July Trip

Bear Lake Cabin 2012

We left Sat morning to go up to our cousin Ammon's Baptism (well all of us but dad).  Preston and him are the same age, and love to hang out.  They both have so much in common.  We were so proud of Ammon, and were so excited to see the family.  After some dinner with the family we headed up to Bear Lake to hang out with the Eves family.  My bother Matt is the Golf Pro at a golf course up there.  So there little family moved up to Montpelier Idaho.  We were so excited to see everyone that night.  We stayed up way to late hanging out with our long lost buds.  The next day; Sunday we woke up and went to church, then played around the cabin all day with the cousins.  That evening we went over to see Matt at his course.  We drove around and saw all the improvements he had made.  It was beautiful. 

The next day we woke up and headed over to the Ranch Hand Inn for there Yummy breakfast.  They have the biggest pancakes ever.  We order one then divide it up between all the kids.  After that we headed over to the lake.  Aunt Marci, had to work, and the house she cleans has a private beach.  So while she worked, I watched all the kids at the beach.  They had so much fun playing in the sand, and trying to build sandcastles.  They also spent hours on the swing set there as well.  They were very hungry and tired when we were through.  We then went to eat at a little Mexican place the family has grown to love.  It was really good.  The Salsa was really good.  We ended the night with a trip over to the gold course again.  The kids loved to pick up range balls. 

The next morning we headed back over to the course to say goodbye,and get a lunch to eat, before we headed back down to Centerville.  The children's parade starts around 6:30 the night before the 4th.  It has become a tradition.  All the kids love to decorate their mode of transportation for the night.  The parade has hundreds of kids, and it lasts 10 minutes.  At the end they get a Popsicle.  which the kids all love.  We then headed back to grandma's to get out of the heat and eat some pizza for dinner.  Then it was off to the fireworks.  We also love this tradition.  Centerville does their fireworks the night before the 4th as well...so they don't have to compete with the bigger cities.  They had a great show this year.  We loved it.  The next morning we were off to the parade.  We got so much candy, and the kids had a blast being with there cousins, and seeing the cool floats.  After the parade we headed back to Grandpa and Grandma Monson's for a BBQ, and then we hit the road to try and make it back to see our dad before he left for work, and to also watch Hurricane's fireworks.  Well, we made it back in great time, but we found out the fireworks had been canceled.  Oh well, we at least got to come home to our dad.  Boy, I sure missed him.