Bear Lake, 7th Grade & Chicken Eggs

Last weekend we went back up to Bear Lake...for fun this time, not for physical punishment. :) It was our annual trip with the Harris' and Atkinson's only this year the Atkinson's could only spend a day at the lake with us. They did come back to our campsites after the lake for a little while but it wasn't the same without them camping with us!!

I realized that the word "camping" can mean different things to different people as I took a peek into Krista's tent! :) Her bed is about 3 feet high and on it she had sheets, a comforter and even a decorative pillow...what???? :) She said the decorative pillow just happened to be in the bag with the comforter...uh huh...whatever...hahaha.

Of course the kids love to roast starbursts over the fire and it wouldn't be a camping trip without doing that!

The first night was freezing so Hailey bundled right down into her sleeping bag.

The next morning we were heading to the lake but Krista first had her breakfast of champions...Pepsi and peanuts. In the picture below you can see the peanuts actually floating in her Pepsi. She grew up on a farm and said their hands were always dirty so that's how they learned to eat them for a quick snack and drink.

This year instead of renting a boat we rented a water trampoline. Sadly it turned out to be a little disappointing. It wasn't very bouncy and they anchored it in waist deep water so the kids' dreams of doing back flips off it into the lake were shattered. They did manage to have some fun on it though but we just won't do it again next year.

Courtney does not love being out in the sun but this year he showed up in a stylin hat to help protect him from the rays.

It obviously didn't do the trick since the towel was soon up over his head too...reminiscent of last year. :)

These kids are such great friends and are awesome together!!!!

As always it was a very fun trip...one that we look forward to every year. We are thankful for such great friends to share it with!!!

Well this week is a big week for Nick...starting Junior High School. He has been nervous all summer about being able to open his locker and find his way around. Last night was back to school night and we spent a couple hours there attending the orientation meeting, practicing opening his locker and walking to each of his classes. By the time we left he felt very confident that he could find his way around.

When we got home from the open house Nick went out to check on the chickens and low and behold there was the first EGG smashed on the ground in the coop. This was very exciting as Nick has been checking every day for 2 weeks knowing that they could start laying any day. The problem was it was not in the nest box. He kept going out there on and off all night last night after finding that and as he opened the door to check on them he sees another egg flying through the air and smashing on the ground...the chickens were actually laying the eggs as they were sitting on the perch and the eggs were dropping about 5 feet. So when Brian got back from his trip today the first thing he did was get the perches out of there. :) We didn't have any more eggs today but I guess it's a little sporadic for the first little while.

This morning Nick got up at 6:00 a.m. because he wanted plenty of time to check on the chickens before getting ready for school. The bus comes at 7:50 so he REALLY had plenty of time get ready. Just the 7th graders went today, which I think is a great idea, and they learned everything about the schedules, the school in general, etc. He came home very happy and excited and ready to go back tomorrow.

Waiting around for it to be time to head down to the bus.

There he goes...I didn't think he'd be too happy if I followed him to the bus taking pictures. :)