lake powell

last month we went to lake powell again with chris's family for 10 days of bliss on the house boat. we had a great time with the jensen, monroe, gunnerson, and aguiar(or just andrea) families! paisley did really well, better then expected, she of course was fussy by the end of the car rides, and didn't hardly sleep the first night, but after that she slept through the night most of the time. she got her own room, which really helped and she learned to sleep in just a onesie-because of the insane heat. she took her 2 naps in the day, and depending on the noise/heat she did pretty dang good-yeah! here is a sampling of photos from the trip, there are entirely too many and they are in no particular order.

chris at the end of the trip-mountain man style. robin, our trusty captain!

it was REALLY hot, luckily, you just jump in the water and you feel fine. notice that the outside temp says HH.H, pretty sure that means hot, hot, hot!

paisley showing off her big girl h&m swimsuit. shes so cute!

there was lots of wake boarding, not chris's favorite, but of course he is naturally good at it.

andrea and i both remembered how to get up, and were able to master going in and out the wake-we're so rad!

there are lots of rocks to climb, but apparently they get pretty hot in the afternoon-after about 15 minutes of exploring, i jumped in the water and found this lovely on the bottom of my foot:

yeah, its a blood blister, burned from the rocks.

being the type of gals that we are, we almost never do anything without a photo shoot, so here a a few select pics from miss andrea and i. [have i mentioned that i am SO happy that andrea could come with us, it was great to have her!]

paisley caught her first fish. she was pumped. she was a bit thrown off by how the fish felt though.

reelin it in!

paisley got lots of quality time with dad, and loved spending more time with uncle jason-especially when he had a book on his lap.

lots of cards, lots of games, lots of sudoku, lots of fun.

chris did some fishing research before we left, it paid off. we had grilled fish and fish tacos-yum! [josh came back from fishing with a hook in his knee-ouch!]

big cat fish off the boat--my man loves him some fishing!

paisley started crossing her ankles when she ate, so lady like! love that smile:)

so the funny story is, that my bud andrea actually grew up coming to this exact house boat as a kid. my in-laws bought a time share from the family that her family use to come to lake powell with. so tradition was to have all the kiddos line up according to height, it was just andrea, but we had to carry out tradition.

the lake water was perfectly refreshing for the adults, but just a bit to chilly for a little baby body. paisley was a good sport and got in several times-plus check out her sweet floaty.

she is the cutest!

this was a regular activity. first we have mike, jason, and josh back flipping it. and then keith and robin[check out that form!].

chris showing his back flip. too bad no one got a shot of andrea and i doing ours. dang.

the whole crew. what a fun bunch!

paisley's favorite time of day, bath time! we filled up one of the over sized coolers and she would just play and play-she loved it and it helped to cool her off before bed.

more fish, isn't he handsome!

pais with grandpa and aunt annie.

paisley loves uncle al!

our little piece of heaven. these three boys are too funny. jason looks like he is standing on the rock, followed by mike and josh.

it got pretty adventurous, first is an attempted pyramid-they got so close and then mike and jason criss crossing one another.

bev monroe=my hero. she is rad! she is a great healthy cook. i am hoping to be like her one day and learn how to make her bread-so fabulous! can't say enough about this lady:)

once mike left we subbed in chris and tried the pyramid again. josh and chris are skiing on the outside, while jason knee boards on the inside.

boo-ya.

i think the fact the josh and chris are identical in size really helped. it only took 2 tries for this to happen:

too funny! we were dying laughing, we had to go get the knee board so we threw them the flag!

wonderful vacation! i think it was be harder in years to come as the family has more and more babies, but hopefully we can still manage it becuase it was blissfull.