Bear Lake 2010

For those of you who don't know my Clark family very well you need to understand something. Clarks and Glovers do not spend much money. Let alone on leisure. This year we decided to spend our reunion time at Bear Lake instead of my mom's house for the Payson Onion Day celebration over Labor Day. We used to all squeeze into my Mom's house (some of us would sleep in tents in the backyard these past few years) because we are all married and have a lot of people there. We would go to the parade, booths and enjoy our hometown celebration. It has always been a fun tradition.

This year we branched out A LOT and sprung for a rental house right by the lake. We had a seven bedrooom/three bath/huge kitchen/enormous deck/ping pong room house for 3 nights. The huge yard had a trampoline, fire pit and a gorgeous view of the lake. I have loved the labor day celebration and camping traditions but who am I foolin'? This was waaaaayyyy better. We all had our own bedrooms for privacy and a huge kitchen so we could all cook together. I'm pretty sure we'll never go back to our old get together. My mom kept prompting the grand kids with questions like this, "Do you like this house? Do you like the lake? Do you think we should come back here next year? Do you think we should stay here longer next year?"
Do you think she liked it? Your secret's out Grandma Clark!


Our kids wasted no time breaking in the trampoline. Uncle Patrick sure enjoyed springing the children's tooshies from underneath.

Patrick and Sara picked the Theme "Battle of the Sexes". Here we are playing the game of the same name. I'm pretty sure you can imagine how much laughing and competition was stuffed into this kitchen. We didn't get to finish the game so it is still undecided if Men or Women rule.

Jeff and Morgan are channeling their inner-woman.

We had a great night at the fire pit with singing and popcorn. Well, the popcorn wasn't that great but it was sure fun trying to get it to pop without starting on fire.

Here we are all enjoying the movie "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". You should've heard Grandpa chuckling.

Our kids couldn't wait to get to the lake. They quickly realized the lake was too shallow and would not be good for fishing. They enjoyed playing in the sand for a few hours before bed time though.

We have been working with Caleb in physical therapy for a few months and who would've known that mini M&Ms were the trick to help him pull to stand.

Throwing blocks off the deck to Uncle Patrick was a great motivator too.

Grandma brought the funnest crafts for the kids. She got more than she bargained for in Kyle though. That kid is turning into such an artist and the bead animal crafts kept him (and Grandma) very occupied.

This is the view from the Deck. AAAAAHHHHhhhhhhhhhh

Uncle Morgan brought plenty of yard games and our boys were in heaven. Josh loved the game until the last day when we were playing in the wind. He was so frustrated that the birdie was UN-controllable. Where do these boys get there competitiveness? (One guess is the stud in the orange shirt!)

I'll work on posting the pictures from our lake day later. I've had enough for now.

Summer Activities

For some reason blog spot is not showing the pictures when I download them. It is just showing the mumble jumble of words and characters that computer engineers understand. I don't understand where to put the text between the pictures or how to arrange the order. I'll just write a synopsis of all the pictures up here and you can decide which pictures they go to. Some of the pictures we took on a day trip to BYU. We saw the paleontology, bean and art museums. Katherine was very nervous standing by the big stuffed bear. If you look closely at the picture of the kids in front of the sprinkler sculpture you can see Katherine's favorite funny face---crossed eyes.
We visited our cousins in Logan over Savannah's birthday. We played at a splash park and had a cool birthday cake made out of doughnuts. Victoria found out the hard way why you shouldn't run into Joshua's head. They crashed into eachother playing and she knocked out one tooth, loosened another and bled quite a bit. You can see the evidence of her fat lip. I felt so bad for her. She was very good about it and didn't complain hardly at all. If Josh had the same injury I'd lose my mind with all of the whining and complaining. Go Toria!!! We celebrated the 24th with fireworks too.
Joshua earned his bear months ago but because of baseball in the early summer we couldn't make it to any pack meetings. I was so proud of him and can't wait to see how he enjoys webelos.
The picture of Katie and I Jeff snapped when we were having an argument about bed time. Katie would say "ONE BOOK" and I'd say "GO TO BED" over and over again. She thought it was hilarious.
The picture of the ping pong table is from a day we spent in Payson helping Grandma with her yard. She needed a lot of top soil shoveled into the sprinkler trenches and had asked the young men to come over and help. Joshua was mesmerized by the older boys and spent the entire afternoon observing them. He also worked for hours along side them and earned 25 bucks from grandma. Woo Hooo!