Bear Lake

The pictures never do it justice.  This place is beautiful!  Our trip was short and sweet, but we managed to do as much as we could in one afternoon and evening.

Josh tubing on the deflated banana tube.  He loved it.

Nate stayed in Orem with Grandma Shawna, so Josh got all the attention!  He loved every minute!

Josh & Dad

Uncle Ben, Dad, & Josh

Ben and John were hilarious to watch as they jumped back and forth onto the other persons tube.  Josh barely noticeable in the sunken deflated tube just chilled while being thoroughly entertained.

The BEST Part aside from being with my family was WATERSKIING!  It is probably my most favorite thing to do!  We were blessed to have the perfect conditions of glassy water all afternoon!  I cannot even remember the last time I was able to go (either over a year ago right after I had Nate (which is a blur) or before I was pregnant with Nate (3 years ago).  I was just thrilled that I got up on my first try every time and I stayed up as long as I could hold on!

This is a look of complete bliss after my ski run!  Love this sport!

John's turn!  I'm so glad that John loves to ski too!

My brother Jacob.  He is such a clown!

Nothing can beat the skies out west.  I had forgotten how amazing they are!  Once again my camera doesn't give it justice and to top it off once I put the same picture on the blog the quality goes way down, but you get the idea.  A bit of Heaven on Earth.

Josh & Uncle Daniel

Josh & Grandma Susan

It was so nice to be able to spend time with John, since it is a rare treat now that we are in residency!  I just can't get enough of him!

Every year that my family and I went to Bear Lake there always were amazing sunsets!  Did I mention sunset is my favorite time of day?!

We ended the evening with roasting hot dogs and smores while watching the sunset!

John, my Dad, and Aunt Jeannie

We left to head back to Orem at 10:30 that night and it took forever because it rained/flash flooded like it does in the midwest (seriously it hardly ever rains like that in Utah or Idaho).  We didn't get home till about 2 am, but it was totally worth it!

Trip to Utah - Part 1

As soon as we got to grandmas house the boys immediately started a race track with cars on Grandma's table.  This continued the remainder of the trip whenever they got a chance.  Grandma Shawna even joined in on the races.

Josh and Uncle Daniel

Josh had the coolest little room under the stairs.  Grandma Shawna read books to Josh every night before bed in that tiny little crawl space.  He loved it and couldn't get enough reading time with Grandma.  He also loved his little room.

Gary, Landon, Becca, Johnny, Marie, Nate

We had the 1st Edwards Family Reunion.  We started it off with the opening ceremonies and the lighting of the torch.  John's brother's Nate and Gary assembled the torch and thought it fitting to use Scotty's underwear for the kindling.  It burned really well.  = O

John's parents

Nate with all the fireworks for the opening ceremonies.  We decided to just have one grand finale and light all of them at once.

Great Grandma Belt.

She had the family over for dinner one night and she made this amazing guacamole.  Josh wouldn't even touch the guacamole, but he still talks about it every day.  He's such a silly kid.

The Newlyweds.  

They are so cute together and Landon fits in perfectly with the family!

Gary the pro golfer.  He just started medical school in Chicago and we are so happy he is so close to us.

While all the guys went golfing one night, Becca and I went to Cafe Rio (my most fav place to eat, my mouth is watering just thinking about it) and to a movie.  It was so fun!  Did I mention she is my only sister (well actually sister-in-law).  We are both only girls and we both have 4 brothers.

Lots more to come.  Next post Bear Lake....

Daddy's Home

I was taking pictures of the boys when daddy got home from his last call shift and last day in the hospital for 10 days!  This is what the boys do every time dad comes home, but I'm glad I captured the moment as our official vacation began.

While I finished packing John took Josh golfing with the elders quorum.

Look at my mini professional golfer!  

This picture makes me smile and laugh.  He is so tiny and he is such an amazing golfer for a 4 year old.  He loves the sport!

Afterwards we headed to our friends wedding.  Isn't she beautiful!

It was a beautiful wedding.  The ceremony was in two different Indian languages with some English mixed in.  The boys sat their the entire time just soaking up a different beautiful culture and probably wondering what in the world they were saying.

The next morning we woke bright and early around 3:30 to head to the airport. 

Nate's first time in an airport and in an airplane.

He was so excited as he loves airplanes and he completely understood that he was actually flying in the airplane.  He did great the entire 3 1/2 hour flight.

Josh was more than thrilled to be on a plane.  He talked non-stop and loved the entire flight.  He even talked to the lady next to him for an hour and convinced her to give him her window seat.  She seemed to love talking with Josh.

For the record we almost missed our flight although we were there in plenty of time.  We waited in line to check our luggage for almost an hour after we had checked in.  They only had one person checking luggage and she was soooo slow.  It took her 10 to 15 per person!  She had no idea what she was doing.  When it was our turn in line an airport staff let a girl cut in front of us.  You couldn't help notice her while waiting in line because she was constantly swearing and whining about how she wasn't going to make her flight.  It was finally our turn to check our luggage and they said they couldn't check our luggage anymore because of this girl.  When the lady who helped this girl (who was much further behind us in line) found out we were on the same flight she started swearing at herself because she new she had made a dumb mistake.  John told me to run with the boys through security and make the flight and that he would try to work things out and try to make the flight.  Off we ran.  When we were 50 yards from our terminal Josh started bawling as he was trying to keep up with me and I was running as fast as I could with Nate in the stroller. as they were announcing our names overhead for last final call.  I really didn't know if we'd make it.  I was almost their and I looked back behind me to tell Josh that he could do it and that he must run faster and not give up when I saw john sprinting in his socks holding his laptop, shoes, and bag.  We made it just in time.  I think we were blessed to have a great flight after all that.  This is why I don't like to fly.  Can airports just get their act together?!

More posts of our trip to come......