Purcell's BIG Bear Lake Adventure!!!

This weekend was full of lots of adventure! The Purcell's decided to hopefully start an Anual Purcell Vacation! This year we went to Bear Lake. We all had lots of fun, but definantly ready to rest. So without further ado here are tons of pictures of our great fun!
DAY 1
We mostly just set up camp, talked, and took pictures. Then we went to bed early so that we would have lots of energy for the next day!
This is Blue Eye Jonah. He will be 1 this month!

Ohhhh Ryan. We had to confine him to the tent otherwise he was in the middle of the road. He was definantly the little explorer.Look at that smile though. TOOOOO CUTE!

Remi. She wants to be a fashion designer when she grows up. I think she will be AWESOME. She drew all sorts of pictures up there! What a good little artist. Pretty cute too!

Mr. Liam. He is such a tender heart. We all felt so bad for him. He loves to camp, but was struck with some little bug and was sick pretty much the entire time. He was still happy and sweet and was still able to have a little bit of fun!

Just talkin!

Hannah. Our other little Cheese! She is pretty ambitious and loves to be heard! She beat me at Go Fish and was pretty proud of herself. Actually, I think she just liked calling me the looser the best :) hehe it was a tough game she sure knows her stuff!

Liam ate something and it turned his teeth, lips and tongue BRIGHT BLUE!

I love you grandpa!


You talkin too me? Porter he is the mean one sometimes. The rest of the time he is such a little love bug. Watching him and Karston together is quite a little show. Definently a MUST SEE! If you ever get the chance that is :)


DAY 2
MINNETONKA CAVE!
After breakfast Doug, Becki, Jayson, Remi, Hannah, Terry, and of course Mwah went up to Minnetonka Cave. When we got there we had to wait for about and hour and a half, but it was really fun to look at.
Here we sit.

This is Hannah REFUSING to take a nap.

This is Hannah AFTER about 5 seconds of REFUSING to take a nap. hehehe

The CAVE!!!
440 steps inside the cave. 880 steps here we come!!!

Yes that is right folks it was only 40 degrees inside this cave, and I wore shorts what was I thinking!!!!!!

Kermits House

This is the only stone you are allowed to touch in the entire cave so I am touching it!

Here we are we made it to the very end. They shut the lights off and you could not even see your hand in front of your face it was pretty dark!



BEAR LAKE!!!
Just floating and relaxing!

Doug talked his mom into going on the Jet ski with him! She was brave and accepted his offer!

Kris and Terry! Cute picture huh!

Jodi, Blaine, and Hannah!

Terry Bringing in the Jet Ski!
Becki bringing in hers!
Garrett and Jayson being silly.

Garrett our Giant among us! Funny picture huh he looks HUGE compared to the background!

Karston testing out the water. Not totally sold yet, but getting closer.

Remi and Karston playing with the boat.

Karston and Ma playing in the water!

My cute boys!

The next morning before we left for the lake Jodi braided our hair to keep it away from our face! Here is grandma and Hannah strutin their look!

Me and Becki!

After our photo shoot I looked over and saw my son doing this. He is soo smart huh! hahaha!

So Hannah was carrying this egg around so I told her to come with me and we would make her an Egg baby. So we drew this cute little girl face on the egg. Then I asked her what her Egg Baby's name was going to be and she without missing a beat said... KARSTON. I didn't know if I should feel flattered to have her girl egg baby after my boy or not.

Well as you can see Karston didn't last very long. He biffed and went splat. Poor Karston!

DAY 2 AT THE BEACH!!!
Jonah wondering how to get enough strength to get out of the bucket!

Karston showing off his new trick again!

Karston hanging out with Liam.

Karston wasn't too fond of the water, but he LOVED this little puddle he found!

Ryan Contemplating the makings of the universe.

Karston contemplating the makings of the universe

Ryan and Karston Contemplating the makings of the universe

Karston sharing the makings of the universe with Porter and Jonah.

Liam and I built this AWESOME sand castle!

As we were packing up to leave the beach we were pelted with rain. I have never felt rain that hard before. I seriously thought people were throwing rocks at me. When we got back to camp we all got cleaned up had dinner and enjoyed Smore's! We had soo much fun, but man we were tired.
Becki enjoying her BIG smore.

Porter getting tired of me taking pictures of him!

Me and my babe swinging in the trees!
My sister-in-law Jodi and her hubby blaine! No matter what the conditions Doug's sisters look like a million bucks in photos! How would it be... I will never know!
My cute little family!

We ended the Adventure with grandpa on the guitar singing songs around the camp fire. The weather was great (minus the rain storm) we all are safe, and we all got closer to each other! We have a great family and hopefully there will be many more Adventures to come! We love you all very much! Thanks for the great memories!