Thursday, September 10, 2009

Lake Powell

Wow! I'm so behind on my blogging! At the end of July, Nathan and I went to Lake Powell with my side of the family. After enduring many years of nagging sisters, Grady was excited to have our cousin Ryan come keep him sane. It was such a blessing to have my Grandpa and Grandma Hansen with us as well! Maegy was very missed but she is working very hard on her mission and touching many lives....8 more months and she'll be back :)
We had the most wonderful time EVER! I have done this vacation for as many years as I can remember but this was Nathan's first time going with our family and I think he was pleasantly surprised. Sorry for the world's longest post...This is also my best attempt at a journal.

The boys watching Napolean Dynamite on the drive up


A really cool storm came one afternoon and made tons of these beautiful waterfalls...don't mind Al


The whole gang (other than Dad) cruising through The Escalante River


The Girls at Rainbow Bridge


Our tough MEN!!!


Always an adventure when Grady's driving...love him!



I forgot to warn Nathan of the tradition...ok, maybe I didn't "forget"


Just enjoying the ride



At Dangling rope


WHIT!!


My 83 year old grandpa...pretty cool!


Dad!!! Ok, maybe we shouldn't have been out that late...oops!


Mamasita


Alex!


Grady! (haha, he's even smiling)


Ryan!


Me and Grams


He's Cute


And after a couple of hard falls...

He learned some cool tricks!


The boys playing Texas Hold 'em...Grandpa couldn't win so he told us Grady and Ryan kept cheating


The book club...always hiding from the rest of us :)


Al trying to get a signal...what's a poor teenager to do when she's deprived of text messaging!


Gramps teaching the boys how to fish...so cute!


Just before Dad nearly killed us


Don't let their smiles fool you...they were plotting how to use alka seltzer to blow up the fish...I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty cool


The best captain in the world!


These two were too cute!


Kayaking might be fun??? I wouldn't know, these two were trying to tip us the whole time :)


I'll give you a quarter if you can guess what we're playing


Everyone just doing whatever they want!


The whole Family!