Yes, I am posting more beach pictures. Remember last time we went we were kicked out because they needed the water for a nearby fire? Well, I wanted to show the pictures of the difference in the water levels after that. I call this my Summer Summary.
We got to go to the beach with Jessica and her girls one morning. You can see a buoy in the background nicely resting on top of a decent water level.
A few days after they shut the reservoir down, we heard it was back open. All the while we were driving over looking at this fire. This was a different fire! Further east. As I mentioned in my Manti post there were a lot of fires in Utah this summer. Luckily for us this fire didn't shut down the beach. You can see the water level is much much lower this time. Look at that buoy, much closer to the shore and the rope is exposed. The kids tried to have fun with this new level, but the water was murkier and there wasn't as much water to play in unless you went on the other side of the rope and it was too scary for them too.
There is a rock wall right under the rope and bouy. Danielle played on that for a little bit, but it wasn't very comfortable to walk on.
We didn't stay very long this day. The kids got bored and their bickering had us heading back to the car pretty quickly. Sad.
A weekish later we thought we would go see if the levels were any better. Danielle and Tyler were SURE that they wouldn't be, so she and Tyler had bad attitudes and didn't even want to go, but also didn't want to stay home, so they decided to go, but not bring their swimming suits.
Oh those poor unprepared children were out on their luck when we pulled up to a practically open beach and great water levels!
I love these two pictures of Danielle splashing around.
Tyler making the best of the beach in his jeans.
Cassidy had her cast on for most of our beach trips. She had a difficult time NOT going in the water. I was almost constantly reminding her to not go too deep or to be careful not to slip. We were blessed to not have any accidents with her cast around the water.
Keeping busy in the sand.
Lady Bug came for a visit.
Psyching themselves up for the unheated water.
My little swamp things.
On one of our excursions Samuel threw Tyler's sandals in the water. Very quickly the current/ waves started taking them into deeper and deeper water. By the time I got up off my blanket to help they were so far out that I had to immerse everything but my head and swim a bit out to get them. I was a bit hesitant. It was cold and murky. I will run around in the water and play with the kids, but I much prefer to lay in the sun vs. actual swimming. The kids were cheering and hollering about how I had saved the sandals and that I was their hero and that they couldn't believe I had ACTUALLY got in the water! "I thought moms didn't get in the water!", exclaimed Tyler. "HaHa, Tyler." I said. He knows I get in the water all the time! Just not with my full body. They sure made me feel awesome though. Set the bar low, I always say.
One time we made our own little swimming hole.
With all the ups and downs, this was still a great beach year! Maybe BECAUSE of the ups and downs. It was never too crowded and we had enough variation for the kids to not get TOO sick of going to Mommy's favorite place.
