Lake Powell Trip

I know it has been a couple months almost since this little excursion, but I have been slow at getting the pictures posted and wanted to share my trip. The end of September my family decided to take a week long trip to Lake Powell. My brother-in-law, has some major hook-ups and was able to get a house boat for all of us to stay on as well as a boat set for wake boarding and wake surfing, two jet skiis, and two wave runners. I have never been to Lake Powell before, but it was so beautiful and so much fun. It has been a long time since the whole family has been on a vacation together like that. It was fun to be able to just sit out on the deck in the sun and go exploring on the wave runners or walking on the beach. We found the most perfect spot, in my opinion, with a long strip of beach with the most soft sand. Anyway, here are some pictures of all the fun:







This is the boat in the boat yard before we took it out on the Lake.









Lots of beautiful scenery and sunrises. My brother and I slept on the upper deck of the boat and this is what we woke up to every morning. Gorgeous!







Of course our trip would not go with out some yummy food. And then my nephew shoveling all of it in his mouth at once....silly Wil:)



Another silly picture of Wil. He got this mustache out of a machine at the Pizza Hut we stopped to eat at on the way.




Wil thought it was hilarious to get all tied up with tape. And Elle was having fun with her bear, Creasy, playing in the sand.







Just some fun pics. Yes, my brother-in-law also provided us with Rock Band. We so totally lived it up that week......











More fun pics. And for the Grand Finale........







So Chad had this 'great idea'. Let's put the tube that you pull behind a boat and tie it up to the back of the wave runner and pull it off the top deck of the house boat:) Dayne was on the wave runner.....they did a practice run, without Chad on the tube.....it landed perfectly on the water without tipping. So next run Chad was on the tube.....that is what the video is of. It thankfully worked out without any injury:) But the second run with Chad on the tube.....didn't work out so well.....something weird happened....and Chad's food caught on the rail of the upper deck of the house boat and twisted him as he went off the boat.....and needless to say I think we all thought he would be hurt pretty badly when he hit the water.....he wasn't moving at all.....then you could tell he was in a lot of pain. So as you can see the bar mark and ripped up skin across his foot. Crazy.....so they decided not to do it again. Then of course we all jumped from the upper deck of the boat into the water....then Dayne and Chad and I think Ryan.....all jumped from the roof of the upper deck......crazies, but it provided great entertainment.

That, in a nutshell, was our trip, lots of fun. Thanks to my sister and brother-in-law who planned it all for us. It was great! I know I have more pictures from the trip, so I will probably randomly post some more later, but for now this will work.

Update on the J.O.B!

So I have some great news! I now, officially have Sundays off at my job. Crazily, this woman that has worked there for 8 years, quit and walked out one day! Her schedule included Sundays off. Which is why I could not have it. So I talked to my boss about re-arranging my schedule to get Sundays off. He agreed. He even went so far as to end an interview because the first question he asked the poor guy was, 'can you work on Sundays'? To which the 'interviewee' replied no. And that is where the interview ended. So now, we have hired someone who apparently can work on Sundays and now, starting this Sunday, I have Sundays off! So it seems that all things do really just work out even when you think they won't, they do! Now I need to see what I can do about getting a raise......hmmmmmmmmmm............

'Tis the Season for Weddings......

Unfortunately this one was not mine:) But it was fun, some of the pics didn't turn out as good as I wanted them too, but you get the picture. This was a reception for a couple of friends Bridger and Jordan, they are seriously such a cute couple and are great people. It was a beautiful reception.

Red Fish Lake

So a couple of my friends and I took a day trip to Red Fish Lake and Sun Valley on the 21st. We were planning a big trip to Denver and we were so excited to see some of our old friends, but our plans fell through. Sorry Tami:( I promise though, we are still planning on coming sometime:) So instead of the Denver trip, we decided to take a day trip up to Red Fish Lake and and Sun Valley. We rented a motor boat for $20 and took it out on the lake for about an hour, we first rented a paddle boat, and it was hilarious. We are still not sure if it was the paddle boat that was retarded or us, so we returned it and got the motor boat. It was nice, but I wish I could have spent a few days up there. Oh, well, looks like we will have to plan a couple of trips now......here are a few pics from the trip.















One might wonder what these last two pictures are of. Well, we picked up a buddy along the ride home. We were driving out of Sun Valley and this huge tumble weed attached itself to the front of our car and stayed there until it it broke off piece by piece.