Bear Lake with the McPhersons

For this year's family vacation, Heather's family chose to rent a cabin right next to the very beautiful and very cold Bear Lake:

If you're going to go to Bear Lake, there are two things you must do. First, you need to visit one of the several ice cream shake joints (i.e. a raspberry shake at La Beau's) and, second, you need to see a show at the Pickleville Playhouse (www.picklevilleplayhouse.com). On this trip, we enjoyed a melodrama that was written by former Eclipse man, TJ Davis:

Here we are with TJ and his wife, Erin, after the show. For those of you who don't already know, Shayne will be performing with TJ in a production of "Forever Plaid" this fall. Should be fun! It opens Sept. 11 and goes through Oct. 4 in Logan. I imagine ticket information will be available on the website above in the next little while.

The trip gave Tober a chance to hang with his aunt Shauna:

And aunt Marci:



And grandma McPherson:



The ingenious use of the golf umbrella attached to the baby backpack was Heather's idea:

On this trip, Toby went on his first 4-wheeler ride:

And for his first "swim"--in a lake no less!

We kept him in the shallow part that was reasonably warm and he really seemed to enjoy himself:

And we thought he looked especially cute in his "baby speedo."

Here's Toby frolicking in the lake:





And here he is on his 4-wheeling adventure: