Lake Powell

Have you ever been to Lake Powell? I haven't...until last week! We made our first trip ever and joined most of Darren's family. Our brother-in-law works out there and was able to secure a houseboat for us all to stay on - for free! It was so nice to have a kitchen and a bathroom to use while "roughing it"!!!

We had all kinds of things to play on for our stay. A water trampoline being one of them. We also had a jet ski, two boats (wakeboarding, kneeboarding, tubing, and surfing), a beach (hours of fun), and a hike to a natural arch just a mile or two away from campsite.

Luckily I got a few pictures of Jace early on. He ended up with a really bad diaper rash (courtesy of being wet all day long) and had to go commando for a day and a half! I couldn't even put his swim trunks on because his rash continued half -way down his inner thighs. Poor little guy. I think he quite enjoyed his newfound freedom and was very amazed at being able to watch himself use the restroom.....


The beach proved to be a great spot for the kids to gather seashells, dig pits, create rivers and make mudbaths.

Here they are enjoying the fruits of their labors!

Abby decided to try her hand at wakeboarding. She gave it a good shot but wasn't able to stay up.



Brooklyn on the boat - Ty snacking. One of our favorite activities while boating!

I unfortunately did not take a picture of our houseboat - I don't know why not. But we did have top deck with a hot tub, and a slide that dropped you off into the lake. The drop off was actually quite high, I thought, (probably 4 feet) for little kids but Abby loved it. Brooklyn braved it one time and it wasn't a great experience so she was done with it. Jace thought he wanted to go down the slide but I wouldn't let him. There were also four rooms with queen sized beds, couches and tables that changed into beds, 2 bathrooms and a kitchen. The men all slept on the top deck under the stars.

All in all we had a great time and I was thankful that we didn't go in the middle of summer because it was still plenty hot in September!