Ok, a few more and that's it...

Sis, Had, and Kimbri getting ready to jump.

Here's a picture of the one who jumped. The other climbed back down. He didn't want to leave his first baby fatherless I guess.

Haddi skiing for the first time.

Getting ready to jump and Sis in mid-air.

We had a good time. It was a little windy and the water wasn't as warm, but all in all it was great. We managed to run out of gas twice on the way back from Rainbow Bridge. Luckily our friends, the Woolstenhulmes, had some extra and when we ran that out in the middle of the channel, they towed us to the marina and we loaded up in the dark that night. Some other memories I don't want to forget are the hot wings at Strombolli's, the pool side chat late at night (Tagg's crow story), Kami and I wrecking so hard that my shorts fell off and my eyes were burning...(thank you John), the fish that was trying to bite me in the water...(it was a stick), losing Monte twice (it's a BIG lake), witnessing Jan give Chad the "what for" for the first time in my life, getting flashed by Monte (something I won't be able to get out of my mind for a long time :), Tagg walking down the cliff and knowing that he will never live that down (as long as Chad is around), and my kids being so exhausted that they cried every night and crashed within 2 minutes of getting back to the hotel.

So when are we going again?

I forgot to add one highlight of our trip...It was all the girls could talk about that week. Chad was maybe following a little too close driving through road construction in Salt Lake City, and all the sudden he hit the brakes. We left some rubber on the pavement and that wasn't enough to stop us from ramming the car in front of us. So he swerved into the construction lanes, you know the lane that is seperated by those orange pylons, well he took out a few of those and I said a 4 letter word. They thought it was so cool.

More Lake Powell...

We found our favorite spots again to jump off cliffs. This one is up Navajo Canyon.

This spot is in a little cove on the way to Rainbow Bridge. The water is a lot higher this year so it wasn't as far to jump. We even got Jan and Kami to jump here.

Two climbed up here, only one jumped.

My fearless Indee. If Sis and Had can do it, then so can she!

Lake Powell 2008

Mia liked the water a little more this year. Whenever we take a picture of her, this is the face we get. "Say cheese."

Not sure...

This was Mia's favorite spot...kicking, kicking, kicking...

The kids played 'king of the tube' a lot!

Oops...trying again?

It's finally summer

We took a little day trip to Yellowstone with Chad's sister Kami and her family.

A little detour through Mesa Falls.

"Say Cheese Mia."

Sicilee the chef...I don't think so

Sicilee is my project girl. You can find her anytime, anyday hiding out making something. She will come up missing and she's working on her latest project. So lately she has wanted to cook. My mom gave her a beginners cook book for Christmas. That's where it all started...
She has tried and failed "muddy buddies" 4 times! 4 times! The last attempt I said "please Sis, just read the directions, ask me if you need help." The first 3 times, she put all the ingredients in with the Chex before melting them. We tried to melt them in the big bowl with the chex...doesn't work. The fact that she made this mistake 3 times in a month...tells me she's not getting it. This last time, she left the butter out and added the powdered sugar and microwaved that...was hard as a rock. Yesterday, she tells me she wants to make cookies...I instantly panicked. "Please no." She wanted to make the chocolate cookies with vanilla baking chips. Last time she tried them, she put 1/4 cup of almond extract and 1 tsp. of choco. (She only admitted that to me yesterday) My mom and dad were here to witness her baking skills. My dad said "just throw that whole thing in the garbage". Sis claimed she had followed the recipe. So her 2nd attempt started off rough and ended rougher. Apparently Faren told her that 3 1/3 cups = 1/2 cup. So the sugar was all off. I tried to rescue it..and it was ok..on to the baking part. She turned off the oven instead of the timer, so the 2nd and 3rd batches did not get cooked, the 2nd a little more than the 3rd. The oven was almost cooled off by the 3rd batch. She tried to cook more later and reheated the oven, remembering a little too late that the 4th batch of cookies was still in the oven and now were WAY over cooked and smoking.
She has tried to push her smoothies on us (bitter) and her macarroni and cheese. She put the macarroni in before she boiled the water (a sticky mess). Anyway, I could go on and on, I'm remembering more disasters as I type. But I broke it to her yesterday. I told her she might want to cross culinary arts off her list of potential careers.

In her defense, I might tell you some things she is good at: she's an excellent babysitter (just don't ask her to make dinner :), she can make the cutest cards and scrapbooks on her own. She makes jewelry. She is great at cleaning. She's an organizer and planner. She sings and plays the piano. She's a sweetheart too. She couldn't hurt a fly, very kind and caring.

Seriously...

Enough already! I am so sick of it! It's May 13th for crying out loud. UGH!!!