Lake Powell Round 2!

We got to spend 4 fun filled days at one of our favorite vacation spots....and thanks to Grandpa finally giving in we now have a houseboat to stay on...Yeah! No sand in our beds and food. As you can see we spent a lot of time playing in the sand and water.

My brother Mike on top of the mountain looking out over our campsite.. all the fantastic photos are by my sister in law
Summer Potter our professional photographer.

Grandpa's boat out for a cruise on the lake...we have spent a lot of fun times on this boat for 20 plus years...yes he keeps fixing it.


One of the kids favorite activities was getting rides or driving around the lake on jet skies. Our timid Mikayla who wasn't fond of tubing or knee boarding if you went fast would drive the Wave Runner at full throttle...it surprised us all.
And Tristan loved to ride the "fast" purple jet ski....He would put his hand over mine and pull the throttle back...I guess we have little speed demons.
Poor Tristan wasn't as fond of the purple jet ski after Mom tipped us over in the lake...which I couldn't get back on so I had to swim it back to shore.
Even little Carter loved riding the jet skies. He is a busy little guy just like his mom was at this age...see Wendi it is payback time. The entertainment crew...Mike and Summer took the kids on lots of tube and knee board rides behind the jet ski!

Mikayla, Eden and Allie going for a tube ride.

Playing together on the house boat...
Eden, Dillan and Mikayla

Tristan found a spray bottle on Grandpa's boat and thought it was a great way to keep cool without having to get in the lake.

The kids would look for lizards every afternoon and they found this lovely specimen...got to love Mariah's face. She actually loved the lizard and is being a ham.

Everyone had to hold the lizard and have their picture taken with it. We had a slide on the back of the houseboat and we had fun going off it all afternoon one day.. the kids would put a bucket over the side of the boat and then dump it down the slide before they went down. After a while the bucket and throwing water at each other was more fun.

Mikayla and Eden knee boarding on the "whale" board.

Dillan kneeboarding.Melissa and Mike were the only ones that weren't injured or pregnant so we got a lot of ski time this trip...and Mariah learned to ski behind the jet skies but we didn't get any pictures :(

I make a lot of funny faces while skiing apparently.
The things you learn from seeing pictures of yourself up close.Mike Potter

Trip to Lost Eden Canyon, it has these cool caves that you can boat into and the water is deep and cold which is great to go swimming in when it is 100 outside.

Wendi and Mom just getting back in the boat after cooling off...

The kiddos riding to Defiance House Ruins in Forgotten Canyon...

Melissa and Tristan on Grandpa's boat...

Defiance House Ruins in Forgotten Canyon...Melissa, Wendi holding Carter, Carrie and Summer.

Mike in one of the restored Indian ruins.

Mikayla and Eden at Defiance House

We had a great trip and lots of great memories with the Potter family. We had a three pregnant women, three ladies without husbands and a Grandpa with a bulging disk in his back so Mike and I got to do most of the manual labor. Next year should be even more exciting if all these babies come to the lake with us.