Jace's First Bear Lake Family Reunion

Every summer Amos's extended family goes to Bear Lake for a family reunion.  They stay at the Ideal Beach Resort in condos.  We always have a great time.  They rent waverunners and a boat.  They have group dinners and play games.  There is an annual dodgeball game and basketball game.  The guys usually go golfing early one morning, but they didn't do that this year. Of course, we go to La Beau's to get shakes (Amos and I usually don't get raspberry though).  The last couple of years the reunion has coincided with Raspberry Days so we also visited some booths.  Amos bought a Bear Lake shirt.  If we would have stayed until Sunday, we could have seen fireworks over the lake on Saturday night.  This year with Jace was definitely different than previous years.  We didn't sleep as well since we were all in the same room.  The first night Jace woke up a lot.  I think he was scared of his new surroundings.  The nights after that, Amos kept waking Jace and me up from his snoring.  Let's just say none of us slept very well.  We had to plan beach visits around Jace's naps.  We didn't do much boating and didn't play games at night as much as we used to.  We both went on the waverunner once and Amos went wakeboarding. We took Jace on a little boat ride to see if he would like it.  We went with another baby, Morgan, who is 9 months old.  They both seemed to like it.  We were worried because he didn't like his life vest so he was fussy at first.  The vest was too big for him so it was probably pretty uncomfortable.  He looked around for awhile and then almost fell asleep.  Amos took him into the lake a couple of times and he seemed to like it.  He splashed around a little bit.  We also took him swimming at the pool.  Jace was very smiley to all of the cousins, aunts, and great-grandma.  He is such a sweetie.  I'm looking forward to future years when we can do more fun things with him at the lake- like tubing. 

Uncle Rod was the ship's captain.

 

Jace and Mommy holding hands.

Jace and Mommy cuddling in bright orange shirts.