Bear Lake!!

For our vacation this year, we went back to Bear Lake with Shane & Allyson and Lon & Rebecca. For those of you reading and remember our trip last year, I have to say that this year was much more successful. We had such a blast. What a difference a working boat makes!! Shane and Ally got a new tube and most of our time was spent on it.

We had to work pretty hard to get the guys off it.....

And sometimes we were successful.

But lest you think it was just the guys having fun....

We even took the babies along for a short ride. 2 of the 3 really liked it.

Whenever Sam was wearing a life jacket, he was extremely calm and docile--almost catatonic. I think I may consider him wearing it full time.

We did some wake boarding and water skiing (when I say "we" I mean them. I don't even try)

The only tragedy of the trip was when Shane was pulling Lon, Nick and me on the tube and was doing his darnedest to take us out. Going around a turn, there was a little too much slack in the rope and we could tell that it was going to give us quite a pull when it straightened out. Well, Shane gunned it and I closed my eyes waiting for the whiplash. Next thing I know Nick and Lon have both flipped out of the tube and I am sitting there by myself and the tube is not moving. Nick asks if the rope broke, but once Shane comes back to get us, he informs us that the back of the boat ripped off. Yikes!! Seth was on the boat and a little concerned because Shane is "crazy". Luckily we were able to use good old duct tape to patch the hole and buy a new rope to hook on to a different place on the boat and we kept on going.

Sam doesn't seem to care much for the water and this was about the only time he was in it willingly.

However, Seth is a little fish and loved to go swimming!

And for all of you who have ever doubted that I am a princess, here is proof. This is where we stayed. This belongs to a friend of Shane and he was nice enough to let us rent it for a few days. Nice beach front place with a private beach and a rhino to drive down to the water. It used to be that they could jump off the deck into the water, but it has receded quite a bit. Here is the front and back view.

We had such a great time and we hope that we can make this a yearly tradition!