Lake Powell 2009

We had an awesome time at Lake Powell this year. For once in our lives we had NO HICCUPS! It was a miracle! Usually every year we come across at least a few major problems but this year everything was pretty much smooth sailing! The weather was a little cooler than usual but we actually enjoyed the water being only a few degrees cooler then the air...it make the water feel really warm!

We were few in number this year as Nat and Robby stayed home as did Nate and Landon. We missed them! Here is a little picture recap:

We stayed in the same spot we did last year and had this as our view: SO beautiful!

We got some good fishing in. They boys had fishing poles (with just sinkers on...no hooks) and they spend HOURS casting out their lines and reeling it back in. They loved it! We did catch a few fish with the real fishing pole too. We got some carp and blue gill....the usual. The boys loved hanging out with their uncles. They are lucky to have such great young men to look up to! They had fun hanging out with Mason and Preston too!
The skiing/boarding/surfing/air chairing/tubing was incredible! There is no where that even compares! We were able to get Dallin to TRY ON the wakeboard....but that is about as far as he would go...poor guy. As soon as he realized he was going to have to float in the water WITH that huge thing attached to his legs he changed his mind. O well.....hopefully we'll get him out there soon.

Grandpa Rock put on quite the show as usual. I don't think there are many guys out there who have a Grandpa who can ski like he can! He is awesome! We played the 2nd annual Red Rock Challenge which was a huge hit. This years challenges included: starring contest, casting contest (furthest and most straight), American Gladiators (first to push the other one off the raft wins), root beer chugging, icky poo challenge (we used those sticky hand things...first to grab the most pieces of paper is the winner), shaving cream sculpting contest, and many more. Preston and I won! Woo woo!

We had a Mexican Fiesta one night. Uncle James cooked us up some authentic Mexican tostadas. We rocked out to some Mexican hits and enjoyed some corn on the cob smothered in mayo and cheese (insert puke noise here). The chicken was great but I wasn't a fan of the corn.
It was another great year down at Powell!

We've been going down to Powell for so many years now. Sometimes the years kind of blend together so I wanted to document a couple of things that made this trip......unique.

We saw a fish that was acting like a shark. It was swimming with its fin out of the water. Luckily we spotted the fish while we were IN the boat. If I had seen it while I was in the water I'm sure I would have been freaking out.

Next......we had a dead deer near the entrance of our canyon. We've never seen a deer before. We are thinking that a flash flood caused the deer to fall over the canyon wall and the deer probably swam over to the shore and starved since there is nothing to eat. The water was going up about 2 feet every day. As soon as the water swallowed up our deer we left that canyon......good thing. YUCK!

We had a wonderful vacation. The boys and I had such a fantastic time! THANK you Grandma Lee Lee for watching Landon for us this year! It's always nice to get away for a few days. We were so happy to come home to our hardworking Daddy!