Lake Powell 2015

During the first part of August, we went to Lake Powell with my parents! We had a marvelous time!

The kids and I loved every minute of the trip. 

Some of the highlights of the trip included:

Swimming in the water; which included sliding down the slide of the house boat.

Tube Wars

Hyrum loved it when he was able to tube with the big kids!  Ben and Hyrum loved every minute of tubing.

Emmy wasn't a big fan of tubing.

Knee boarding- Both Ben and Emmy knee boarded for such a long time. 

Playing in the mud and making creations

Emmy loved finding sea shells!

Spending time with family. We loved playing Mafia with everyone at night.

Going fishing in the dark

Watching Lance gut his fish!

Even I wake boarded

Millie is the wake boarding pro!

Papa still has amazing water skiing skills!

Just riding in the boat

Ben helping the girls wash their hair

Helping Papa drive the boat

We look forward every year to our trip to the Lake Powell. 

We are lucky to have a papa and grandma who take us with them.   We loved every minute of our trip!

Water Party

During the month of July, I had each of the kids invite a couple friends over so we could have a water party.

I saw some fun ideas for a water party on Pintrest and wanted to try them out.


We played a few different types of water relays.

We also played a water balloon catch contest. After each complete catch, the kids had to take another step away from each other.

Another game we played was Sponge Ball (dodge ball).  I made these cool sponge balls by cutting up sponges and tying them together.  If you were hit by a sponge ball, you were out.

We also played the game Dribble, Dribble, Drench (just like Duck, Duck, Goose, ) which surprisingly was a lot of the kids favorite. 

Of course we had to have a water fight with balloons too! 

To finish the day, the kids ran through the sprinkler and slid on the water blob that Brandon and I made.  The boys seemed to really enjoy it, the girls weren't so sure. 

Besides playing games, we had lunch for our guest. We feed them Pigs in a Blanket, Watermelon, Popsicles and had kool-aid for the drink. 

Overall, it was a great day to celebrate the beauty of summer.