The Lake

I am so far behind....sheesh...if only I didn't have to work!! Then I could just blog away all day! Haha....
Here are a few pics from our annual Bear Lake Labor Day Extravaganza!! We had SO many people there this year! I think the only Utah Geddes fam not there was Brad and Liesha (you were greatly missed, trust me!). We had my Uncle Bryon and his whole fam-damly, Uncle Dwight and HIS whole fam, plus a family friend of theirs from India. Then we had my 3 brothers and their families. My Sis in law Jen's family came up and partied with us, and my cousin Ben and his girlfriend Kat came up! We had quite the slew of people! We partied all day at the lake and then went to the family cabin up Franklin basin road in Logan canyon and partied till the late night hours, playing ping pong, back-ball, cooking hamburgers, smores, chatting, laughing...good times!
I think Labor Day is actually the holiday I look forward to most. I get to hang out with all my favorite people all weekend long and just have a blast!


Gordon and Dillon walking out to play
Gordon spraying dad's rear...haha. That's water, not pesticides by the way. We bought that specifically for water only.

Makayla playing.
Ben and Kat!! So cute!
Makayla and Haylee!
Silly boys...

I laughed so hard at this one. Bryon is getting sprayed in the face with some water, and I just thought his face was hilarious!

About half of our group!
Jason and Dwight about to face off in the Semi-final round of "Stick Tower Fall"...a Geddes game of awesome-ness. They had a bracket and everything....Jason took 2nd place to Gordon.
Aunt Joni and Brookie.
Kristi and Haylee hangin'.

Ken-our foreign exchange student!
A rousing round of Stick Tower Fall. I just love the excitement/action/fun in this pic!
The Girls...aww...
Greg and Makayla and Jason and Haylee.
And not a single picture of me...guess it's obvious I am always the one behind the camera. Oh well.

The End.

Happy 4 Years!!

Before we went on our anniversary getaway, my mom and I and Makayla went on a trip to Nevada. Lots of outlet shopping, strip walking, swimming, etc. So one day, as if all this wasn't enough fun, we decided to drive 4 1/2 hours out to California for a day. We decided around 9:30 to actually go, but it took my aunt and her 6 kids like 3 hours to get ready. So we didn't leave till almost noon, got to the beach at 5-ish, and played as hard and long as we could before it got dark and cold. It was super super windy that day, so it was actually a bit chilly. But we didn't care at all. So when we left it was almost 9, and we didn't want to drive 4 1/2 more hours back to Vegas. We called and got a hotel in Victorville, about an hour from the beach.

Then spent the next day packing and getting ready for the drive back to Utah.

We got home on Wednesday night, and then Thursday afternoon Jason and I dropped Makayla off with Grandma, and then headed for Jackson Hole. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect anniversary getaway. It was out of town, it was gorgeous, it was fun, it was romantic. We decided we need to go up there more often! We did horseback riding, movies, ate at the coolest places...Billy's Giant Bugers...holy cow. Pretty much a heart attack on a bun, but SOOO good!! Mountain High Pizza Pie...amazing...New York Subway Shop...delicious!!! And candy shops that were to die for. I bought WAY too much fudge, and ate all of it.
Horesback rides at A-Ok Corral...SO fun! We did the two hour ride, but next time I think we would go for the 1/2 day ride, or 4 hour ride. It was SO fun.

Ok, now see the kid in the purple shirt on the Paint horse? Well...let's just say his ride was um...interesting. I think Jason and I laughed the whole time. The poor kids horse just had a mind of its own, and went wherever it pleased...going through the thick brush on the side of the trail...wandering off, trying to turn around and go back down the trail...hillarious. And the poor kid, who was all of maybe 14, didn't have a clue what to do.

Thanks for a wonderful weekend Jay! I love you!

A good time

I've been a bit behind on the whole blogging thing lately, thus the bazillion posts in the last couple of days. But I forgot I had a cute picture from our Third Annual Geddes Family Labor Day Bear Lake trip! And you heard right, A cute picture....as in ONE. Leave it to me to forget to charge the camera battery before we go on a fun trip! So this is the one and only picture from our fun day at the beach.

We ended up leaving a little early because a storm came through and we were all sand blasted. The wind was blowing so hard. The sand was everywhere. But on the bright side, our skin was exfoliated!! Makayla loved it, ate a couple of handfulls of sand, dipped her feet in the water a few times. We didn't really let her play in the water all that much, as Walmart was out of swim diapers, and we didn't want to deal with the HUGE SOGGY BUM. But she still had a blast!