A Day at the Lake

Price finally mastered a 360 on the knee board. He totally rocks!!

Price

Sydney and her cousin, Slater

Marley was a pro at knee boarding. It is so fun that our kids are getting old enough to do fun things. Sydney and Marley want to learn to wake board this summer.

I have kind of always thought that when our kids all were old enough to ride a bike we have finally made it. Learning to have fun being drug behind a boat could be considered a similar step. Three down only two to go!!!

Here we are getting the boat ready to launch. My brother, Taylor and his family came with us for the day.

The pictures got mixed up when i was downloading them and I don't have time to fix it. Obviously this one was supposed to be first.

This is Sydney, Ellie and Steel with Price behind Ellie on this "really cool" tube that came with the boat. It is called the UFO. It is supposed to go around in circles with 4 people on it. The only problem is that it took on tons of water so half of the tube would sink and the other half would ride really high and it wouldn't turn. The people on top had a fun ride while the two on bottom felt like they were going under. It took us a while to figure out what was going on so we ended up breaking a rope in the process.

This is the only picture I got of Syd knee boarding. She tried it for the first time on this day and she did great. The next day she complained about how sore she was and had a killer sun burn because we missed her shoulders.

Since Taylor came with us Rob got a chance to wake board and knee board. I haven't learned to drive the boat yet. It makes me a bit nervous.

Rob's mom used to take all of the kids, eight of them, to the lake by herself. Before the kids were old enough, she would grab someone who worked at the marina to back the boat from the trailer while she parked the car. Then she taught her kids to do it while they were young. She even took the kids camping on the lake by herself while Rob's dad worked during the summer. She got teenage boys from the ward to come along and help her set up camp. They loaded the boat up with supplies so there were only a couple of inches left between the top of the boat and the water and stay on the lake for the week. Rob's mom was not a wimp and she was not chicken. She is one of my heroes.

Eliza tends to fall asleep whenever she is on a boat. I guess it is the roar of the engine and the rocking of the boat, she just can't resist.