Lake Powell

Nick and I took Jaxson to Lake Powell over the weekend. My Mom, Colby, Dani, Derek, Gabe, My Aunt and Uncle and some of my cousins had already been down there since Monday. We decided that Ella was still too little to come so Nick's Mom was nice enough to come all the way from Chicago and stay with Ella...and spoil her to death! I have to be honest, I wasn't looking forward to leaving my little girl for the weekend, I knew I was going to miss her like crazy, which I did. But she had so much fun with her Grandma and I knew that she was being very well taken care of.
Jax couldn't wait to get there and see all of his cousins, this was his first trip to Lake Powell so he didn't know what to expect and he was confused when we told him we would be staying on the houseboat since he had never seen it before. He didn't much care for the long drive and he constantly asked "are we there yet?" luckily he had some DVD's to watch. It was late when we got down there so he really couldn't see the lake, but he did walk all around the houseboat looking at everything. He spent a few minutes playing with his cousins and he was upset when we told him he needed to get to bed so we could have fun the next day. He was a unsure about swimming in the lake at first, but after a little while he was like a little fish! All the kids had fun riding in the tube, taking turns on the waverunners, playing in the sand running around the houseboat like monkeys. They all had to live in their lifejackets, they only took them off to sleep but they didn't seem to mind them much.
We surfed behind the boat...actually everyone else did...I just looked like a giant spaz when I did it. We even got Nicky doing it and he had a lot of fun! I got to do the kneeboard for the first time in several years, I had forgotten how much fun it is. The weekend went by way too fast and we were sad to have to go home, but we missed our little princess and we couldn't wait to get home to see her. It was so much fun to be down there with family and we had a blast!