Huntington Lake 2020

We have loved our trips to Huntington, this year was no different! The first day we got there Matts brother Spencer was there with his little boat that he built. A couple people went out for a ride.

It is so nice for the kids to get to be together doing the things that they love!

Really the love just being together.

This was the first year we walked around the lake. I think it was about 3 miles, all the kids did great. We did end up with Viv on our shoulders toward the end of the walk.

We always enjoy the amazing sunset at Huntington.

On our walk Wesley and Colton picked up a baby bird. Unfortunately we didn't realize they had it until we were already back and they couldn't remember exactly where they picked it up, so we couldn't take it back. We put it back where they think they found it. We are going to say the mom found it and it is doing well.

These kids really could live on the water! Bensen, Vivian, and Branson loved the tube this year!

We drove into town to this cute little restaurant I don't remember the name, but it was good.

Wes caught a crawdad.

The guys all went Golfing. Mike says it was fun, and it looks like the coarse was a little tricky.

We had a great time, I'm grateful I get to spend time with my family.

Happy Birthday Jaycee!

We started celebrating on Sunday with Mike's family.

When we got home I was in my office and looked out my window and saw sweet Viv out saying prayer. How sweet is she?

We started the day off with opening present!

Jaycee wanted to go boating with her cousins, but it was too cold this weekend. So we went to Joys heated pool instead.

Later that night she had some of her friends from Highmark come over and play games.

Her friends decided to walk home at the end of the night, I felt bad that they were walking, so we chased them down and walked them home. I didn't know where they lived, we ended up walking all the way over to Cosher Hill. I would have felt terrible had I let them walk home. They had no idea where they were going. I would have been mad had Jaycee tried to walk home from one of their houses that late with just one other person. What were they thinking?

It is hard to believe that Jaycee is a teenager! She loves being in the water doing anything, she is the first one in and last one out, no matter where we go. She likes to play soccer and basketball. She works so hard at school, and has good grades. She likes playing night games and watching movies with her cousins. She is the best big sister and takes care of everybody. 

A couple of days after her birthday she had her friends that go to Sunset come over to play night games. It was nice for her to be able see them, the hardest part about going to Highmark was not being with a lot of her friends. 

I think she had a great birthday!

Summer Hair

Remember when I melted my hair in Bear Lake? Well it was time to cut it, I was ready for a change, and it is summer, so why not?

Mike got a haircut too, doesn't he look handsome? We are both much lighter!

 

More Fun

Guess where we went this weekend? Bear Lake! We are thinking about moving...just kidding, but sometimes it feels like it.

We stopped in Logan, we went and saw Josh at work. He let me put some of my earring at his store. It was fun to see them on display.

Jaycee begs to go to Old Grist Mill, it is right next to the Logan Outlet so we went and grabbed some lunch then went to a park for a little picnic with Emily.

After our picnic she took us on a hike! I think it was the Bonneville Shoreline trail. It started out pretty steep, but then leveled off. Viv ran the steep incline and then was done for the rest of the hike.

Poor Viv, she gets so red!

It was a fun hike, we would totally do it again!

After the hike we headed up to Bear Lake, we were the first ones up there so we decided to go to the lake, we went and explored the east side.

We headed back to the cabin around the time everyone else was getting there. The girls played some games with Grandma and the boys played outside.

There was also some working going on, but I didn't take any pictures of that.😊

Remember how I talked about the tick a couple of post ago? Well, Mike got a tick this trip! We tried covering it in Neosporin, then I ended up pulling it out with some tweezers. Which we sanitized afterward. The tweezers did the trick, then Trevor tried squishing it with his fingers, we read right after he did that that you should never try to squish them. Anyway I ended taking it outside and killing it with a rock, and it wasn't easy! Tuff little buggers!

More Bear Lake

Once or twice a year we have to pick up a lot of pine needles. During the week we spent some time cleaning them up!

Then on Thursday, it was back to Bear Lake.

This year besides the tick we found last time, there are a ton of caterpillars.

They kept the kids busy for a long time!

Sanding logs with safety glasses sucked! This time we came prepared with some goggles, they worked much better! I know the picture of me sucks, but I had to document that I was there, I am never in the pictures, because I take them. Mike loves to take the most flattering pictures of me.

They had a neighbor complain about the dyers woad, so we spent some time trying to pull it out. They worked really hard! They heard (from the complaining neighbor) that if they took bags of it to some building in Summit county they would get money for every bag. They did like 10 bags unfortunately it was still everywhere, and we didn't go home the right way and it would have been closed because or the weekend. But they worked so hard they earned some ice cream!

The kids begged for some lake time, so after lunch we went to the lake.

The water was obviously freezing! But that didn't stop some of them.

On our way home we stopped and got shakes for all our hard work and patience on the kids part. They are pretty good sports about coming and helping.

Then on Sunday we enjoyed some home church. We love home church. 

Later we went for a walk and Viv tried to ride her bike. She doesn't love it. I keep telling her if we take her training wheels off she would like it more. Soon hopefully.