The rest of our Bear Lake trip...

I'm finally getting around to posting stuff from the rest of our Bear Lake weekend. On Saturday like I said we got up pretty early since it gets light so early and our room was so bright. So we ate our cereal and yogurt that we brought with us and then just kind of hung out in the room for awhile. Then Lars took the boys back to the park while I got ready for the day and by the time they got back and I was ready, it was time for Gunnar to take his morning nap, so I laid him down and read my book for a little while (till I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer) and I napped a little with him. Lars and Ashton walked down to the beach and set up our chairs and umbrella to save our spot for the day, then hung out there while we napped. I have to say that it was so nice that I "had" to stay in the room with Gunnar while he was napping those few times. These days naps are rare for me (and I miss them so much!) so to sit there and read my book till I was too tired and then just get to fall asleep for an hour with no interruptions really made it a vacation for me!
By the time Gunnar woke up, Lars and Ashton were going to meet our friends (Nate and Brianne Hanson & kids) at the front gates of the resort so they could come in and hang out with us for the day.
First a little history about the Hansons...Nate was one of Lars' best friends in high school and also his best man at our wedding and Brianne has become a great friend of mine over the years. They just haven't lived here until last week when they finally moved back to Cache Valley! Nate is actually the new dermatologist at the Budge Clinic, so we have been so looking forward to their return and it's great to have them back! They have 3 little boys (and baby boy #4 on the way), so it will be fun for all of our kids to get to hang out now too.

Anyway they met us for the day and we all hung out on the beach for awhile, then went to lunch before they headed home.

I didn't get any good pictures of the adults, but here are some of the kids playing...

Here are Dax (left), Luke (back facing out) and Ashton and Gunnar...

And here is their youngest (for a couple more months!) Alex with Gunnar. They were both rolling around in this muddy puddle and eating sand.

They will be great buddies!After lunch we came back to our room again Gunnar and I had another nap.
Lars took Ashton miniature golfing at the little course on the resort. He loved it! He wanted to play another game, but they decided to go to the beach again instead.
Then after Gunnar and I woke up we walked down to the beach and met them. The boys had more fun playing in the sand and water and chasing seagulls...And Ashton walked around carrying this little chair bag for a long time saying he was a garbage man as he picked up little pieces of trash to put in it...Gunnar's cute little sandy feet...he had it everywhere you could imagine! ...then we decided to head back to the room and get cleaned up and go find someplace for dinner. We ended up going to Lakeside Pizza and it was pretty good and not very busy. Then after going back to our room for a few minutes we went and got ice cream at the little ice cream store on the resort.

After all what is a vacation without ice cream???

Then it was time to go get ready for bed. The boys slept pretty good again and even slept in till 7:00 that morning. After we got up we got ready and packed up all of our stuff and checked out by 9:00.

Ashton thought it was so fun to be the one to open the door to our room...After we checked out we stopped off for breakfast and then it was time to head home...

Bye-bye Bear Lake!It was such a fun weekend...I think we'll make it a yearly trip now!