Bear Lake

One of our favorite places on Earth is Bear Lake. We love that we live closer to Bear Lake than we did when in Syracuse. We got the opportunity to go to Bear Lake twice this weekend. It would have been nice if we would have planned it better and spent the night Friday but we had fun even though we drove up three times. The last time was because Zack's new swim shirt accidentally got left on the roof of the car and he drove back up there late Saturday night to retrieve it. What a good guy.

Anyway, we ordered new swim shirts and when I told Zack they had arrived he suggested we take a drive and go to the lake to test them out. It worked out well because he got off work before 6 Friday night, so we made it to the lake about 7, swam for about an hour then came home. Quick trip, and it was cold but so much fun. We only took three photos Friday night and they were just of Zack and I but, I love the photos we did take.

Saturday afternoon we wanted to go swimming somewhere but couldn't make up our minds where to go. We knew things would be busy wherever we went but decided to head to Bear Lake anyway. We waited until about 3:30 to leave and got to the lake a bit before 5. We weren't there all day but we arrived when a lot of people were packing up to go home or had left not to long before. We got a great spot on the South Beach, put up our new umbrella and beach mat to test them before California and then let Warren play in the sand for a bit while we relaxed in the shade. We then played in the water for over an hour and really enjoyed finding shells, rocks, relaxing, floating, and swimming. We ended up leaving the lake close to 8 when the clouds started to cover the sun, similar to Friday night. By then there were not very many people at the lake. On Saturday Warren worked on passing off one of his summer badges. He has different tasks to complete to earn badges similar to scouting, and swimming was one of them. He completed part by passing off his level C swimming lessons but he passed of his other requirements to swim longer distances Saturday at the lake.

Mommy and Warren

Our little family.

These two are best buddies.

Always working together on something.

Warren loved this little pool he found on a sandbar.

Examining some cool rock or shell that Warren found.

Warren chilling in his "relaxing pool" that he made.

I love my new swim shirt, it is long sleeved and it is tunic length. Even with it being super sunny, none of us got sunburns and we didn't have to apply sunscreen everywhere.

Our little merman, he wanted to be buried and he did most of the work himself. Zack just added some sand to his back to help him sit up better.

It was a great weekend, spent as a family, not perfect, but the good times are what I remember. We love Bear Lake and I am grateful we could spend several hours there over the last few days swimming and enjoying each other and the lake and all its beauty.