The Bartons at Bear Lake 2012

It was time for our annual Bear Lake day with the Barton family.  It was a little later this year and actually happened the weekend after school started so it was our final hurrah of summer.  Ashlee had auditions for Jr. Company with the Cache Valley Civic Ballet on Saturday morning so the rest of the gang headed up to the lake after a yummy pancake breakfast (courtesy of Dave) at our house and Ashlee and I joined them after lunch.

The last time we were at Bear Lake, I didn't put Ellie in a swimsuit mainly because I didn't want her out in the sun (or in the water). She had other plans and wouldn't stay on the blanket under the shade so this time I decided to just put her swimsuit on and lather her with sunscreen. She LOVED the water and was so happy just exploring everywhere.

At one point, I thought Rob was watching her but all of a sudden she was gone.  Panic mode!  She had crawled behind the stack of tubes...

 

Little cheeser!

 

Hey guys, whatcha doin'?

 Jane and Ellie

 

She spent alot of her time crawling in and out of this inflatable boat...

And crawling around in the water...

And would stop to watch the game the boys were playing...

No, I didn't just take pictures of Ellie  :)

The kids played Kubb....

Hey mom, take a picture of me chopping this ball of sand.  Okay??  :)  Hey, nice timing!

Posers.

 
Trevor in the "kiddie pool".  They dig one every year...

 

Jacob, Caleb, Ashlee, Rob and Chris played a "soccer" game in the water.  Well, a game with a soccer ball.  They had to pass the ball down the field by throwing or kicking it in the air to a teammate.  If the ball hit the water, it was the other team's ball.  In order to score, you had to head the ball in between the poles.

 

Such fun times and great memories.