Sunday, July 20, 2008

Lake Powell with the Nelsons!

I love this picture.

Hayley took this picture of the view from my parent's condo.







Have you ever wondered why a lure has two hooks?!


Look what Greg reeled in!! Soo Funny! Good Omen for the start of our trip.









We met our great friends the Nelsons at Lake Powell. Matt and Shanna and their girls Andee, Jamie and her friend Briannne. They also have Kristie who couldn't come.They had a great ski boat and they are all great at water sports...they were fun to watch.






This is Shanna...this girl can ski!














Beaux wasn't quite ready to get in the water.


My old man wake surfing...he got up on his first try!!


Greg wake surfing.


Me wake surfing.

(i got up once..for a few seconds)

Greg finally got up this year!


I would be a rich girl if I could design a boat simulator to put kids to sleep.


Beaux and Sloane



Rise and Shine!









Indi and Griffin going for a hike, then a long swim back.



The cookie jar.



Shanna and the girls. I think Sloane's tongue is red from eating all of their Swedish fish.



The girls falling in love with Andee.


















There is a picture of me when I was about Sloane's age driving our boat that looks a lot like Sloane. As soon as I find it I want to compare,





My girls LOVE the tube...they sing, dance, wave and do many hand signals.





Andee and one of her little bugs.





Is that a trout jumping?!!








Nope...just Uncle Matt trying to out do my back flip off the front of the boat.


Gotta give the old man credit though :)


He said he didn't want to be posted on my blog.



Her life jacket was so bouyant...I had to make this face.


She would plug her nose and we would count to three!




Beaux was so over tired she wouldn't let me hold her or lay on the comfortable pillow I brought. She tried a few places to take a nap.






She ended up here.









When we are at Lake Powell we call Indi "fish." This trip she wanted to learn how to dive.




After a few belly flops....




She got it!!









Andee doing a cool shore start!




Greg trying to look cool trying to do a shore start.






Me and my three monkeys.















Getting ready to try to ski.


It was really easy for me to get up....you can tell by my face.


Yes...hell has frozen over.


I am showing my THIGHS on my blog.












Baca and Tu Tu





Sloane spent a lot of time on the deck...she was slow to get in the water this summer.


Indi let Beaux push her in the lake and Beaux would love it.





Beaux thought Sloane would enjoy to be pushed in too!!


She didn't.


The freaky mysterious hand in the hole!




Fun to play with though!















Our Sumo Wrestler baby we adopted.Eating sushi and tempora fried Oreos at the Blue Buhda! YUM!Thanks so much for such a blast of a trip! We had soo much fun!

We love Baca and Tu Tu!

Sorry I didn't have many pictures I wanted to post. :)

8 comments:

sillyhaywardfamily said...

Did I read that right Sushi...Yum!!! WHAT!!!! You ate fish? I am very jealous it looks like you guys had so much fun!!!!

Terra said...

Looks like a blast! Nice work on the waterskiing! I'm impressed!

hayleyrowan said...

that trip looked like so much fun. loved all of the pictures. waterskiing is hard so nice work getting up. impressive.

Anonymous said...

This trip was so much fun! I just wish i didn't have to leave early so that i could have seen that sumo baby you adopted! haha

Andee Belle said...

El- Yeah that was so much fun! I am going to need some copies or email me some of those cute pictures! Tel my sugar bigs I love em' and can't wait to see you guys- Have fun tonight..hope you get lucky with John :)
Loves, Andee

megan said...

What a fun trip!! I wish we would have run into you. I love lake powell. Elle you've still got it back flip and awesome skier. We need to hit the lake together with your family and mine. You can bring the adopted sumo child too. (what a "crack" up, I am still laughing.) You look great by the way what is the secret? Next step on the ski pull a heel stretch with your back leg. I will post a picture of mine as soon as my sister gets it to me. Love all the pictures you took your girls are so cute. Way to go Greg on the ski too. It is hard Todd has given up and maybe this will inspire him.

Downs Family said...

I Love Lake Powell. All of your pictures make me want to go down again soon, maybe we will have better luck than last year. I think we should totally make a boat simulator, we could make millions because it always makes kids fall asleep!!

Shannon said...

So Jealous, that trip looks like an absolute blast, I love the sleeping babies. Can't wait to read about the John Mayer concert, I'll having stay posted.