lake powell trip 2010 with sky high energy

i just returned from a wonderful week vacation from lake powell. it was probably the best lake powell trip i have ever been on for these reasons..

*i almost cleared the wake on the wakeboard the first time ever
*we stayed in a 5 star house boat. it was super nice, had a hot tub on top, 2 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, a slide, a huge kitchen and a flat screen tv for the boys to watch their football.
*i made a lot of new friends
*tube wars were the best thing everrr
*had dance parties with rachel and macy on the top of the houseboat errrday
*we had unlimited amounts of snacks
*we made the most delicious dinners every night
*i learned how to play poker, could have won 260 dollars.. but didnt
*the weather was perfect, not too hot ever!
*didn't have a care in the world for a week
*played the candy bar game and won all sorts of yummy candy
*got to relax in the sun every day all day
*oh and did i mention i only had to pay 10 dollars for gas? and that was it!!

this trip was amazing i was always on the boat watching everyone and their wakeboarding skills or laying out on the top of the houseboat! and if we were sick of the sun we would play cards together as a huge group and it was great. i was laughing the whole time and it was so drama free and i loved every second of it. the only thing that i was a little sad about was there was a full moon, so the stars weren't as incredible as they should be in lake powell.. but it was also cool to have the full moon! soo sad that its over but i am so glad i got the opportunity to go!

labor day 2010

to celebrate the day of no work or school, my mom, step dad, sister and i decided to be a little spontaneous and drive down the lake powell for the weekend. (it took a lot of convincing on my part to my step dad) we had not been for 5 years as a family and i was thinking it was about that time we needed to make a trip down there. so we did :) and once we got down there my step dad was just soo mad we hadn't been down more. lake powell is amazing. we started off by getting on the tube and tubing around the lake. we found a couple cliffs to jump off of and then we found a little island to make our home for the weekend. as soon as we set up camp, we see a man kayaking over to our island and he had been there for like 3 weeks by himself on his houseboat. kayla and i thought it was a little creepy but he seemed like a nice guy. we went to sleep that night just in awe at how beautiful the night sky is. no where else in the world have i seen the stars as gorgeous as they are in lake powell. we woke up early to go wake board and ski while the water was still very calm. after that we went and rented a new tube, for our 16 year old round one died the night before (very happy about it) and we spent a few hours getting whipped around on that. we boated around and found more cliffs to jump off of and went to the marina to get some ice cream. then it started to get very very windy and we headed back to camp only to find all of our stuff wrapped tightly in a rope! tom saw our stuff blowing around so he came and tied it all up for us so it wouldn't blow away. he ended up letting kayla and i use his kayaks to row around because we didn't really have much more to do with the wind being as horrible as it was. he then invited us over for dinner. that night when we were going to sleep, the wind would not let us. i couldn't do anything to escape the windy night so i pretty much stayed up the whole night star gazing. we left early the next morning because it was still windy and we wanted to miss the rush of getting off the lake. it was a fabulous trip and i am so very excited to go back in a couple of weeks with rachel and her friends!

UTES!

Tonight there was a utah football game against pittsburg. i was veryy nervous for it since pitt is ranked higher then the utes and they scored the first touchdown so i was scared! but not long after pitt scored, utes got 2 touchdowns so we were 14 to 7 for a while. Pitt scored a bunch of field goals and got it to 13, 17 and then we scored an awesome touchdown!! so it was 24 to 13. well pitt got right back and scored a touch down and then instead of kicking for the extra point, they went for 2. and made it.. so all they needed was a field goal to tie the game and put us into over time. well they did. and i was pulling my hair out i was so nervous!! luckily, utah had defense first and intercepted the ball and so all we needed was a field goal to win the game! and we did :) it was crazy. sitting in the fourth row is awesome and i love utah football games alot! cant wait for the rest of the season