Saturday, August 11, 2007

Wild Week

The Mom

Wow, what a week we have all had. Kyle has also had much going on with ending his internship and heading off to Europe. Kyle is seen diving off a 20 foot boardwalk off Coney island. This family doesn't sit still for very long that is for sure.


We started last Thursday, Aug 2, off with a little putting game action with G&G, then Fink, then a John Wayne movie. Does it get better than that?











Thank you all for helping me to live my dream at Bear Lake. Each day had a personality of it's own. Saturday was the Baptism theme for Jackson. Then Ronda brought up the spaghetti dinner to the Priest cabin at Bear Lake and we had usn's and the Cory Marler family. Since this was the only time Cory would be up to BL, he made hay and got all the four wheelers going and the wave runner. Matt drove while I played flag girl (actually could only hang on for dear life) and we finally did get Cory up as he would jump off the dock so it could get enough power to pull him out. Michael brought Brooklyn (main squeeze) up as well. We had 6 hours or so of true excitement as we realized that Scott is selling his "cabin" and perhaps we could buy it for the family cabin. Then reality hit, but it was still fun to think about it for a period of time.

Sunday was fun to go to church and have our own back at the "cabin". Games and cards of course. Lots of great food including the natural BL staples of watermelon, cantaloupe, corn on the cob. Everyone took their assignments for the meal on Sunday and we had a meal extraordinaire. Cory, Ronda, Michael and Jackson left Sunday morning, but we were still able to hang on to Shaylee and Ben. The day was topped off with a nice 2 1/2 hour walk with Brynley til 1:30 AM.


Monday was my dream day. I was soooo surprised to have everyone (except Kyle- dang) be at Bear Lake at the same time on a beautiful SUNNY day with wonderful beautiful water with a temp that even I can get used to. We rented a boat and everyone got up on skis or board of choice that wanted to. Abby, Spencer and Dad still enjoyed the boating part. Well, at least Spencer had to let it grow on him before he thought it was that cool. We had friends up on the beach, with rafting, wave running, four wheeling, kayaking etc. including McOmbers, Rasmussens, JohnJack, Hillyards, Ronda, Jackson and Jaxson, Ben & Shaylee etc. There was a little bit of a panic when Troy called to see if we had Micah Rasmussen on the boat. Of course his mother overheard and began (as any mother would) to panic. Turns out that Micah had dropped the paddle of the kayak, reached out, fallen in and the BL wind had picked up the kayak and taken it too far to swim to. Thank goodness he had a life jacket on since he bobbed out in the lake for an hour before his g'ma noticed he was missing. In the midst of the panic, I jumped in the water to move the boat out and baptised my cell phone. We recovered the kayak about a half mile away from where Micah was retrieved. Linda thinks that due to the boy from Viewmont drowning at BL just that weekend, Micah thought to put on a life jacket. Ok guys....lesson learned here. Wear a life jacket when going over your head....including gmas who ride on rafts behind wave runners. These are pictures of Troy and Bryn behind the boat. I don't have the patience to put more pics on the blog. I'll post them later on the web. Thanks to G'ma for providing the wonderful steak cooked to perfection by Mathew. We had a fantastic barbecue and dinner on the deck enjoyed by all. To me, it was a perfect day! I will never forget it. That's our Bear Lake. We all love it!!! Thanks for being the most wonderful family ever. I love you all.
Mom






























































































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