A Split Adventure at the Lake

It's our week for Bear Lake, but the problem is Kodi's preschool graduation is on Tuesday night, and Kyson's is on Thursday night.  That throws off going up for the week because they're smack in the middle.  So, what we decided to do is split the time.  I went up with the Kids Sunday through Tuesday.  Then we went to Kodi's graduation, then Kyson's graduation, then went back up on Friday when Kris got off work.  It sounds like a pain, but we had everything set up and packed, so going back up the second time was no big deal.

The first night, there was a gorgeous sunset.  The colors kept getting more more vibrant as the night went on and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was.  The kids didn't waste any time going out into the water and they were filthy.  Kodi got a new bike and she broke it in well up at the cabin.  In fact, I couldn't get her off of it, and she even slept with her bike helmet for a few days.  It's good for her to want to ride her bike so much, it's making Kyson want to ride more, which is a wonderful thing.

On afternoon, my mom and I went into Garden City with the kids and I bought them some kites.  They've never flown kites before.  The wind was pretty strong and it would pick the kites right up, but they were so hard to control once they were in the air.  We lost one in a tree, another crashed on the roof, a few times were were trying not to get hit by it, as the wind took control and sent it crashing to the ground.  Kite flying is a lot harder than I remember.  Either that, or the kites have gotten harder to fly.  Even though it was challenging, the kids really enjoyed their kites.

The coolest part of the short trip was when we ran into some military guys in Garden City while getting shakes.  While we were in line, Kyson asked me a couple of questions about them, like, "Did they help fight the Decepticons?"  and "Do they have big guns?"  I told Kyson to ask them, but he was too shy.  Fortunately, one of the soldiers heard Kyson asking me questions, so he started talking to us and answered them anyway.  The four soldiers invited us to go see the camp they had there temporarily.  They were there for training drills and there were helicopters and big rigs that they invited us to see.  We went.

Kyson was complaining about the mosquitoes, but it was so cool.  They gave us free reign in the helecopters and took us all over.  We found out one of the men was from Herriman, and another guy there was my parents' next door neighbor - small world.  The coolest thing was, at the end of our "tour," one of the soldiers took off his badges from his uniform and gave one to each of the kids and Josh.  Josh got the American flag, and Kyson got one that he earned in Afghanistan.  That was so amazing to me. We put them in a special place so the kids wouldn't lose them.

For only a couple of days, we sure were able to do a lot, and we'll be back in a few days.