1st annual trip to Lake Powell

We took our first annual trip to Lake Powell with the Armstrong family this past weekend. We had such a GREAT time. Thanks Armstrongs for bringing your boat down and letting us have such a wonderful time together. Our boys haven't stopped talking about what fun it was to camp and boat with you guys. You guys are AWESOME and we can't wait to make it a tradition.


Here are some of the kids and Darrel enjoying some time in the tube. Zachary DID NOT like the tube or being in the water but being such good parents we "forced" him to do both.
After a fun day on the water Zachary was plum wore out.
This is the view from our campground spot. BEAUTIFUL!!! It's funny though, during the day it was hot, hot, hot, and at night it was really cold. It was cold from the minute the sun went down until the sun came up again, but the minute the sun came up it was HOT...and I do mean from the minute the sun came up.
Walking along the ridge of the rock where we stopped to swim, fish, make sand-blobs and throw them on the rock, jump off the cliff, tan on the boat, eat snacks, etc.
This is the fire ring that Alex made the morning after we arrived at the campground. We left home about 4:30 and got to the campground on Thursday night about 10:00 - Alex woke up at 5am the next morning and put this little fire ring together. He was pretty disappointed when we told him that we were only allowed to have fires in the BBQ area. It turned out to be fine, although a fire when camping would have been pretty fun. We had to roast our marshmellows over the BBQ thing. Oh well, it was still fun.

Some sandcastles that Zachary made with Alyssa. She was so good with Zach the whole weekend. She played with him without being asked and really watched over him the whole time. She is an angel girl.
Here is our campsite. It was a great campsite except for stickers that were everywhere buried in the sand. We had them all over our shoes. They punched holes in our air mattresses, through the tent even. When you stepped on them they were SO painful. Other than that...great view, great place...fun!!!
The little boys went fishing...didn't catch anyting, much to their disappointment, but had a fun time trying.

FUN weekend!!