A Week On The Water

Well it was another successful Lake Powell trip. No one was taken to the hospital, no midnight rainstorms, and almost no fights. However there were a few meltdowns by the younger ones. However they mostly happened at night as their parents were rubbing aloe on the sunburns. It was pretty sad listening to all of there cries. This year we went on a lot more boat rides then I remember in the past. We went and swam in the cave, jumped off cliffs, some went hiking, others stayed in the boat and got a tan! It was a pretty great time. Here are the pictures that were taken during the boat rides!
We found this neat little cave. We all got our life jackets on jumped overboard and swam into the cave. It was fun cause we told the little kids that bats lived in there. Who knows maybe they did! After the cave adventure we climbed up on the rock and jumped off and attempted to catch the football. Some succeeded others did not. When the big kids got tired of that they went to find a bigger rock. It was scary watching them especially when Taige decided to not follow through. I thought he was going to die!

Here are Ashton and Bailey looking for seashells, or as Ashton put it SeaChells. Brooke and I were making dinner when we heard this scream. We knew in an instant that it was Ashton. We look out the window and sure enough she is laying upside down in sticker bush. However I was later informed by Ashton herself that she saved her seachells. She didn't lose a one!
More boat ride pictures! I wasn't lying when I said we spent a lot of time in the boat!
Here is my dad wake surfing. It looks really hard. I was going to try it. But after trying to learn to solemn ski. My body had had it. It was tired so I opted for wake boarding instead. Since I already knew how to do that!
Here is a arch that my dad took us too! We went up the most AMAZING canyon. It was simply beautiful. Here is the front of the cave and then the back of the cave. We dropped off some people and they hiked to up to it. Once we got around to the other side I about had heart failure fearing that one of the kids would not stop and just go off the other side. Luckily no one did!

Well I hope this gives you a taste of why I love Lake Powell so much. It is truly my happiest place on earth. The only thing I hate about it is coming home and cleaning up! Seriously no fun so much laundry and stuff to put away and things to catch up on! Oh well I guess that is the price you pay to have fun!