Lake Powell 2009

I didn't take a lot of pictures this year...seemed to do more video taping of the wakeboarding instead. Normally Dallas is the only one to really love wakeboarding and this year both Dylan and Tyler got into it. Both Dylan and Dallas are jumping the wake now. We told them that if they are able to jump it and land it, then we would buy them another gerbil....well we have added 2 girl gerbils to our family. Tyler did really well too...it was so fun to watch them progress and love it!!

Dylan jumping the wake

Tyler

Dylan with his fish

Marysvale 2009

Some pics of our trips to Marysvale a few weeks ago. We four-wheeled, hiked, relaxed, and ate some good dutch oven food. It is nice to get away from reality for awhile.

still has snow -- the boys had fun playing in it for awhile..

an old cabin

Playa del Carmen - Mexico

So we decided to surprise the boys with a trip to Mexico. We had to avoid a lot of questions when it came to going through the whole passport process with them. Dylan was starting to suspect something the day that we left. Tuesday night we told them that they could stay up late and play the wii. At 10 pm, I went downstairs and told them to change out of the pjs and don’t ask any questions. Of course, they asked lots of questions…we told them we were going on a drive. They soon realized that we were headed to the airport. Then the guessing game began. Are we going to DisneyLand, DisneyWorld, Mexico….Tyler even asked if we were going to Africa or Australia. We had a lay over in Atlanta and they were convinced that we were going to Florida since we were so close. Even when we were on the plane and they announced where we were going…they said, “We’re going to New Mexico!” We laughed.

The view from our room.

The 3 Amigos with their slushies.

Jen & Tyler at the beach at night.

Dallas with one of the crabs he caught.

Dylan with one of the crabs he caught.

On the pier in Playa -- eating our yummy pineapple and mango

Playing at the beach


We went to Xel-Ha on Friday. We snorkeled, chased iguanas around, looked for shells, and Dallas and Tyler swam with the dolphins. Dylan said that he didn’t want to, but then regretted not doing it. I think once he saw that it wasn’t scary for Dallas and Tyler, he realized that he wanted to do it.

Posing with the parrots

Do you see the big iguana?

The dolphins jumping over all of them.

The dolphins dancing.

The dolphins swimming around everyone.

The dolphin kissing Dallas

Tyler dancing with the dolphin....so cute!!

Dallas with the parrots

Dylan at Xel-Ha holding a parrot and toucan...He is a little nervous.

They also held a big lizard...scary!!


Dylan and Dallas loved the beach. Tyler would rather have been in the pool the whole time. He didn’t care for the salt water.

Tyler playing at the beach

Shane and Dallas -- They seem to look alike today.

I think we all ate at least 5 gallons of ice cream while we were there. Every time we ate a meal, we had to get an ice cream cone for dessert. The resort that we stayed out was great. It was huge and they had golf carts to drive you from one end to the other. We just so happened to be on the opposite side of where the beach was. But we had a couple of pools right outside our room.

Family Lake Powell Trip

We went to Lake Powell last week with the boys, Jace, and Mindy (Shane's brother and Mom). We had a really cool camping spot. We always go to the Escalante and camp in one of the caves with big overhangs so we have shade all day long. This year we had a great view of an arch.

There was a lot of fishing....

some cliff jumping....

A little tubing, snorkeling, and not a lot of wakeboarding (The water was pretty choppy) But Dallas was so excited to wakeboard this year. He is loving it and it getting really good.