Last Vacation of Summer

Hi everyone. Welcome to my last post of the summer. It’s hard to believe, but school starts tomorrow! Summer has flown by at warp speed. I’m both happy and sad about that. Happy that we will benefit from the structure that a school schedule provides, but sad that the fun, crazy casualness of summer will be over. (I’m not sure I’m quite ready for hours of homework yet)

It’s been a good summer for us. To end it with a bang, we decided to take a  mini vacation with our good friends the Crafts. We managed to cram lots of fun into just a couple days, but it wasn’t so crazy as to not be relaxing.

The best part of the vacation was the company of course, and the only bad part was that we were missing Mary Kate. She was off having a vacation of her own in Colorado with Grandma and Grandpa Dickey. She had some exciting tales of  begging squirrels, hikes in the dark without flashlights, thunder storms, warm socks, adorable little boy cousins, bear scares, Zack the garbage disposal, and family love to tell.

While listening to the boys tell Mary Kate their tales of our vacation we discovered that their favorite part of the trip was the bathrooms at our camp site. That’s all they could talk about? I have visual evidence to prove that our vacation was much more fun than just some campsite bathrooms, as deluxe as they were.

So, without further ado, our vacation in photos….

First, Bear Lake for some quality beach time, jet skiing, and famous raspberry shakes at La Beau’s…

 Winnie’s first time at the beach, not a big fan

Then, camping at Beaver Mountain, a camping spot I would highly recommend. Great bathrooms! Flushing toilets, showers and everything. Just ask the boys. I can’t believe I didn’t take pictures of those great bathrooms!

 There’s Jonathan’s pirate look again

 Best camping breakfast ever!

Then a hike at our favorite mountain spot, Tony Grove. Simply lovely….

 Winnie was a much bigger fan of Tony Grove, check out the smile

And then, as if we hadn’t done enough, we had even more fun four wheeling up Millville canyon….

Throw in a trip to Aggie Ice Cream, some pizza a Fredrico’s, a few well told campfire stories and well sung campfire songs, s’mores and popcorn popped over the fire. Add the no bugs aspect, great weather, and some serious belly laughs and you have the perfect end-of-summer vacation. Thank you Crafts for helping us make it perfect. We love you guys more than our luggage!

Farewell to summer and all the fun it has brought. I hope you all had great summers too.