Bear Lake

My parents have a house up at Bear Lake and it is one of mine and my kids favorite places to go each summer. They have a boat and wave runners and 4 wheelers, which is probably why it is our favorite place to go. I am a total beach bum and love just sitting on the beach all day while the kids play in the sand. I also love cruising the lake on the boat. This year we were lucky to have some close friends come up with us which made it even more fun. We were also super excited that my niece Laney was staying up their with my parents. She is the most helpful, sweet little girl. My kids adore her, especially Hudson, she thinks Laney is some sort of Queen. And I just love how much she helps me out with my kids. Thanks Laney!!
Here are some fun pics from our trip:

I totally love this picture of Laney and Tate I can't remember what they were laughing about but their expressions are priceless

This is one of the kids favorite things to do - ride on the back of the truck from the beach up to the house

Here is our friends super cute daughter Cambell (like you couldn't figure that one out). She is just three weeks younger then Harper. We are hoping they will be best friends.

Here is Laney on the floating water trampoline.

This was Harper's absolute favorite thing to do. This is a slide attached to the water tramp. She would pull herself up the tramp and slide down the slide. (pretty ambitious - I know). She is 1 1/2 going on 6. Anything Tate can do, she wants to try and do better.

Laney with the girls (she was always helping with the girls) Until the poor thing got the flu and missed out on the last beach day. She was so sick it was sad. During lunch Tate said wait stop eating we need to pray for Laney so that she will get better.

My mom was sweet enough to watch the babies while we headed off to do some serious hiking. Here is the family before we went down in the cave. It was like 400 and some odd stairs up and down. I must admit I was feeling the burn about 10 mins into this hike. I was sure that I was going to have to barter with Tommy to carry me out. Lucky I some how made it on my own.

Here is my friends daughter Tatum. She is so photogenic and she loved me taking her pictures, which is so opposite of Hudson. Side note - our friends have twins whose names are Tatum and Hudson (this is where we got Hudson from). It was the only name that Tommy and I could agree on. But, now we see the error of our ways, it is not so cute when we are all together and we have Tatum and Tate, Hudson and Hudson. Tate wanted to know if he could marry Tatum when he gets big and Hudson could marry Hudson. Call me crazy but I don't think that is going to pan out.

Here is Tommy with his girls clinging for life. Hudson was very scared of the water and Harper was doing whatever Hudson did. She is not scared of the water - in fact the exact opposite. She was constantly testing her limits to see how far out in the water she could go without drowning