At the Beach!

Last Saturday, July 11, the Beck's (Deron, Virginia, McKenZ, and Jaxon) invited us to go to the beach with them. Did you know there's a real live beach only 15 min away from us here in Idaho Falls? We didn't before either. It's in Rigby (home of the invention of television, by the way), and it's called Rigby Lake.

The water was freezing, so Virginia and I opted NOT to go in, but that didn't stop anyone else from spending hours in the that frigid water. Especially Krysta. We literally could not stop her from staying in the water. And that meant that Scott spent a lot of time in the water too!!! (Thank you dear!) She has the most awesome lifejacket though; every time she fell down in the water, it would turn her right side up and she'd just float on her back. It wouldn't let her do anything else but that. She didn't mind that either, she'd just kick her legs and with that she'd get places.

In this next picture, Emalyn (she's facing backwards) and Krysta are visible in the front, then you can see Jaxon, then Tyler, then McKenZ (you can only see the back of her head), then McKenZ's friend Casey.Tyler and Emalyn have no legs!!

This is Emalyn saying, "AAAGGHHH! I'm stuck and I can't get up!!!"

This is Tyler saying, "Hey this is pretty cool. I like the feel of this sand in my toes. I could stay here all day..."
And this is Krysta and Virginia just chillin' in the shade. Hey, Virginia not only had a lounge chair and an umbrella for shade, but also a seemingly never-ending supply of barbecue-flavor potato chips-wouldn't you have stuck with her too? And the fact that Krysta just plain ADORES Virginia probably helped too. (P.S. Sorry about all the skin in the background!)

Deron and Virginia also brought their raft and let everyone go around the lake with it. Here, is Scott, Jaxon, Tyler, and Emalyn. Virginia and I had a go too, but due to an emergency potty break from one of the kids back on shore, the photographer was unable to take a photo. It was pretty fun though. Although, I'm sore now just from rowing around that tiny lake, and that's just sad.

Tyler, Emalyn, and Jaxon playing in the water.

"Look, Mom, I found a rock! A dirty, sandy, germ-covered rock!" Thought this picture would give you a taste of the joy Krysta felt the whole time we were at the beach. She just LOVED it the whole time. Everything is such a discovery at this age. She made this day much more entertaining.