Lake Powell and some fiascos

We recently went to Lake Powell as a family. This was a last ditch effort at a family vacation before our little one comes! Here I am 3 weeks from my due date and taking the kids to Lake Powell...my friends and family think it's kind of crazy, but we had a lot of fun!

Among the fun things were: a day on the lake in a boat..the kids tubed and Ivy and Josh got the prize for staying on the tube the longest! We saw lots of wildlife, jack rabbits and lizards and ants! The kids loved the wildlife, I have about 100 pictures on my camera to prove it. We played on the beach and the kids made a really awesome mud castle that took hours. Here is a picture of the finished product. We collected shells on the beach for hours, and are making frames out of our shells to frame a picture from the trip. We played lots of card games, especially one Dustin made up, the kids loved the new card game. I beat the tar out of all of the kids at Blokus. That is not me taking advantage of poor innocent children that have never played the game, it's my sheer expert-ness! JK.

We were lucky to have borrowed my parents camping trailer for the trip....which was a double edged sword. The trailer made our daddy a grouchy camper at times, but this was understandable and we can laugh about it now for sure. The Tahoe's battery died twice and we had a blow out on the trailer tire while on the road home. We couldn't empty the sewer from the trailer because we're clueless...and these were just a few of the fiascos. Oh, and we ran out of gas on the freeway...that was fun. Amid these crazy times, we did manage to have a great time and are thankful for the fun and for the family!

Oh, did I mention that the kids were dangling their feet over a 700 foot drop ledge when we caught up with them on the trail to horseshoe lookout? The craziness of a large family...should this be laughed at? Only later, over Sunday dinner and many weeks later! Hah hah.