Lake Powell 2012

Bed time stories with Grandma!

I think Sam is as big as Claire!  One day while we were there Claire asked to play with the baby, so Maisy got her her baby doll and she said no! the big baby, meaning Sam.

The first day Abby was off before we got a swim diaper on her, she thought her huge diaper full of water was so funny!

Trying to get Sam to crawl.

The Sun boat

Sleeping in a diaper with a fan right next to his crib.  The only way to go!

Sleeping in grandpa's arms

Sleeping in Grandma's arms

Swimming from one shore to the other

From this to...

This! It only happened once

Stu Slaloming

Me wakeboarding

On our way to Rainbow bridge all the kids zonked out!

Daddy daughter time

Love this!

The dinosaur foot print

Resting on the hike back from Rainbow bridge

Ready or not here she comes

Oh Dan!

Nakie baby!

Bath time!

Stu wakeboarding

Sam's new found love, Capri Suns!

We had a great time in Lake Powell this year.  Abby just loves Lake Powell!  She is such a water baby!  She continues to ask me all the time when we are going to back to Lake Powell and staying on the Sun boat. (That is the house boat, it has a picture of a sun on it.)  Sam had a good time, but the nights were really hard.  Sam I am sure was just hot and uncomfortable so he didn't sleep well.  After one really bad night, mostly for grandma since she was the one who sacrificed and slept inside with Sam we decided to go home a day early.  It just wasn't worth it!  But the days were fine.  Sam took great naps and liked playing on the beach.  I think Abby could live on a beach and I would never see her.  She was in heaven, she had her cousins there all the time to play with, sand and water.  A perfect combination!  One day we took a day trip to Rainbow bridge and had ice cream at Dangling Rope.  Abby loved that.  She could remember from the year before that there was a dinosaur foot print at Rainbow bridge and wanted to see it again.  She just loved to jump in the water.  It didn't matter were we were she would always just jump in and swim around.  The first day we got there she swam from our shore all the way across to the other shore with some of the older cousins and Aunt Michele.  I couldn't believe that she pretty much swam the whole way by herself.  She got a little tired on the way back so Aunt Michele had to help a bit more but she is a pretty good little swimmer, that is was a life jacket or her puddle jumper on.  It was so fun to be with the family, we always have such a fun time there together. It's late and I am sure there are a lot of error in this but I'm tired and going to bed!