Bear Lake Parade of Homes

Last Friday we went to the Bear Lake Parade of Homes for the 2nd year in a row. I'm pretty sure this is a new tradition for us because we LOVE walking through people's cabins and vacation homes. It feeds our day dream of one day owning a cabin of our own!

We left our house at about 10:15 in the morning and spent a good chunk of the day in Bear Lake. There were seven homes in the parade and with two kids in car seats, it was a lot of work getting in and out of the car each time! We went through a couple of homes and then stopped for lunch and a much needed break. Then we finished up the rest of the homes before getting ice cream and heading home.

It felt a little like they were desperate for homes to be in the parade this year. Two of the homes felt pretty cookie cutter, two other homes the families had been living in them for close to a year and "moved out" for the parade, and one of them wasn't a home at all, it was a resort that was still under construction and we walked through a work zone to get to the suite that was being shown. And the suite had a parking lot view instead of a view of the lake. Pretty strange! But we loved it all the same. The actual cabins made it worth it.

So funny story. Shasta was the first to get dressed that morning and of course she picked her "girl shirt" as she calls it (it has Strawberry Shortcake on it). Then I was looking through my closet and picked a purple shirt and told Shasta we were going to match. Then I jokingly said we should pick out a purple shirt for Daddy so all of us could match, but we didn't. The last one to get dressed was Shelby and I handed Nick an outfit and asked if he would dress her while I finished getting ready. The first thing he said when I handed him the outfit was, "I thought we were all wearing purple" in which I realized he had actually put on a purple shirt! So I picked out a different outfit for Shelby and we all wore purple to Bear Lake!

We got home from Bear Lake around 5:45 in the evening and met up with one of Nick's friends, Marshall, from Salt Lake, for dinner. He and his family were in Logan because he was running a half marathon the next morning. It was so good to see them. It makes me sad that we don't get to see them more often because they're such a fun couple to be around. We hadn't gotten together for 2 years (right after we had Shasta) and yet it felt like we had just been together last month. Nick and Marshall have a unique friendship where time and distance doesn't effect them. And Marshall's wife is amazing. I could talk to her all day!

We had a really busy day, but it was a lot of fun!