Back to Powell...

We spent nine fun days at Lake Powell the end of July.  We ate good, the water was warm and the weather wasn't too horribly hot. Braden is getting better and better at wakeboarding, he can cut in and out of the wake like a pro. I bet next year he'll start jumping.  Berk loved wakeboarding with Rusty and wake surfing with Kelcie and Rusty. Brenner loved jet ski rides, swimming, and wakobarding/wakesurfing with whoever would take him. Most of his tantrums were because he didn't want to wait his turn! There were 17 of us there for most of the trip and it is always fun to see the boys make some new friends. Like Kelcie's roommates, who my kids clung to!

The water level had risen about 30 feet since we were there in June. It was crazy to see it that high, since it's been about 10 years since we saw levels anywhere near it. Aside from my pregnant brain forgetting so many things for the trip- like my cameras (gasp!), playing cards and a bunch of other stupid things- we managed to get by...

 All ready to drive over to unload onto the houseboat.

 TUBING!

 Playing on the 'beach'

 Rainbow Bridge

 Wake Surfing

 Jet ski rides

 Playing on the cliff in the cave

 Riding on the boat

 Swimming!

 Braden rocking it at wakeboard- he looks so much like Rusty when he is out there, it's hilarious!

 Everybody else wakeboarding.

 On Saturday (we were due to leave Sunday) we had our first big injury of the trip.  Kelcie was wakeboarding and crashed hard. When we got back to her she was bleeding everywhere. Her friends Sam and Stacey (who are inches away from being RN's) dove in the water with Russ right behind them. It took a bit to see just where the blood was coming from. We got her in the boat and made the 30 minute cruise back to the big boat. Dr. Beck used what he could of the pitiful first aid kits to get her closed up. But not before showing us her skull... Yeh, I was downstairs by that point trying not to puke! She was ok by the evening but we decided to drive the houseboat in to the dock so we could her her some medicine and stuff.

Thank heavens we had a great week. I spent a lot of it on the houseboat reading, watching tv and playing with Brenner.

Thanks again TIreless for a good time. Huge thanks to Sam, Stacey, Meredith, Nichole and Mitch for helping so much with my kids.  Oh, yeah, did I mention Braden has a new girlfriend? She's pretty awesome, if he were just 12 years older.  Love ya Sam!