Bear Lake Camping Take 2

So like I said, we did all our summer camping two weekends in a row. The second we went with our good family friends, The Arnells. It had been two years since we had last camped with them so we were due for a trip. We wanted to leave Thursday night so we could have all day Friday and Saturday up at Bear Lake. Nolan was working all day Thursday so I had to load up his truck, four wheeler and all. I was so proud of myself. I did have Gary come over and help me tie everything down. The last thing I want is for the four wheeler to fly out while I'm by myself on the highway (Toni, you know what I'm talking about ;)). We had such a blast, and this weekend was much better than the last. Lauren and Riley came up on Friday and met us again. We went to the lake both Friday and Saturday. On Saturday we spent the whole day tubing. I am such a freaking chicken on that thing. My voice was hoarse screaming at Riley cause he was going too fast, only to find out he was going faster when Caden was by himself. On Friday, Kadrie was really sick with a nasty cold and all she wanted to do was sleep and be held. You can see how miserable she was in the picture with me. I know I am going to sound like a bad mom, but I love when my kids are sick. I love how cuddly they are. I actually don't mind my kids being sick, in fact, sometimes I want to make them sick just so they will be all cuddly. Ok so not really, but you know what I mean. We always have so much fun camping with the Arnells, and the kids get a long so well. Plus you can't beat Gary's BBQ chicken and Nanette's potato salad. And of course my famous watermelon brownies :). Ok, so they aren't famous, but they should be. They are awesome.

Bear Lake Camping

Since this summer I ended up working full time, so that the other hygienist could be on maternity leave, we didn't do any camping. So at the end of August we decided to get it all in. We ended up camping two weekends in a row. We sold our camper in February and so we resorted back to good ol' tent camping, with an air mattress, of course! We love Bear Lake and for the last few summers that is where we end up camping. It's great because at night and in the morning you get to be in the mountains doing the whole camping thing, and then in the afternoon we head down to the gorgeous lake. The first weekend our good friends, Lauren and Riley came up. Riley even brought his boat. Unfortunately, the weather was not so pleasant and the first morning we woke up to pouring rain. It did eventually taper off, but it was definitely not boat weather. We still had a lot of fun anyway. I was not about to get up and cook breakfast in the rain, so we went to Plan B, the nearest restraurant. Saturday was my birthday, and anyone who knows me well knows that my favorite part of my birthday is the cake and candles. Nolan seems to struggle at remembering this every year, but to his credit he kept mentioning how he was trying to figure out how to bring up a birthday cake(he had a big reminder on the calendar). Well he didn't bring one up so I decided to try to cook brownies in a watermelon as my birthday cake. We went out and bought brownie mix and stuff(we already had the watermelon), and while I was mixing up the brownies, Lauren surprised me with a birthday cake she had brought up from home. What a great friend. She didn't trust Nolan to remember. We still made the brownies and they were awesome. Watermelon Brownies, who would have thought. So even though the weather didn't cooperate we still had a blast. Lauren and Riley are always fun to be around. Kadrie especially loves Riley. She told Lauren she was going to marry him when she is done being a princess, and then asked Lauren if that made her mad. She is so funny. Caden, of course, loves the dirt part of camping and destroying anything. He found an old ax in the river and spent the weekend trying to chop down a tree. He never succeeded, but I never heard he was bored. Bronco also kept busy chasing his own splash in the river.