Last few dam jams

Clint, he's awesome!

Nate, awesome as well!

Derek, awesome!

One of several skis.

The beautiful water.

The driver, Jed.

Me skiing. I'm not video worthy yet...

And last the best of all the game! Rachel skiing. Look at that spray!

Lake Mead - family tradition for 15 years

This past weekend we went to Lake Mead. My family has been going there for UEA weekend 15 out of the last 16 years. Yes, we've only missed one year. Very impressive! We had perfect weather the entire trip and pure glass in the afternoons. Only one major accident to report: While Brooke was surfing behind the Tige, they came across an extremely random and shallow spot of land, which immediately brought the Tige to a halt sending my niece Sydney flying over the front. Brooke, who was still surfing, had no idea what just happened, but noticed she was getting to the boat extremely quick so she swerved to make the surf board miss the boat, instead making herself hit. Brian, who was driving the boat, pulled Sydney out of the water just in time for Brooke to see it. Such a random, unexpected, and unavoidable accident, luckily everyone was safe!

At the bottom of this ramp is where we launched our boats last year... The water was so low we had to take the dirt road around to the new ramp, a good mile away. Yet another reason we hit land.

Brady, what a stud! He and his buddies are starting their own label, RAYNE (notice the hat).

What's the weather forecast today? Cloudy with a chance of RAYNE!

Tige with Brooke getting ready to wakeboard.

The Blackhurst family and their Mobius.

Ulrich's Calabria. We almost sank this boat last year in a wicked storm...

Syd and Morgan ready to get boating!

Baby Sienna hangin at the hotel.

Another plug for RAYNE

Uncle Mike skiing like a champ!

Ashley

Mama Karin

Me skiing

Jennifer skiing for the first time!

My mom is cooler than yours, she still water skis!

Last few moments on Lake Mead... Sad day.

We did a lot more stuff, but that is it for the pictures I took... Hope you enjoyed!

While the husband's away...

Kip went to Missouri to learn more about Tracker boats. While he was gone I kept plenty busy by...

Shopping

Decorated for Halloween

Ate at the places I love but Kip hates

Watched movies and did loads and loads of laundry

And went on walks with this little lady!

I really HATE when Kip has to leave for work. Luckily it's not too often... 

But I did enjoy my alone time...

... still catching up

I am the 2nd councelor in the Young Womens, so I got to go to Girls Camp! And guess who got to tag along... Kip!

The first day we packed everything up and headed to the Twin Falls, Idaho temple to do baptisms for the dead. On our way we blew a tire on the small trailer we were towing, so that set us back an hour or so. But we made it and almost everyone did baptisms. I stayed out with a few girls and another leader and we got new tires on the trailer and went to the mall. I'm only telling you all this because I don't have any pictures...

Thsi is everyone at the temple. We carried on to camp & set everything up.

Check out their cool Arctic Circle?!

AND Idaho's sweetest car wash?!

Day 2 we went to Shoshone Falls. Beautiful. We took a hike around Dierkes Lake and then swam & cliff jumped. The lake was VERY cold. But it was really fun!

Everyone on the hike.

Cliff jumping. The water was so clear you could see everything below you.

Kind of scary but it was really deep. Almost everyone jumped!

More view of the lake. It was pure glass but they don't let any motor boats on it. Just paddle boats.

Day 3 we stayed at camp and worked on crafts and certification.

Day 4 we went rafting on the Snake River.

 It was mostly calm with a few rapids. 

The picture above is the first group almost finished with their first rafting ride.

Kip's raft.

Amy's raft with a few of our young women.

I didn't get any pictures of our raft battles, but that was a memorable experience! Amy's husband Justin would jump rafts, push or pick up girls and throw them in the river. We had some awesome battles!

All packed up ready to go home. We were all exhausted by this time! Kip and I really had fun at camp. We hope all the girls did as well!

Oh, and this is Linda's van on the drive home. Awesome.

A few days after Girls Camp we left for Lake Powell yet again... This was my 3rd trip and Kip's 2nd. We went with the company Living Scriptures. They rented a boat and driver from Fred's Marine for the week. Kip was the lucky one chosen and I tagged along! We had a really fun time and enjoyed meeting everyone!

This is for you diehard boaters! This is what we woke up to... How can you not ski that glass?

Good morning! Skiing is probably the best way to start a morning in Lake Powell! Yes, that's me.

Drivers for the week, Kip and I.

I LOVE this picture! Steven is the boarder in the water.

Janice. This is her first time wakeboarding and she got up! She was one of the few girls on this trip...

Janice Steven and Parker roasting giant marshmallows on the stove. It worked!

Nightly movies with the projector. Good times!

We usually had 2 movies going becaues not everyone wanted to watch the same stuff... Nice Casey.

This is my 2nd cousin Mike Ulrich.

HOTT STUFF!

We took a drive on Sunday and look what we found!!!

Skiing down the slide. No injuries but one was EXTREMELY close.

Poor Shane and his Bayliner (aka Babeliner). He left to call his family and when he came back he was attacked by his employees with water balloons!

Thanks for a great week in Lake Powell Living Scriptures!

FINALLY the last event of summer 2010, my triathlon! Between all of those trips I had to make time for running and biking, I got plenty of swimming in! Not much bike training, but I was confident I could hack a 12 mile bike ride, I was mostly worried about the swim! I competed in the Bear Lake Brawl. Friday night, the night before, the weather was awful! A storm came and took 2 of the 3 swim buoys to Idaho, so our start times were pushed back so they could get everything set again. Luckily Saturday morning was beautiful and we were able to do all 3 events. 

 

 

Putting our wetsuits on. Gotta show of the markings!

All wetsuited up and ready for my swim!

Hot, I know! But it's purple, my favorite color!

There were over 700 participants, not including spectators, and I set up my station right by Jess Kilgore and Sally Cantwell! What are the odds?!

I was too nervous/excited to act normal... This is my sister-in-law Brooke. She had a baby 4 months ago... Way to go Brooke!

Swim: check

Bike: finished

Run:completed in better time than I thought...

First triathlon: DONE!

I loved it! It's much more challenging that just running, Even though I hate swimming, I'd love to get better at it. Triathlons are my new love... Thanks Brooke for doing it as well!