Dance Family Reunion

For this year's Dance Family reunion we went to Bear Lake in Idaho. Doug's brother Darrin and his wife Shawnee were in charge of it. They did a great job. It was a great place for the reunion and they prepared as much of the food before that they could so we just pretty much had to heat things up. All their work made meal preparing much easier. We camped right next to the beach. It was different from the camping I'm more used to. There weren't really any trees, like you'd find when camping in Washington. It was mostly just a big open field with a lot of dead grass. I was worried, especially being pregnant, that it would be really hot, but it wasn't. I was actually probably a lot cooler there than I would have been if I had been at home. One of the days we were there was windy and cloudy and so it was nice and cool for me. Bear Lake is a really good beach. There was a lot of soft sand and the water wasn't too cold, although I didn't get in more than my feet. The water is really shallow for a long ways out too which was perfect for the kids. It was nice to have a lot of time to just hang out with everyone.

Daisy and Jack in our tent.

Jordan loved playing in the sand. He was so happy playing by himself in it most of the time. He didn't go in the water very much. When he did go in he only took a couple steps in.

Jack in the lake. See how shallow it is? It's not even up to his waste and he was pretty far out. He didn't like when he saw how far away he was from Doug, who's in the edge of the picture.

Daisy, Jack, and Doug playing. Damon in the back ground.

Jackson resting on Doug's leg. He was tired a lot this trip. He didn't take any naps and didn't get much sleep at night either.

Jack bundled up in his towel resting with his daddy.

Family picture. I brought my lawn chair, as you can see, and I'm so glad I did. It was so comfortable to lay on. Much better than a chair or sitting in the sand.

Jordan and me.

Daisy, grandma Dance, and Jordan playing in the sand. Jordan like to just take the bucket off and on the pile of sand.

Darrin, Daisy, Carson, Damon, and grandpa Dance digging in the sand.

Jordan played in this moat and with the sand castle for a long time.

Jack, Doug, Jordan, and grandpa Dance in the water.

Jordan sitting in a hole. He loved sitting there.

Jack and Doug playing water volleyball. Jackson wore his sunglasses pretty much the hole time we were there. Everyone was very impressed that he kept them on. He really hates the sun in his eyes.

Jack and Doug in a boat.

Grandma Dance and Jackson.

Grandma Dance with her newest grandchild, little Eva. Isn't she so tiny and cute? I can't believe I'm going to have one of those in my house in just a couple months... Jordan loved to go look at her. I told him grandma was a holding a baby and he got so excited and ran over to them and wanted to see the baby and kept pointing at her and saying baby. We'll see how much he likes having one here.

Daisy and Jackson. A funny story about Daisy: we stayed at her house on Wednesday night before heading to Bear Lake on Thursday. Her older brothers were racing and she wanted to race with them, but realized that were too fast. So she said she wanted to race "the little man" referring to Jack. :) She also called him her friend and boy friend. She had a hard time remembering his name. Not everyone has Jackson's talent of remembering people's name really easily. He really did good at that I thought.

We put Jordan in the back of the van for him to take his nap. I didn't think he would sleep, but Doug wanted to try it. And to my surprise he did fall asleep. I just had to lay with him for a few minutes. He never slept as long as he does at home though. So he was pretty tired yesterday when we got home from his lack of sleep and he slept until 10:45 this morning.

Mckay and Isaac in playing in the sand.