Bear Lake 2008

We were able to go on a "vacation" a.k.a "relocation" to Bear Lake this month. We call it a relocation becuase it really isn't a vacation with 6 kids! We had an awesome time though. It really was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy.
Marty's parents rent a house up there for the week and everyone goes up for what ever time they can. It was really nice for all the cousins to get to play together and have one last "blast' before school started the next week.
We had fun playing down at the beach, making sand castles, chasing seagulls, getting some sun, and just getting sandy! Our car will never be clean from all the sand. The water is perfect for the kids to play in, it stays shallow forever.
My brother-in-law Seth brought up their boat and he patiently took all the kids out for rides on the tube. He even took me, Marie (my mother-in-law),and Janna and Mandy (my sister-in-laws) out for a girls water skiing trip. It was pretty hilarious. We are all a little high-maintenance,"Could you put my ski on?", "Could you put my gloves on?","Oh, and I need the easy up rope too!", "I can't jump in it's too cold!" Seriously that water is freezing; it took my breath away, literally. It makes you have to pee it's so cold which actually warms you up for a second! Seth survived us. It's a good thing he is so laid back otherwise I am sure we would have been thrown overboard and left to swim to shore! We had a good time. I felt like Bill Murray in What About Bob. "I sail!" "Ahoy, I sail!", "I'm sailing!", "I sailed!" Only it was, "I ski.", "I'm skiing.", "I skied!" Marty got to go out and ski too, although he was afraid of doing anything that might "wear him out" for his half-marathon he was running that weekend.
It was a great vacation. Everyone got along. We have some really fun memories. I had a hard time picking picutres for the post so I made a slide show. I'm not so smart with the computer, so it's in a different post. I don't know how these things work!