Family Vacation at Bear Lake

Instead of going to the Christmas cabin past year, Duane and Julie booked a cabin for the family at Bear Lake instead.  Typically we rent a condo at Ideal Beach at Sweetwater.  But we did a cabin on the golf course, just across from Ideal Beach instead.  This place holds SO many wonderful memories for the Higginson family.  We've been coming here for like about 35 years.  Year after year.  We've only just stopped coming consistently the last 10 years or so.  The little kids got to see how great this place is and why we all love it so much. 

We lined the kids up in order of age.  Its funny to see the height differences!

The boys went golfing and us girls watched them,(and took these pictures) right from our front deck of the cabin.

Ideal Beach had water trampolines to rent.  Some people had rented this one and weren't using it at the moment so Jeff decided he was going to go jump on it.  OH MY GOSH if you only could have seen him in real life!  It was hilarious!!!!

He got jumping real big and high and dove down on the slide to head into the water --- only problem was that he got STUCK on the slide!  It was the funniest thing ever!

JD dug a great big hole and decided to stick the younger kids down in it and bury them.

They were pretty much standing upright in the hole.  It was seriously a big hole.  They all kind of panicked in the hole too because the weight and pressure of the sand made it harder to breath.  None of them liked it while they were in the hole, yet everyone wanted a turn!

One of my childhood/adulthood BFF's surprised us by showing up on the beach and hanging out with us.  Her family was in from Delaware.  Kristin and her family had grown up going to Bear Lake with us for the past 35+ years so it was just like old times having her there!

After we realized how funny it was to watch Jeff on the trampoline, we decided to rent one ourselves.  We had a ton of fun on it.

At night after everyone was exhausted from the day on the lake, we would have dinner and watch movies.  I can't get over how much Jens and Katelyn look alike.  Their profiles are totally the same!  Same nose, same lips, same eye shape, same chin..... They could be siblings.

Chase, Gunner & Cade spent SO MUCH TIME trying to build this sandcastle.  Little Gustin and Canyon were little devilish destroyers and kept knocking it down before they could ever finish it.  Thankfully the boys were able to finish it before one of the little boys died! 

It was a great trip!  One for the memory books!