Bear Lake

We had such a fun weekend for the 24th! A few months my friend Larissa and I were talking about how we wanted go to Bear Lake, so we did something about it! Booked our camp and waited. We have been so excited! 

We headed up on Thursday, set up camp at the South Eden campground. It wasn't crowded at all, it was perfect! Friday morning we went to Rondevous Beach, since it is so sandy and nice we decided we wanted to go there. But it was SO busy. We stayed there for about 3 hours, and then decided to go back to camp to eat lunch.

Harley had fun just playing in the sand. But he also LOVES the water. If you didn't watch him he would just crawl into the lake by himself. Also I love that picture on the left because it is one of the few pictures you can actually see he is finally getting neck! haha! Macie also loved the water! It was so funny. She just jumped right in, she even swam by herself for a little while with no one holding her. That is HUGE for her. I was so proud of her. 

Harley was one happy baby. One of the bummer parts of Rondevous is that there are SO many people and the sand makes the lake look really dirty, when it is actually crystal clear and gorgeous blue. 

Emery and Macie were playing"turtle" and crawling around pretending to be turtles. 

After lunch, and the kids taking naps we headed down the beach at our campground, there was no one down there, so it was perfect!

Bear Lake is gorgeous!

This beach is rocky, rather than sandy, but if you wear shoes you don't even notice. And honestly it is nice to not have sand in all of the kids clothes and diapers, plus the water is actually crystal clear here. The kids enjoyed throwing rocks. 

After a while they all decided that they wanted to get in the water. So Jake ran back to camp to get their suits, meanwhile Macie couldn't wait and just jumped in in her diaper. 

Love these kiddos all so much!

Saturday morning we woke up, had breakfast, cleaned up, and headed to the Minnetonka caves. Jake and I came here once before right after we were married, but it has been 5 years. Plus we were excited to take the kids, and Jamo and Larissa hadn't ever been. It was a lot of fun!

After the hike we went into Garden City to have lunch, and of course some Bear Lake Raspberry shakes! mmmm there is nothing better! Then we hit up the beach again with more swimming and playing. 

We had such a fun weekend! We definitely wanted to make that trip a tradition.