Bear Lake 2010

It's August and that means Bear Lake time! The kids are getting bigger and more independent and wanted to go go go, we spent hours at the play ground. Grace wanted to dig in the dirt and I kept being a mean mom and saying no. She did it anyway, surprise.

Each year we try and take a picture of the grand kids together - and each year it gets harder to keep my kids still long enough to look at the camera....

The picture with Grace stealing Tylor's hat, I've never seen two boys react so fast - she knows just how to tease them!

Max, Travis, Grace, Tylor & Daisy.

I think this is the only picture I got of Max smiling AT the camera the whole time.This is possibly the saddest face I've ever seen - she was running barefoot and Max stepped on her toe and turned with shoes on. He didn't mean to, and anyone within 100 feet would have thought she lost a toe. I'm sure it hurt, he broke skin but she had one heck of a melt down.

It was colder than usual at Bear Lake, typically we have one storm that rolls through and the rest of the days are nice and sunny, but this week the high temperature was only 77, and it was windy most of the time. Mikes family rented Jet Skis on Friday and we had a beach day, it wasn't the warmest of beach days, but we still had fun!

Seriously, Max could play on the beach for days. Grace was such a little pill - she was scared of the pool, she would get in and cried and cried, but she jumped off the boat into the middle of Bear Lake...hmm. I don't know- she's crazy. And it took her forever to start playing in the sand on the beach day, I said "Grace, you've wanted to dig at the park for days, why aren't you digging now?" The answer - because she's Grace!

By the time we were done at the beach it was everything Max could do to stay awake, I thought he'd fall asleep once we got to the condo but he fought it so hard. Mike and I took the kids for a little car ride and he fell asleep at 6:15, I knew it was going to be a long, long night. I told Mike he had to get up with him at 2 in the morning, but little Max was so tired he didn't wake up until 7 the next day! That NEVER happens at my house!

My favorite part of Bear Lake was watching the kids on the boat, and I didn't get any pictures of it. They each love to drive the boat with Grandpa, Grace is crazy and drives turning the wheel back and forth constantly, the whole time trying to show off for everyone on the boat. Max is very serious, he holds the wheel just like grandpa and can not be bothered to look at anyone else while he's driving.

Such fun times!