Boating is the Best!

Even with Grampy's boat available, we just don't get out on the lake enough. Saturdays are usually dedicated to hitting the gym, doing yard work, cleaning the house, and getting any errands done that I didn't during the week. Busy days indeed. Fortunately, we have some friends that gave us the extra motivation to forget what we should be doing, and finally do what we want to be doing.

We planned to head out on a better day of the week, Friday, and get in a few hours on Utah Lake in the late afternoon. We drove down to the dock and just as we pulled up, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle. It started to rain! What?! Rather than give up the day completely, we decided to go swimming at Lifetime. It wasn't raining there and the kids had a blast playing together while us adults chatted on the side. After they got a good long swim in, we hopped on over to Zupas for dinner. The kids were all in their jammies and running like crazy outside. They then collapsed all together on the lawn...

Sarah, Capri, Danny, Roman, Koko, Sam

Koko and Sarah, these girls are only 2 months apart and are already great friends!

Capri and Danny...always end up next to each other! 

Tucker and Brian-total twinners!

Annelise and I-twinners again!

Boating attempt #2 was much more successful. We went on the 24th of July and this time the Ford's joined us. It was awesome. I hadn't been wakeboarding in years and I had a couple of great runs-it was so much fun!! 

Look at these four...great friends that will hopefully be boating together for a very long time!

And the same goes for these three girls...

And these...

Karoline was a bit nervous at first-we obviously need to go out on the boat more often!-but she was happy with her Daddy holding on to her!

This picture makes me laugh! Roman went out on the tube with Tucker and he got a bunch of water in his face so the next time around, he insisted he wear his goggles! They weren't even moving, just floating around, but he was confident in those goggles!

Roman spent most of his time in the back of the boat, watching the wakeboarders behind.

Here I am with my cautious little girl who doesn't love the cold water-she gets that from me...AND her dad! Getting our legs wet was all she needed.

Just look at that glass behind these two-we had a quick trip, but it was worth it for water like that! More importantly, it was awesome bonding time for all of us, just like you see here with Capri and her Daddy.