fun in the sun.

lake powell 2013 was incredible as always. it's a lot of work getting ready and a long way to go. but to be away, i by away i mean from cell reception, is soooo worth it. no work, emails, texts, fb, instagram, nothing but family time. a-mazing. thanks to ryan and sara for all the fun!

here are some of the fun we had. beware, there's a lot of pics to go along with all of that fun :)

the wave runners were sooo much fun this year! 

nice to take the kids out for some one-on-one time.

this is how will got around on the boat.  

you just had to watch out for him, he's sneaky and fast! 

and he was coming for your ankles!

one of connor's lizards. ben and connor caught 3 that they named: shaky, dependable, and cuddly. but then dependable's name got changed to speedy cause he wasn't so dependable! :)

off to set the crawdad trap. 

sadly the trap now resides at the bottom of lake powell...

...along with the go-pro. may they RIP. 

and let me just say, that if lake powell ever drains, hopefully that never happens, 

but if it did, there's some serious loot down there!

this is lizard island from 2 years ago. the water has come down just a bit {a ton} since then!!

my wakeboarder.

the slide is always fun. we couldn't get mabel to go off it, maybe next time...

ryan and cory "playing" with the wave runners. 

makes me smile watching always having fun together.

best flag holder on the boat.

during the last rain storm.

cory got to play with the camera a bit.

connor floating away. and no, we didn't let him drive alone, 

cory was about to swim and get him.

elsie loved the hot tub on top the houseboat.

cory and i love the panoramas from here. 

gives a little better glimpse of the amazing, awesomeness that is lake powell.

building a sand castle.

will always made his way down the hall 

so he could look out the window and see what was going on.

we had some seriously amazing skies while we were there.

mabel's catfish.

connor's catfish. we later grilled them up. yummy!

collecting her shell treasures.

connor practicing his bb gun shooting. 

cory checking his shot with the binocs.

this was will's playground!

late tube ride for the day.

halfway through the week we changed spots. this is our second and final spot.

connor and cory went exploring one afternoon. they were looking for arrowheads in the same spot we found one a couple years ago. they didn't have any luck with the arrowheads, but found this awesome fishing lure!

ben and connor shooting the guns. 

we brought cory and ryan's bb guns from when they were little.

sorry for the pic overload. have to journal a bit before my forgetful brain does what it does best. we had such a fun trip!! thanks again ryan and sara!!