A Lake, family, and red white and blue!

For the 4th, we spent 4 days lounging around at beautiful Bear Lake! Three of my sisters and their families joined us up at Kelly's mom's house for a fun filled, relaxing weekend! I was worried about weather issues but we had sunny days, blue skies, puffy clouds and lots of beach time! The thing I love about Bear Lake is the fact that the kids can spend all day in the sand and be happy. We don't even have to go to CA for that (which we plan on doing next month) and it's only two hours away! This was the first of many weekends to come up there and we are already looking forward to going back for a family reunion at the end of the month! Here are the highlights!!!

• Watching the kids, both big and tiny, playing non stop in the sand, finding shells and rocks, and digging waterways!

• Watching Andy take Brendon down in the cold lake water!

• Watching Kelly get into his wet suit for a mile swim in the lake! (Triathlon in 3 weeks!!!!)

• Eating milk shakes from town, a MUST! Finding a new flavor or two: mint, chocolate chip, Oreo, malt shake (Kelly's creation) and Snickers, marshmallow, malt (Em's creation). "Hometown Burgers and Shakes" makes the best shakes! (In case you are troubled by all the choices of shake joints there and can't decide!)

• Singing around the fire pit while roasting marshmallows, playing with sparklers, and watching fireworks go off over the lake.

• Movie marathon until 2:30 A.M.!!!

• Adult time-Scategories, talking, and lots of laughs!