Lake Powell in June is nice because there aren't the frying August temps
but sometimes the water is cold.
This year, the temperature was perfectly warm
and so was the WATER!
Some personal favorite memories:
1. Paddleboarding in the Moonlight
2. Ben spear fishing a huge fish. It happened. With or without a picture:)
3. Tubing
4. Watching the kids
5. Bean Boozled
6. Sleeping under the stars
7. Early morning and daytime wakeboarding and skiing runs
8. Fishing
9. Beaver
10. Lake Powell Peace Talks
Paddleboards
were new this year
I liked how you could see the water better.
My favorite night was a full moon
Ben and I put the kids to bed and snuck out to paddle in the moonlight.
The water was perfect and the moon was light a giant flashlight in the sky.
Paddling into it was actually really hard to see, but at our backs, it was beautiful.
Which brings me to number 2
Paddleboards definitely helped seeing the fish for Luke and Ben's new obsession with
Spearfishing
This was clearly one of Ben's favorite things at Lake Powell because it has the word "fish" in it.
Tubing
We had a tame "royal rumble" this year
the grandkids had a blast tubing
But my favorite part was Callie
peacefully drifting to sleep every time they went
(can you see her?)
The perfect way to get a nap in.
Once the tube went under water with Cody and Blake and Mackayla.
Tyler jumped in to get them and as soon as we could see the kids
we saw Blake holding Mackayla telling her she would be just fine.
Blake had been really nervous about falling off the tube two years ago, so this was huge.
Mackayla still talks about how Blake saved her...and how much fun tubing was!
This leads to #4
Watching Kids
Of course I loved watching all the kids.
I loved watching them play together
I love watching all the things they get to try.
This was the first year for waterskiing for all of them.
Lucy did awesome, and cried the entire time she was up. She didn't know how to get down so she would just cry and beg to get down.
Just as I was thinking she would never get over this trauma, she asked to do it again!
Cody was so fun.
He hopped in the kayaks and kayaked all around.
This is the first year he has gone by himself and was a champ.
He came on a hike with me one day.
And went off the slide even though the time before he had face planted it;)
Logan had a fever half the trip, but you would never know it
he hardly cried considering.
Once he felt better he was the most angelic baby ever.
Let's not forget about these kids:
They spent a decent amount of time perfecting this game of catch-in-motion
Macey was in heaven when at our auction she won cotton candy.
Life is perfect.
Although she shared and ate it slowly in Macey style.
I talked her into the Lake Powell hair by telling her I would never have to touch her hair for a week if we did it. I didn't have to! She's already asked me to do it again:)
Cute Clara has some serious spunk and a bright future in acting should she so choose.
Mackayla loved the "speedy boat"
and loved tubing.
At our talent show, Callie sang a beautiful song
she made up on the spot
about a monster and a bunch of random things she saw.
Awesome talent.
This brings me to numero cinco
Bean Boozled
This game is so fun. Spin the wheel and choose a bean color you spun. It will either be delicious or disgusting and you don't know until you bite into it.
The winner chews five times and swallows successfully every time.
This should be played by everyone
including my husband
who didn't play this last time.
he will. hehehe
Callie was the only kid who actually played
and she got all the disgusting ones, even skunk
and every time it was her turn her mom would say she didn't have to go, but she would. She's barely 3.
Hil.ar.ious.
Sleeping under Stars
The last night we were there was the night we paddleboarded.
Then we got ready for bed and crept up top to our sleeping bags.
I put on my glasses and watched for a shooting star.
On cue, a huge star shot clear across the sky (that was clear that night:))
Wakeboarding and Skiing
An early morning run
"Cowboy Up"
This is when I'm sad I don't have a zoom lens.
Amy:
Luke:
Luke:
Ben
Ben
Tyler
Me
I'm so glad I went. This is me after...didn't even get my hair wet:)
Fishing
This was the most anticipated event for Cody.
At the family lake powell auction he fought for a fishing pole even though he already had one because he loves it so much.
Beavers
This year there was a little river draining in to the back of the canyon we were at.
And four or five beaver.
We kayaked back to see them. They are huge, I had no idea!
They would slap the water and dive in
Chatting
is always one of my favorite things to do at Lake Powell.
There is no technology there-no cell service, nothing.
and we rarely watch movies
It's a nice change of normal technology-life pace.
I love talking and catching up with everyone face to face.
Sandy is like family.
She isn't of our faith, but she lives our religion better than me!
I love talking with Sandy.
What would Lake Powell be without a little drama?
Dead batteries and being locked out is totally worth the price of fun.
Until next year...
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