All the grandkids.

Everyone.

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids. Obviously Lucy was done with Bear Lake.

With this many kids and lots of fun aunts and uncles around at our family reunions, there is never a dull moment.

A pinata for dessert.

Relaxing after a day at the lake watching movies.

Making “bag icecream”.

Which clearly was delicious.

Putting ice down the shirt, a family favorite.

The “HA” game.

Marshmallow gun wars, of course.

Tie-dye! See, I actually WAS there.

And a whole lot of eating.

Geoff’s parents were visiting Geoff’s grandparents before they came to Bear Lake. During their visit, Geoff’s grandpa Ed, gave them his duffel bag from WWII. He said he hadn’t opened it since the war and thought maybe the grandkids would like to see it. They brought it and one of the nights at Bear Lake, we opened it. He was a paratrooper and in his bag were all of his clothes, a Brownie camera, binoculars, some Nazi paraphernalia, hats and helmets among other things. It was amazing to all of us, young and old alike to handle such old and special items.

After some gentle encouragement from their Utah children, my parents came out for a short, but wonderful visit. It is SO great to have them around. We did all sorts of things, most of which I photographed, except for our entire day in the water where we went to Seven Peaks and then took the boat out for skiing, wakeboarding at kneeboarding (both Isaac AND Lucy do this). What was I thinking not bringing the camera along!

Here’s some other things we did:

Rode our bikes to BYU and played in the fountain.

Played boules when my brother Matt, and his family came down for a delicious BBQ. Luke, this shot’s for you!

Poppy showed Sofia the joys of putting your head in the sprinklers.

My parents with Isaac.

Uncle Matt feeding my child’s iPhone game addictions.

Lucy and her cousin Sofia being homies?

That’s how Lucy says “Bear Lake”. We’re back from a excellent family reunion (with the Wright side of the family). I’m not sure if I’ll have time to edit pictures before Girls Camp next week, I’m exhausted just thinking about all I have to get done by Monday! Summer is wonderfully busy and I’m loving every minute of it.

Lucy and I met up with Geoff and Isaac at BYU (they biked there and back, that’s a 2 mile bike ride for my 4 year old!) and walked over to the beautiful stream and waterfall they have made there. There were lots of baby ducks and Lucy couldn’t have been more excited. I was taking some pictures of Isaac and Geoff walking on the rocks, while Lucy disrobed and started walking in the water. She is certainly a water-baby!

I intended to just take some pictures of the kids and the ducks, but Geoff took my camera while I was playing with the kids and got these. At the risk of seeming conceited, I post them because I think he did a great job and honestly, it’s nice to have some visual memories of myself with my babies. It’s warm summer evenings like these, spending time with those I love the most that I’m reminded how lucky I truly am!

**Technical note: these were taken with my 85mm at 160/f3.2 (which should have been smaller so that we were all in focus, but oh well). I happened to lay down in a patch of sunlight coming through the trees–HELLO, must do that more often because it did wonders for my face and under eye bags!

I went to kiss Isaac goodnight tonight and this is how I found him. So precious! Isaac is such a good boy. I am so grateful for him and the happiness he brings to our family every single day.

Well, let’s be honest, she’s always cute to me.

We met up with the Dovers for a delightful evening together, complete with a picnic, marshmallow guns (made by my resident handyman), swinging, biking and a surprisingly good Christian Rock group serenading us in the background.

Amy was very serious about her gun and the trajectory necessary to achieve full marshmallow-flying status.

The lineup of hoodlums, minus Ethan and Lucy who stole the bag of Doritos and hid on the playground shoving them into their faces as quickly as possible.

Nothing wrong with a little game of “Hit the Kids”. I’m surprised this picture is even in focus I was laughing so hard.

Livi and Isaac with their bikes. Isaac has totally mastered bike riding, and Livi has clearly mastered picking her nose.

Lucy could stay on the swings all day long!

Amy had a classic middle school swinging blunder when she went to jump off the swing and got nervous. This is what I turned around to see. I’ll spare you and her the up close shot of her sprawled on the bark chips. The highlight of the evening for sure.

Summer, don’t leave us, we’re having way too much fun!

Oh my, what a treat it was to go see Bon Iver in concert with my sweet friends, Kristin and Kiera. He was AMAZING! Seriously, check him out. And, did I mention it was free? I cannot wait for the Iron & Wine and M. Ward concert as well. Jenny Lewis was the opening band, and while I hadn’t heard her before and was really going for Bon Iver, I really enjoyed her music as well. Very Jewel-like.

Kiera brought her camera along and let me play with her tilt-shift which I’m in love with. Here’s a couple shots that she got.

Thanks for the fun evening gals!

After seeing the first shot, we decided we clearly weren’t enjoying ourselves enough, which explains the last picture.