Over the weekend, we ventured up to Bear Lake for the second time in five weeks for another family vacation, this time with my side of the family. Mom rented out the same spacious house we all shared together last year, and it was wonderful to be back again to create some new family memories.
The weekend included watching a lot of movies together for those gathered indoors. On Sunday, we saw Church-themed movies
The Best Two Years and
Once I Was a Beehive, The rest of the time, we watched a good number of Pixar/Disney movies. Some of the highlights were family favorites
That Thing You Do! and
The Dark Crystal, which still creeps me out, from start to finish, to this day.
As you can see, Tanner was transfixed much of the time.
The plethora of activities, beyond playing in the water and in the sand, included t-shirt tye dyeing, rock painting, making bracelets, and Nine Square, which I suppose stands to reason as an updated version of a childhood favorite of mine (Four Square) from elementary school days. This is what it looked like:
When you're spending time at Bear Lake, you have to stop at either LaBeau's and/or Zipz for delicious raspberry shakes. (It's in the contract, among the fine print.)
At our second annual family talent show, many sang or played instruments; Jackson taught us all that cashews come from a fruit; Kira demonstrated her cup-stacking skills; and Biz, Steve, and I played "Spit Take," an improv favorite (JB took a video of it; she'll have to post it somewhere, sometime).
We also posed for some family photos in our matching shirts, featuring Mom with 13 of her 14 grandkids (minus our Elder Plowman, of course, currently serving in New Hampshire):
... and Mom with her six kids:
It was another well-spent weekend at Bear Lake, and we're looking forward to continuing this new tradition and doing it again in 2020.
