A Little of What We've Been Up To...

Well, July 23rd - 25th was the Searle Reunion that we were over this year. It was alot of fun but I'm glad to say that we're done and passing it on for next year! :) Woo! :) We really had alot of fun and hope that the whole family did too. Thursday, the 23rd was kind of spent getting there and getting camp set up and so on. Then on Friday morning after breakfast the kids had a treasure hunt. The treasure was sand buckets and shovels, fish goggles, squirt guns, fish bubbles, sand toys, goldfish crackers and nemo fruitsnacks. They were ready for the lake! The kids couldn't wait to get to the lake and were putting their goggles on and even filling up their squirt guns and starting a little water fight. :)

I LOVE this picture! Too cute and funny! Trevor, Dillon and Todd - all with their crab goggles on.

Bryson getting in on some of the water fight!

Logan trying out the bubbles.

We then decided to go to the lake and got their just before lunch. The water was wonderful!! It is so warm and you can go out about 200 yards before it starts to get too deep - great for kids. It was also soft and sandy on the bottom. Logan LOVED it! He was like a little fish!

The other 2 boys tried out the water for a little bit and then played in the sand the rest of the time until the very end. They were so into it I had a hard time getting them to eat a sandwich for lunch. Seriously, they played in the sand building a maze or something for about 3 hours. They were lovin' it!

Love this picture - just relaxin' and the little bare feet with sand all over them. Too cute.

Then we came back and did some crafts and had dinner and then we had a Pinewood Derby. Each family entered a car. We just did this for fun. Joe made an awesome track for it and all the cars were great! Ours is the fire truck.

The cars...

Weighing in... my brothers, Bruce and David were the Inspection Officials - as you can see my family is pretty competitive but all in good fun! All of my brothers and brother-in-laws were officials for the night and mom and Joe were judges. It was a fun night!

The track... (aka: The Joey Gardner Speedway :) )

It was alot of fun! Saturday morning after breakfast we had a program, some family trivia and a box auction. We then cleaned up camp and headed for home. We stopped and got a famous Raspberry Shake first - yUmMy!! :) We hope to go back camping once more to Bear Lake before the boys head back to school.