July 7, 2008

Bear Lake FUN Festivas

We spent the 4th of July at Bear Lake with the Jones extended Family & Friends. The weather was perfect, the company was perfect, the food was perfect, the girls were perfect (do you believe me?). It really was a great trip. We had tons of fun. We ate, played, ate, swam, ate, visited, ate, napped, ate, read, ate... You get the picture. This year we had our new pop-up trailer (thanks mom!). Compared to many years of tent & car camping, our trailer felt like sleeping in a condo- FANTASTIC. We had super weather, no huge wind storms and no rainy nights. The mosquitos were a bit of a pain, but not as bad as the rumors we had heard. Kudos to whomever invented bug spray. The girls had great times riding their 4-wheelers (thanks dad!), until the bitter end (see Bethany's picture below).


Our family in Bear Lake

Our 4th of July cave hike of 888 stairs!


Cousins playing at the beach


Tara (me) & Bethany rippin' up the waves


Uncle Animal & Aunt Mary



Bethany & her new friends


Isabelle and her version of boating


Our 2-year old firecracker- MacKenna


Brett and "his" kids


Aunt Mary, Aunt Laura, Uncle Dave (Jones siblings)

MacKenna & our pop-up condo

FREE Firework Fun Festivas (ask for the story)

Bethany roasting marshmellows for s'mores

Darren "enjoying" his FUN FESTIVAS with FAMILY

Isabelle, our 4-year old, 4-wheelin' maniac


Getting a ticket spoils 4-wheeler fun

9 comments:

Sandie said...

You are so all over it! I can't believe you have already posted. I haven't even uploaded the pics. Thanks for the fun festivas, it wouldn't be the same without you. Oh, and I am officially boycotting the DDC. Seriously!!!

EMPTY NESTERS said...

What's the DDC and who got a 4 wheeler ticket after all the complaining about the neighbors and their kids? Great pictures and we all had a wonderful time. Let's do it again there and at the Kimball reunion. Aunt Laurie

Mary Gardner said...

I know I said I wanted to see that picture of me and Uncle Animal on the ATV on the blog, but geez, could it be any worse???

Enjoyed all of you!

Mary

Levi said...

Long live the DDC!!!! As the current and long standing President of the DDC, I declare the 6th of July to be DDC Day; recognized in all 50 states and 4 territories.

Sommer said...

Looks like fun!!! That's too bad about the ticket, Bethany looks so sad! I know you had a hundred pictures to choose from, I don't know how you did it! Way to be on the ball!
We need to catch up sometime!

jill said...

I love the pictures, it was so much fun, the kids, the cake, the kids, the weather, the kids...yeah I do like them.
Love ya,
Jill H :)

EMPTY NESTERS said...

Someone tell me what the DDC is!!!

Anonymous said...

My mom got on a 4 wheeler??? Why didn't someone call me? I would've flown in (with my four medium-sized children) from California to witness that!!!

Laurie, I'm guessing that the DDC is either a despicable government agency or a medical procedure Sandie performs at work (she's always dropping those fancy schmancy medical terms around us to impress us). :)

Chris and Susan Neff Family said...

Oh, I am SO coveting that pop up trailer.....