Bear Lake

This year, our family decided it was THE year of the..... tent! We went camping with mine and Travis's family and usually we are able to use campers while we are there, but this year, we decided we were old enough to sleep in a TENT!! Scary? Initially, yes. But, after we got it all assembled (with only minimal help) we got our air mattresses and playpen set up and sleeping bags rolled out and we were ready for our first tent experience. And it was fine. Not lovely. Not spectacular. But fine. The kids slept well. No bears attacked. We were all OK. The kids LOVED it!! As we all were laying in our tents on that first night, Gray leaned over and whispered "this is our first time in a tent, mom". They were all so excited. While we were camping in our tent.... we all caught some sort of bug and the 2 youngest Kendalls spent time puking in our tent. All night long. Great. The rest of the kids puked all the way home. Travis and I spent our first 2 days home, puking. Lovely.

We were able to make smores- , my mom had some super cool marshmallow sticks and GIANT marshmallows!! It was a huge hit.

We loved being with our families at Bear Lake. It was such a blast. Thankfully, my younger sister Marie, brought a camera, as I forgot mine. So, thanks to her we have some documentation of the time we spent there. We were able to bring our boat with us to Utah and so we spent as much time as we could on the lake.... but it was FREEZING and choppy-

My younger brother, Ned, brought up his family. His kids have not been on boats before, so we were excited to get them out on the lake. We put my Cami on with Ned and his 2 young daughters on the tube, determined to go slowly so that Neds 2 young girls would have a fun experience. It started out ok... with Travis taking it nice and slow..... but maybe a little too slowly, and the front of the tube started to plow under and everyone fell off the tube. That was it! His girls were screaming and scared all to pieces. Thankfully they were all ok, just wet- but really shook up.

We love our families and it is trips like these that create memories for life. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family. We are looking forward to camping with them AGAIN in a few weeks!!