LAKE POWELL

We spent the last week at Lake Powell. It was such a great week, full of fun, new adventrues, laughing, and time with family. We were there over the 4th of July, and saw some fireworks in beautiful "Last Chance" canyon.
I took a lot of pictures so there's a lot to see.

The sunset scenes were my favorite - the water and sky were so gorgeous. The kids loved playing in the sand and rocks gathering shells, etc.. This kept them happy for along time. 

We left Friday and drove to Page. We all slept on the boat and then went out Saturday morning to find a place to park the houseboat.
We decided on Last Chance- and it as a perfect spot. Lots of morning shade, private with a nice cove for swimming etc...
Once we got settled the swimming and boating began.

Sunday we went back into Page to go to church. We attended the church at the Navajo ward, went to Denny's for lunch and then headed back out on the lake. The rest of the week was boating, water skiing, paddle boarding, napping, swimming, wake surfing, fishing, eating, laughing, tubing, knee boarding etc....
It was so much fun!
We had 2 boats this year which was really nice! The kids were busy doing all the water stuff and eating lots of yummy food and snacks in between! 

It was great to see Megan, Colton & Jack from AZ, Jack is the cutest little baby! 

The kids got up early to go on the boat, and then we stayed up late every night, this was fun but we all got tired. 

The weather was perfect. It was cooler than normal, and we even got some thunderstorms several times during the week. It was perfect for sleeping and cooled everyone off. 

We did two obstacle courses which were awesome! We divided into 2 teams and did different activites like swimming, canoeing, paddle boarding, throwing a tennis ball, running, going off the slide, jumping off the house boat etc... It's a competitive group and  it turned out great! So much fun!

The kids really liked fishing, Becca caught her first fish and she was thrilled! 

It was so much fun to have all the family together.
(we really missed Marcus & Natalie Kay)
There's lots of laughs and funny jokes and a little bit of annoying jokes too. 

Taylor & Jeffrey were learning how to drive the ski boat! They did great! It's fun to see them growing up and becoming more responsible.

Isaac lost his 2 from teeth on the trip. They were loose when we left and we pulled them out, he was happy and looks like a 2nd grader! 

The sky and all the scenery at Lake Powell is spectacular! The water and the sky are both so blue, green and vibrant colored. The water is the perfect temperature and felt so refreshing every time you dove in. 

Pics from the day we went to Rainbow Bridge.

The kids had tons of time to waterski, wake surf, knee board, wakeboard and go tubing.  They are all really improving at all of these and had fun learning and trying new things! Isaac wakeboarded and he did fabulous! 

Baby Jack was the BEST little baby on the trip!
He's so happy and smily. He loved the boat, and slept awesome. He's such an amazing little baby. We all loved spending time with jack! 

More pictures of the fun!

Love these ladies! 

On Wednesday we went to Rainbow Bridge. It was a long boat ride, but so worth it! It was fun to see the bridge and the kids really liked it. It was a nice cooler, cloudy day which was great because it's about a 1 mile hike into the bridge. 

It was so wonderful to spend all week with our little family.  It's always great to have Danny home from work. We really soaked in the family time and enjoyed every second together. 

Lizzie was such a brave 4 year old on this trip. She learned to water ski, kneeboard, and she loved tubing. She also went down the slide not he back of the house boat, and jumped in the lake over and over everyday! She was awesome, we're so glad she is comfortable in the water and knows how to swim. 

We can't wait for our trip next summer! It's one of our favorite places to go! We love Lake Powell!