I am SOOOOOO behind on this blog. When I started my other blog, my biggest goal was to make sure that I didn’t get behind on this blog. But, after our vacation, I realized that I had a lot of posts to catch up on. So, I didn’t catch. It knew it would take me hours that I didn’t have. Well, the more I procrastinated, the more behind I got. So, here we are, all the way at the end of October. I haven’t blogged here for 3 months (a new record! – not that it’s something to brag about). I’m making it a goal to get completely caught up as quickly as I can. If you are bored by all of the posts that happened months ago, sorry! I want to eventually turn this blog into a family book/journal, so I don’t really want to skip anything.
Okay…here we go. Way back in July after we took our family vacation. We are so blessed to have kids that do so well driving in the car. We seem to be able to drive them just about anywhere and they love it! Not only that, but during the other times of the year, they ask when we are going to go on another road trip. And it’s the driving they like the most. A small part of me can’t wait until they get a little older and can drive farther distances (not that they can’t handle a pretty far drive as it is). Anyway…so our family vacation.
We started out on one of our many trips this year to Bear Lake visiting Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Frank. They traveled over from Oregon to look for a cabin. They rented a condo practically on the beach. It was our very first time going to Bear Lake, and it is beautiful! It’s called the “Caribbean of the Rockies” because the lake water is absolutely beautiful!
Pictures really don’t do it justice. It’s so pretty!
So, here are some of the things we did while at Bear Lake for a few days.
The Oregon Trail Museum:
Montpelier is about 1/2 hour north of Bear Lake. It is a really small town. Probably a little bigger than Rigby, but not much. It has a few gas stations and grocery stores. And, it has the The National Oregon/California Trail Center. We thought it would be fun to take the kids to it.
Poor Logan was so tired that day! It was back in his nap-taking days. I miss those days….. I thought the monkey backpack he was wearing was so funny in this picture.
The Park:
After visiting the museum, we took all of the kids to lunch then to the park. They all needed a few minutes to use up their energy!
The park was hosting some kind of car show. It wasn't all that great, but there was one really awesome part. Our kids got to meet Bumblebee (from Transformers!). Okay….not the real Bumblebee. But, the car owner apparently worked security on the set of Transformers. He replicated the car and had lots of fun movie memorabilia on display.
I couldn’t believe the owner let all of our kids inside the car! He took quite a few pictures to add to his collection. He said that he had never had some many people (kids?) in it at the same time!
At the Condo:
There was plenty to do at the Condo, too. There was a swimming pool that the kids took full advantage of. Thankfully, Dave and Chris offered to supervise in the cold water. I don’t know how kids don’t ever seem to mind swimming in cold water!
We also had a fun barbecue on the deck after swimming.
I think the kid’s favorite part was the bedroom of bunk beds! They created a kid fort dream with all of the extra blankets! Then, they all snuggled up and watched movies until they *finally* went to sleep!
Bear Lake was such a fun way to start an incredibly memorable trip! Thank you Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Frank for inviting us!
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