Warm sun, cool water, beautiful mountains, and playing with grandparents and cousins are creating happy kids for this mama.  Getting adapted to cooler water temperatures than those we have in the Florida ocean has been taking time, but little by little we’ve been inching our way into these cold lakes… and, once we’re in, finding they aren’t as cold as we thought.  Well, let’s be honest, they are sometimes tolerable, unless you are like me and you only jump in the lake after you’ve worked up a sweat running or hiking first– then the lakes feel amazing.  There are hundreds of beautiful mountain lakes all around us here in the Flathead Valley, Montana, and we’ve been enjoying as many of them as we can, as often as possible, during this short summer window.