Bear Lake- Day 2!!!!

The 2nd day at Bear Lake was GORGEOUS!  We went to an actual beach this day and we were all amazed at how gorgeous it was.  It was like being at the ocean...and you have to know that I have been dying for a trip to the ocean for the last 4 years!  Pretty much I was in heaven!  The water was a gorgeous turquoise blue and was as warm as a bathtub!  The sand was soft and warm and the there was just enough waves to make it PERFECT!  I fell in love with this place!!!  It really was a perfect day (minus the 45 minutes of sheer terror that involved a 911 call and all out search for my 3 year old nephew who went missing).  In the end, many prayers were answered, and John (not knowing that Chase was even missing) discovered him a mile from our beach spot and brought him safely back to greet the hysterical family and the police who had been helping to search for him.  So we continued the rest of our vacation feeling happy to all be together and extremely grateful for the best possible outcome of a terrifying experience.  Here are some pictures...

Matson building castles in the sand (which translates to Matson digging up wet sand and flinging it at us)!

Aunt Michelle flew in this morning and we could hardly wait to see her.  The kids all greeted her with their water squirters and soaked her down!  Then they spent most of the day trying to get the adults wet!

Matson LOVED it as much as me!  I guess he wanted to become one with the beach...he kept lying down in the wet sand and holding perfectly still! 

He was so filthy...covered head to toe with sand...but he was so happy!

Carter and I are working on building a moat for our castle.

That evening we played all kinds of fun games together. The highlight was teaching my dad how to play "don't eat pete"! He had never heard of it before. And then watching my dad play "duck duck goose" with all the little kids. They loved chasing grandpa around and he kept getting picked!

Cute cousins hanging out in the morning before we leave for home.

After a fun vacation we got raspberry shakes and then headed for home.  It think Matson was completely delirious-he was so tired!  The only thing better than one binky it TWO BINKIES!  He is one funny little baby...and he knows it!