Bear Lake! ...etc...

Scott recently took his Step 1 Board Exam and then had a short break before starting his 3rd year hospital rotations. During that break, my family came up to Utah and we got to spend about 4 days at Bear Lake. In my opinion it was one of the best family vacations we've done. The cabin we stayed at was great (nice pick, Mom!) and we just had a lot of together time on the boat, jet skis, beach, etc - "forced family fun" that actually turned out to be fun!

Everyone stayed at our place for a day before taking off. Kate basked in all of the attention from her grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Camille was Kate's artist of choice, and kindly agreed to Kate's demands for pictures.



"Helping" set up the futon.

To our amusement, Austin decided to sleep outside when everyone stayed with us. It apparently had something to do with the snoring of certain unnamed persons, but that didn't stop us from laughing when the sprinklers came on and soaked his pillow.

Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of the cabin at Bear Lake, but here we are on the boat.

Camille was the first rebel to remove her life jacket.

We all took turns learning to wakeboard and/or ski, but the only picture we have from our camera is of Scott, who obviously wasn't in the learning stage.
Lunchtime.



Camille and me, doing some synchronized tanning.

Kate was a little champ on the boat, occasionally succumbing to exhaustion from all of her missed naps.

Christine took Kate on a tube ride. I love how uncomfortable Kate looks in this picture.

That concludes the Bear Lake portion of the post. Camille, we need you to post pictures and especially videos since most of those were on your camera. Now for some miscellaneous Kate pics:

Nerd Kate.

Post-bath euphoria. Too bad this one turned out fuzzy - we probably need to upgrade our camera.

The complex lotion ritual.

Our friends came over last night for games, etc, and brought Kate's little friend Logan.

What color would you say her eyes are? We still don't know. Maybe "murky"?

On an unrelated note, here is a hilarious satire blog I recently discovered. If you are a young married LDS couple with a blog, though, don't click on it unless you're willing to laugh at yourself. Admittedly, we've seen ourselves a couple of times in the satire - but it's still pretty funny.