Lake Powell 2008

WOW! The annual Lake Powell trip came upon me way too fast. I anticipate it for so long and then just like that ! it's gone. We had a great time. Sixteen people in all, 15 big people and 1 little four year old (who by the way, got spoiled like crazy). The Butler Clan came along with us. Paul and Jaxon came late Thursday night and were able to play with us Friday. As I look the pictures over, I realize there aren't too many action pictures; wake boarding, or tubing, or skiing, or on the "rocket ship". But, they are on the video camera. It's hard to take pictures when I'm holding a baby, and Grandpa's driving crazy!!

Kaja drove the houseboat to get us to our landing spot. She was top dog for 4 1/2 days.
Trevor Butler is in the background sleeping. Yes we'd only been on the boat 30 minutes and he was out!

There was a lot of time on the houseboat to get some reading, sleeping and visiting in. Christine was bound and determined to get the 7th Harry Potter book completed. SHE DID IT.

Tyler's telling Kyle some great stories. It was great to have the kids together again. It's been such a long time since our boys have spent some good time together.

Kevin has a week long class coming up in law school, so he rationed himself with 50 pages a day to read. Nicole finished one book and started another.

We took an early morning ride in the boat. Apparently Kaja couldn't wait to get dressed. She conned grandpa into taking us our for a joyride.

Kevin, of course, has to fish. Here he's using Kaja's BARBIE pole. He and Kaja caught some ugly catfish.

This is as good as Kaja and Grandpa could get on the water weenie, or as we now call it; the RocketShip.

Here's DA MAN! Yep, the guy who makes it all possible for us. He drives the boats and makes it all so much fun for all of us.

Here are the GIRLS in our cover ups. I made the Jeff's red and the Butlers' are yellow. Thanks Nicole for getting us together for this picture.

Jaxon liked the water for a minute or two at first, and then not so much. He was very good on the trip. And he too got special treatment from everyone!

Kaja and me taking a little down time reading. She's real interested!!!

OK! It's the last day and I told David I wanted to ski and didn't want to take the time to change so we rolled up our sleeping bag and I went skiing in my jammies. Yea, Yea! It's been awhile and I'm still on two skis. I'm too old to move on, they were lucky to have me do this much.