Memorial Day In Tahoe

Yesterday was a great Memorial Day here in Lake Tahoe!

 After spending a good part of our morning in our condo talking with our favorite missionary, Elder Trickett, we went out to the swimming pool to play, relax, and get some sun.

Today Dallin shared with us the tragic news of one of the missionaries in his mission, Elder Card who was killed in a bus accident that was hit by a semi. All of the missionaries had just gotten done serving in the temple when they got on buses to go home. Dallin was on the bus before the one that was hit...

It was such a sad story, but one that you cannot deny that God is in charge...We are praying for Elder Card's family, and for all of the missionaries, both in Dallin's mission and throughout the world.

After we all spent some time playing in the pool and sitting in the hot tub, we went into the pool house where we all did a little physical challenges in the weights room. Clint and Gavin also played a game of pool and ping pong. (Gavin won both games;).

Then we all went inside to get cleaned up, and we drove into the nearest town which is called King's Beach, where we had some yummy lunch. I loved sitting out on the patio surrounded by all of the tall trees! It is SO beautiful here!

Then we decided to go on an adventure and go exploring! We drove to Tahoe City and parked the car and walked the streets there. We walked through a local thrift shop, and then found our way to Poppy's for some ice~cream!

We walked through more shops and ended up down by the Lake!

There were some really neat monuments and historical landmarks to see while we were there too...

We threw some rocks down by the lake, and saw this really neat bear statue that was made out of coins!!! It was so cool!

By the time we were done walking around it was about time for all of the shops to close, and so we headed over to the grocery store to pick up a few things we needed, and then headed back to the lodge. We went down to the candy store and bought ourselves some treats for the movie we were going to watch!

The lodge we are staying at has a private theater that you can reserve for your family, and so that's what we did! We watched The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug on our own private big screen! It was SO COOL!

All in all it was a really fun day, and I'm just so grateful to be here with my family that I love so much! Sometimes it feels weird to have only half of our children with us, but I am grateful for the good things that my adult children are doing and how they are growing their own families and getting to experience all of the joys that come with that stage of life. I feel so blessed to have these opportunities with my children that are still under my wing, and I want to make the most of each day, and so that is what we are going to do!