our neck of the Woods: Perfect gong-show trip

I don't know why this is... But us Irion's often have bad luck with Lake Powell and boating in general. Honestly- we have a joke that whenever we are going to the lake, we yell out the car window to Mother Nature/God/anyone really, "we're goin to Ikea!!" to try and fool them. True story.

We happened to have the house boat the week after mom and dad came home from their mission. We just couldn't miss that opportunity to go to the best place on earth, so decided to go for it. We were just SO excited- and only slightly nervous because there would be so many of us, and we wanted mom and dad to be able to get some R&R post mish- which is near impossible at Powell- especially because of our luck with boats and such. But "dad's angry place" it is!

We divided up who would be in charge of dinners each night, what treats to bring, BYOB(breakfast- hah) went to Costco and had about 4 or 5 carts full of happiness, got the beach toys and blow-up water toys ready, cleaned and prepared the boat, etc.

We. Were. Ready!

I was in the "cool-kids-club-car" with Rob, Angie, Russ, Ellen and Ashlyn. We had a blast rocking out to music and playing that heads up game where we guessed the tune. So freakin funny.

Instead of trying to remember the play-by-play of the week...I'll just list the problems we had.

Owen's car overheating right before getting to the lake

Ski boat put-putting at 10 mph max first night in

Fresh water pump stopped working for a bit- thank goodness we've got engineers with us ;)

Shattered glass table top

Ski boat totally not working until the last night

Big storm that beached/parallel parked the houseboat

yikes-a-bee

Needless to say- we just played games and swam the entire time. At one point Emily said "this is the perfect vacation!" we all laughed cause we were stranded with no ski-boat...but couldn't agree more.

I will say though- it was so fun when we had the boat up and running.

Realizing what we were missin that's for sure.

I guess i'll just dump photos here now. mmmmmm Powell...I love you

The bobsked- So cute. always.

Lily- just havin the time of her life on the beach by herself. hah!

This floatie got loose and drifted away- Cute Bree swam over there and swam it back and wouldn't let anyone help her. Took foreves.

Isnt this guy adorable?! I was just as excited as the kiddos.

Heaven on earth

Floating and jumping off the back is the BEST! We were all taking turns trying to land in this little floaty. Nailed it.

Lily just joined in on the work-out sesh without a word. Cutest thing in the world

My best friend is my sister in law..beat that

You can kinda see Russ and Ellen swimming the boat into the docks to get it fixed. Hilarious.

THIS GIRL! Ashlyn got up on the wakeboard for the first time this trip... I will NEVER forget that cutest smile when she got up! The whole boat was up on their feet cheering, laughing...and katie and I were crying. haha Adorable. Love that girl so so much.