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Bear Lake Trip Home

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On Monday the kids were back out at the lake and in addition to the usual swimming and shore playing, they got to go out on the inaugural ride with the GTX inflatable, known as Big Mama. Here are Maddie and Will with Ashton.  One of the uncles (Noah, here) pulls the boat around as fast and wild as they can until you're clinging for dear life. Ashton reached up to get something and he was flipped out into the lake.  He seemed to take it in stride whereas my children would have been scarred by it. Rob took me out for a canoe ride and then Rob, Maddie, Saydi and I went for a swim out to the buoy. It was such a lovely temperature. We had lunch and packed up and cleaned up and said goodbye to the Shumways and started our trip home. This time I wanted to come back through Logan. It was a gorgeous drive through the canyon from Bear Lake to Logan but our car was acting weird and I was nervous we wouldn't make it there. Thankfully we did, and we made it to see the temple whic

Bear Lake cont.

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Sunday we got to attend the Dingle ward. Saydi's mom and dad spoke, which was like winning free tickets to education week (and the best sacrament meeting I've heard in a couple of months). We came home and ate. Oh, we ate so well! I've got several new recipes to try out now. (thanks, Saydi!)  Each evening we brought out the ukelele and tried to play and sing some songs to each other. Here Rob fingered and Charlie strummed -- he's certainly got the soulful singer looks down.  Biscuit and Care Bear -- I'm pretty proud of this one because I got Emmeline into her M&S gingham by suggesting that Care Bear wanted to wear the Hello Kitty nightgown. Those dresses were so darling!  And Joss in his shark shirt is pretty cute too! He has learned how to make the rubik snake into any one of a number of guns. In the absence of the snake he uses his fingers. And of course the iPad helped to entertain as well . . . Wish I'd thought to take pictures inside too;

Bear Lake

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Jeff and Saydi invited us up to Bear Lake to see them after their adventurous six months in London. We met up with them in Park City to caravan and we switched around people until we had two cars: McShums and Waylanders. Everyone behaved so nicely on the trip up -- makes me wish we could always sprinkle in a few cousins on car rides! When we arrived, as we were unpacking things and stowing food, Rob helped Emmeline conquer the spiral staircase. It is steep and metal and I thought that she would be stuck on the first floor for the duration, but she got all the way up, and Rob put one Jelly Belly on each step which was enough to motivate her back down. She had no problem with it the rest of the weekend!  That Bear Lake is almost unreal. It is clear, has a sandy bottom, incredible colors, and while we were there it was 71 degrees. In the water! Essentially a giant inflatable pool.  Maddie got to try out the new paddle board. She'd just learned how a couple of days before with