Fish-Bear-Iron-Williams-Meadow

What do these 5 things have in common? They are the names of lakes. But more specifically, they are the 5 lakes that we have visited in the last 5 1/2 weeks. I feel like this summer has been the summer of lakes! At the end of July we went on a Perkins Family Reunion to Fish Lake in southern Utah for 3 days. At the beginning of August, we took a day trip with the Perkins cousins to enjoy beautiful Bear Lake in northern Utah. The next weekend, we went camping with our friends the Lingers to Iron Lake, a beautiful fishing lake in the mountains an hour and a half away. The following weekend we took a day trip to Williams Lake (only 10 miles from our house) and spent a few hours relaxing in the water and playing with Josh's friends the Stephenson's. This last weekend, we camped at Meadow Lake in Idaho, which is 60 miles southeast of our house, to revisit the place that Ammon fell in a rockslide last year. 5 lakes, 5 weeks, 2 states, 1 summer, and many memories later...

FISH LAKE
A photo of the lake right before the big storm.
Josh & Kala on the rental boat.
Josh & the boys fishing on the boat.
Jonah & Micah walking in the water.

BEAR LAKE
Jonah, Micah, & Ammon playing in the warm water.
Cousin Abby in the sand.
Kanyon loving the sand.
The cousins--Tolman boys and Perkins girls.

IRON LAKE
What a beautiful lake!
Josh & the boys doing some fishing.
Kanyon trying to be just like his big brothers by fishing with a little pole.
Josh caught a fish! (Even though he hates fishing & refuses to eat them!!)
Ammon with the big fish he caught. He was determined to catch one and stayed by the lake until dark; his determination paid off!

WILLIAMS LAKE
The boys on the deck looking out on the lake.
Josh floating with the twins.
Josh & Ammon on tubes in the water & Kanyon on deck with his big-boy life jacket.
Kala floating around right before her 1/2-mile-long swim across the water.

MEADOW LAKE
The boys on a rock by the lake.
Ammon one year after his rock slide accident. The area where he fell is right above his head in the photo.
Josh and all four boys on our hike.
We hiked to this beautiful little pond where the boys loved playing!