BEAR LAKE PART I

MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6th

 IT WOULDN'T BE A BEAR LAKE TRIP AT THE KOA CAMP GROUND

IF THE KIDS DIDN'T RIDE THE WAGON

OUR CAMP SITE 

ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS

 OOPS PAPA, YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO EAT THE

MARSHMALLOWS NOT WEAR THEM

TUESDAY, JULY 7th 

TUESDAY MORNING AT THE NORTH STATE PARK BEACH IN IDAHO

JAY AND NATALIE ON THEIR PADDLE BOARDS

 LOGAN, SYDNEY AND STRIDER ON THE PADDLE BOARD

 

 BY AFTERNOON THE STORM CLOUDS CAME IN.  WE GOT

BACK TO CAMP AND WEATHERED OUT THE STORM.

IT WAS NOT TOO BAD, THE KIDS PLAYED GAMES

OUTSIDE OF OUR TRAILERS.

 LOGAN, SYDNEY AND STRIDER EVEN WENT SWIMMING

STRIDER SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE SWIMMING

POOL WHEN WE WERE AT THE CAMP

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8th

IT RAINED!  WE WENT TO LOGAN AND VISITED UTAH STATE
(NATALIE'S ALMA MATER)

AND THEN WE WENT TO SAM'S CLUB FOR A LUNCH

IT WAS NOT RAINING BUT STILL OVERCAST WHEN WE

GOT BACK TO CAMP.  THE OLDER KIDS RODE THEIR
BIKES AND STRIDER WENT SWIMMING

A VIEW OF THE LAKE AT THE

TOP OF THE CANYON

A SPLASH PAD JUST DOWN THE STREET!

 THEY WERE STILL INSTALLING SOME LARGE BOULDERS

WHEN WE WERE THERE.  GRADY, STRIDER AND I

WATCHED THEM MEASURE HOW HIGH THE

WATER SHOULD SPRAY UP

 

  (This is the area where the boys played until the workder's roped it off to lay down the boulders)

 IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO BE THE FIRST TO TRY OUT SOMETHING NEW!

 

 

THE STRONG KIDS ARE VISITING WHILE THEIR

MOM IS WORKING AT THE HOSPITAL 

ROLLER DERBY QUEEN

MADAM SHANNON

RAISED GARDENS

 JOHN IS BUILDING RAISED GARDENS FOR MY VEGETABLES

DRESDEN IS HELPING HIM BUILD THEM

 JAY AND COLLIN STOPPED BY

COLLIN HELPED PAPA  JOHN FOR A WHILE

 BABYSITTING THE STRONG KIDS FOR A WHILE

STRIDER CAME OVER TO VISIT

 ANOTHER DAY ON THE JOB FOR DRESDEN

CAMPING WITH FRIENDS

 LOGAN'S LAST SOCCER GAME FOR THE SEASON

 

 GRADY PLAYING DOCTOR - HE WAS BORED WITHOUT STRIDER

 SPENDING A COUPLE OF DAYS WITH GOOD FRIENDS

VARDEL & MIKE REECE

PAUL & MARY WALKER

  BLACK HAWK CAMP GROUND, UP PAYSON CANYON

PAUL WALKER IS THE CAMP HOST

 

 HOW MANY MEN DOES IT TAKE TO FIGURE OUT

HOW THE REFRIGERATOR WORKS?

PAYSON LAKE

VERY FRIENDLY CHIPMUNKS AND SQUIRRELS 

 FISHING AT THE LAKE

 IT WAS COLD AND RAINY PART OF THE TIME.

I WAS VERY HAPPY TO HAVE MY BEAUTIFUL PROWLER

MIKE AND VARDEL