Lake Powell 2010

If you know me very well, you know I am not a water person. I really wasn't excited to go to Lake Powell this year. I just knew it would be hot and none of us would sleep well and we would all be ornery. Clint made some point about regretting making our kids miss out on fun things or something. So we all went. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. Actually we all had a lot of fun. It wasn't too hot either. It stormed quite a bit. It was kind of funny because Clint told me we wouldn't want jackets or blankets. haha We needed both. ( I snuck them into our stuff when he wasn't watching thank goodness)

This was probably within five minutes of getting on the houseboat. He loved playing with the steering wheel. I don't think he got bored the whole time we were down there.

Wyatt loved helping to drive and I think helped Grandpa every time we moved.

(we moved every day)

Kale's first fish of the trip.

These three were so cute watching....

these four.

Here's Kale's big catfish. It was so funny. He was trying to hold it while I took a picture but it kept slipping out of his hands. He probably dropped it on its head five times before we got a decent picture.

Here's Wyatt's first fish. He wanted to be like the big boys so bad!

This was Clint's biggest carp of the trip. You can tell how impressed Wy is. haha But this also shows just how big it really was.

Can you see the kids up there? There are four of them. I had to put my other lens on my camera to be able to even tell who was who up there.

My children do not take after me. They are all little water babies. Gar loved it and would just crawl straight into the water until the little waves would get in his face and I would bring him out.

He actually caught this catfish on his fishing pole but it was so big and fighting so hard that he couldn't get it in. So we grabbed his spear pole and someone held the fishing pole and he jumped in and speared it. It was the biggest catfish of the trip. I was going to post a different picture of Clint with this fish because the look on his face is so cute. He looks like a little kid but I knew someone would say something and I would get in trouble. But he was so excited about that fish!!

These were all the catfish he caught our last night there. He wanted a bragging picture to show his friends up here that he goes catfishing with. When they go they don't catch much and when they do they are pretty little. At least compared to these. 

The last morning we were sitting out on the front eating breakfast and the carp were swimming right by the boat. Wy wanted to catch one so bad. I tried but couldn't get one to take the hook. I went and got Clint and he helped and this is what they got. He is seriously too cute!! And you can tell he warmed up to being around the fish by the end.

As I am sure you can tell by these pictures they did a lot of fishing. I think at least one person was fishing from the time we got up till we all went to bed.

We kept life jackets on the kids pretty much the entire time we were down there. Kale and Darc were so comfortable playing in the water they would just swim around. Wy wasn't sure and wanted to be able to touch until the last two or three hours we were there. While they took the houseboat back where it was supposed to be we played in the water (it was way too hot to just sit out on the beach) And Wyatt finally got comfortable enough to swim around a little.

It was really a lot of fun. I loved watching my kids have so much fun!! Thanks Lloyd and Kalynn for the trip!!