Bear Lake: Round 2

My side of the family got to talking about how fun it would be to go camping. We do this every year. "Yeah, it would be so fun! We should do it..." And nothing ever happens. Well, this year, we made it happen. We set a weekend aside and I suggested Bear Lake, because I am familiar with camping there and it is only 2.5 hours max from Salt Lake. Pretty much everybody got off early on Friday afternoon and we arrived there by around 5:30. We chose the busiest time of year to go...Raspberry Days. So anywhere you could reserve a site had been booked since spring. We took our chances and ended up camping at Cisco Beach. There was PLENTY of space available, and plenty reason why...NO running water, NO flushing toilets, NO showers, rocky campsites and no sandy beach...the water was SO HIGH this year, we were basically camping on the shore. We still went knowing this would probably happen, and it worked out just great! Once we got there and got all of our tents set up we headed to Le Beau's: a Bear Lake MUST. We didn't go to Bear Lake for the Raspberry days, but we still benefited by consuming FRESH raspberry milkshakes. Believe me, it makes a HUGE difference. SO GOOD.

Owen and Jassy so excited to be camping together.
Thank heavens for aunties! Miles fell asleep like this both nights with Auntie Abby.
The setup: unfortunately we had to squeeze the 3 of us on an airmattress because we lost the cap on the other one. Owen is a wild sleeper, so its a little difficult to not get kicked in the face when you sleep with him. We brought the dvd player and he fell asleep to Megamind both nights.
Saturday we headed to Rendezvous Beach so that the kids could play in some sand. We also rented a wave runner for a few hours.





This marks Pedro's first vacation EVER. We are terrible dog owners. He was thrilled to be with us. My mom and her sisters are all dog lovers, so he was getting lots of attention, treats and walks. I think he enjoyed himself.
We did some casual family shots at sunset. The Seare Family:
The Miera's:
Owen and Jassy, best friends. These two love each other and fight with each other like husband and wife. Hilarious.
The Williams Family:
The Kastner boys:
Owen and Jassy with my Uncle, Jose.
The Corona's and their granddaughter:
Kika and her boys:

Seare reunion

On the 24th of July we had a big Seare family reunion. When Steve and I first got married, he had an Uncle and Aunt, and 3 cousins and their families in Arizona...all Seare's. Since then, all of them but one cousin has moved back to Utah, but sadly, we don't see them any more often than we did before. Steve's cousin Shannon hosted and we had a great time. Of course, Owen was loving on all the girl cousins...namely Abby and Sophie.

Taylor and Suzie were in town from Arizona and it was great to see them and their cute kids. Owen was thrilled to play with Ian and Colton. Owen was loving that there was ANOTHER Ian (see Bear Lake post). There is a total female domination in the Seare family. It is crazy.



Three brothers Seare: Mike, Jeff, and Scott

Here is GG (great grandma Seare) with all of the Great Grandchildren. 15 girls, 6 boys. Missing were 5 girls and 3 boys.

Jassy Turns 3!

Jassy turned 3 in July. She had a "Princess Party" and it included EVERYTHING! She had a bounce house, a pinata, pony rides, and a delicious spread of Mexican food...her tita is THE BEST cook!

Owen really got into character with the pinata...Ironman, of course!



Her Tito, my uncle, got her a Pony. She could not stop giggling. She was so excited. and Adorable.


and of course, Miles got lots of love from his aunties.

Golfing with the Hubs

For father's day this year, among other things, I told Steve I'd take him golfing. I picked the golf course, and the one I chose was Mountain Dell. I've been golfing a handful of times and once I had been there and had a good experience, so I thought it was a good choice. Oh, and it's beautiful! It was a little hot and really sunny...being JULY, but we had a good time. Sorry no pics of me to prove I was there, but if you ask the guy we were partnered with, he'll tell you, I sure was. I apologized to him when we were done. I'm pretty sure I would be most men's nightmare...really terrible. We had lunch at the clubhouse before and Steve said, "I'm just going to say one thing...Pace of Play." Luckily, my husband is really patient, but he will certainly stick to his golf etiquette. I'm glad we went and look forward to golfing with him again next year. Ha!

July's playgroups

My neighbor Leslie is really great and planned two playgroups a week throughout the whole summer. It was a lot for us and we were not able to make every single activity, but the ones we did go to were super fun! We went to Liberty Park and let the kids play in the Seven Canyons water park and then headed to the playground for a picnic and more playing, of course.




My neighbor Heidi has a big backyard and she planned one of our activities in her yard. She set up an obstacle course for all the kids to run through a few times. It was awesome, and funny. There were SO MANY kids, but it was so fun!


They had to run up this hill, through the sprinklers, roll down the hill, weave through the chairs, crawl under the table run around the house and come back and do it again. They all had a lot of fun.