Lake Powell July 2010

Mid-July I took the kids and headed out to Powell for most of the week with my family. Cody had to work =( We sure missed him, but are looking forward to a lake trip this week that he'll get to come with on!

My sister Jeni and her husband Mike were able to make it out. It was great to see them! Since they lived in Reno we don't get to see them too often. But they are in process of moving to the SLC area, so we'll get to see lots more of them! yay!

Here are some shots of the kids as we were pulling out of the garage.




Rylee was SOOOO excited to go to "the beach" and Ryan was sooo excited because his sissy was! Man I love these kids!

As we pulled up to the beach at Powell there were dark storm clouds rolling in. My mom said she tried calling but we'd already left and were out of reception. She was going to tell us to wait a day or maybe not come, because it had been really windy. It rained/hailed on us pretty good for awhile, but after the storm passed, it was perfect!


The top pictures are of Rylee dancing in the rain! She couldn't get enough of it. The rest are of some of the fun times we had playing in the sun. Of course you can't go to Powell and not go cliff jumping! Well, I didn't go =) But I sure had fun watching. Turned out Ryan loved the boat when it was moving, but not so much when it was idle. He would throw a fit and only wanted Mom. He also wasn't a fan of the life vest. Rylee on the otherhand lived in hers! She couldn't get enough of the green raft, the water, the boat, and as you'll see in the next set of photos...the tube!

We were out taking the "older" kids tubing. We had left Ryan back at camp with Grandma. I decided it would be fun to have my dad pull Rylee and I on the tube from the booeys (sp) back to camp. Rylee thought it was the greatest! She wanted Grandpa to go faster, though he couldn't...and I got a little too complacent and wasn't paying enough attention to leaning back, and we got swamped! haha! I dove into the water and pulled Rylee off to keep her from getting pulled under. After that though she couldn't get enough and whenever we were heading in or out, so would get someone to take her on the tube. And grandpa would even pull her kind of fast just outside the booeys (sp).

Lake Powell is seriously one of my most favorite places to go! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us tag along and to all my family for helping out so much with my kids. Sure love you guys. I felt really bad that Cody wasn't there and missed out on so many fun memories, but I know we'll make more this week! I can't wait!