Another Bear Lake trip and sad news...

My family planned a little get away to Bear Lake this past weekend. Most of them headed up Thursday and since I worked Thursday I didn't make it up until Friday. Cody had work all weekend so he stayed home this trip. We played at the park Friday when I got there then headed back up to our campsite near St. Charles. Friday night we had to go back into town to meet my brother and his family so while we waited we hit the public swimming pool, walked around the park again then met Jordan and his cute family at the Bear Lake Pizza Co. for dinner. It was delish! After dinner, we drove back up to camp and got a fire started. My brothers always have the BEST camp fires! Must be the Native American in us.. ;) With a little help from my brother Jed we got to practice target shooting with his bow (which is extremely HARD btw)! I even closed my eyes as I shot it, ha ha! Good thing he was behind me aiming it so I didn't kill someone!

Hailee and I trying to squeeze our bums into the baby swings... ummm fail.

Cute uncle Tanner with Graci

Jed playing with his sweet girls!


Brooky was NOT happy to leave the swings..


Sitting around the campfire, making smores! Hailee with Chloe and Bella, aren't they the cutest?! Also sweet Grandpa Thomas in the background :)

Jord and Holly!

Saturday we got up, cooked breakfast, packed our lunches and headed down to the Lake where my mom had rented a waverunner for the day. We picked it up and my little brother Tanner and I drove it down to the beach where the rest of the family was. We played all day on it and had a BLAST!! Thank you mom for everything you do for us!!! I didn't get any pics of Saturday.. we were havin' too much fun :)

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I got a call Saturday afternoon from Cody with some really sad news. My in-laws dog Trigger who was not even 6 years old had been swimming with family (and our pup Duke) in their swimming pool all day. Any of you who knows Trigger knows that he was an excellent swimmer and diver and basically lived in the pool all Summer long. Swimming was definitely his favorite thing to do, he was a little fish! Anyway, he had dived in after one of his toys.. which he did ALL the time and he happened to come up right under a mat that was in the pool. It was literally 30 seconds before they realized that he hadn't come up yet and by the time my father in law had jumped in to get him... it was too late. We lost our sweet little Trig Saturday and I can't even tell you how awful it is. He was just as much part of our family as anyone. He was just a brand new puppy when Cody and I started dating, he's been around as long as I have and he will be sooo missed. We love you buddy and will MISS you!!!


My family was planning on leaving Saturday anyway but this phone call kind of rushed things. Thanks family for understanding and being there. I was in my car on my way home within half an hour and literally sped the whole way home. I'm so glad I was able to spend some time with my family, especially staying up by the fire until 1am Friday night with my mom, Hai, Jed, Jordan and Tanner just talking. I LOVE them more than anything!! Wasn't the best end to the weekend, but I'm still glad I was able to spend time with my family before Hailee heads off to college in 3 short weeks. :(



We love you Trig!! Duke will miss his "big brother."