You, Me, and Us: Day One Part 2-Utah Lake

Alright-so it had been raining off and on throughout the day, so I really didn't think we would go boating until my brother Jon called me up at 5pm and said, "We goin boating?" I said "Sure"-not really thinking he was serious. He said to meet at his house. We hung up and I had to call back to really make sure he was serious-and he was. Mind you-it was still raining. Anyhow, we got to Jon and Kim's house in Draper then stopped at Jeremy's to get the big tube. Got on the freeway at Bangerter and the freeway is stopped at the point of the mountain ALL the way past AF Center Street. Lovely! So what normally would take about 15 minutes-took quite a bit longer. Still raining at this point. By the time we get to the lake it's about 7pm and there were clouds all around. Jon kept saying-it's going to pass-just wait-blue skies are ahead. We were all thinking "yeah right Jon". Well, we pull up to the dock and it's still not blue skies and it's raining. We wait for a few minutes for the rain to "pass through". Before it stopped raining, Steve & Jon got out and got the boat all ready. Jon was determined that we were going and the rain would pass. Sure enough, right as we were getting the boat in the lake, it stopped raining and a double rainbow appeared. The kids were so excited to see a full double rainbow. We had so much fun on the tube and the kids loved playing in the water. Steve and I got a chance to drive the boat too. That's alot of fun. I was a little nervous though-but still had fun. The water was actually really warm. I was suprised. Anyhow, thank you Jon and Kim and Family for sharing your boat with us. It was so much fun!! I have just attached a bunch of pictures from the outing. Kinda in random order.

Halle and Natalee out swimming by the boat.

The kids goofing off as we were being eaten by mosquitos as we wiped down the boat.

All done for the night.

The Sunset

Steve driving the boat

No hands-Tommy, Halle and Natalee

Jon and Ben

Sam, Ben, Kim and Tommy

Halle and Steve

Halle-she just lost her front tooth a few days prior

Sam, Steve and Tommy-NO HANDS.

Ben and Jon driving the boat.

Halle, Katie, Natalee-Halle was TETRIFIED to go boating. She seriously thought that she was going to die at the lake because of a news story she had seen. She screamed and cried and didn't want to go AT ALL. I was such a mean mom and made her come to the lake with us anyway-knowing that she would have a good time. And.....She loved it!

Katie, Lizzie, Steve-We were the first ones out. Lizzie had no fear. She was ready. Well, we got going and we were out on the tube for a bit and Lizzie was ready to get back in the boat. She didn't like going so fast, well, when Jon started to slow down, the tube started to go underwater forward. I grabbed onto Lizzie's hand to pull her out from under the tube. She was being pulled under the tube and I was trying to pull her out. I just let go of her and Jon went to turn the boat around. Lizzie popped up and Steve and I went right to Lizzie. She was a little shaken and scared, and I actually was a little too. I'm pretty scared of lake's myself, but I was trying not to show it. Anyhow, Lizzie was completely done after that. No more water for her. She did say she had fun though.