I always miss Lake Powell when we leave. I absolutely love that place!

Here are my boys being my boys!

Cordell and Julian even got to fish for the first time, this year at Powell.

Courtney

We tried wake surfing for the first time and some of us were successful. Cordell got up his first time, yeah Cordell!!

The Bridge -

We vistited Rainbow Bridge again because Courtney had never been there before.

Aaron

Cordell

We did some cliff jumping...

Julian

We went down to Lake Powell with our "other" daughter Courtney and her boyfriend Aaron.

Our kids played in the Mud for hours and had a blast!

Our friends Brian and Brook were down at Powell the same time we were and we actually found them hanging out on a beach if you can believe it.

Finally, my home away from home - Lake Powell. My favorite place to be!

Last but not least I thought I would share how spoiled Julian was at the Airport on our way home. Cute but spoiled!

I think that this California trip was the best one so far. We had so much fun as a family and all got along.

As always, wherever we go we bring the cold weather. This is at the end of the day on the beach trying to keep warm.

The Family on the beach -

Julian

Emery

Cordell

Callen

All of our kids wanted to Body Surf while we were there so here they are riding the waves!

Our kids found tons of sand crabs and they are gross little things. Here is one of them and they are under the sand on the beach's EWE YUCK! No wonder I am a Lake person rather than an Ocean person.

Here is Boyce in his homemade beach chair relaxing and watching the kids do their thing

While we were down there we of course had to go to the beach. We ended up going to Huntington Beach and it was a very nice beach. The kids were so excited to go there I think that was the highlight of their trip. We took a bike ride along the beach in a bikecar?? We all were able to pedal so nobody (but Julian) got to just sit there. It was fun and man did we get our exercise!

We got to ride the new Toy Story ride at Disneyland and it was pretty cool. Here are the kids in line for it with their 3D glasses on.

I am a huge Pirates of the Caribbean fan and love Jack Sparrow (because of Johnny Depp of course) but here is my own little Jack Sparrow and I would take him over Johnny Depp any day.

The kids really liked the Mummy ride and the Simpson's ride but here is a picture of them on the Jurassic Park ride. They rode this quite a bit.

We went to a haunted house walk through and shouldn't have. Our kids were so scared and Boyce couldn't stop laughing at the whole situation. Boyce said the it was probably the scariest he has been to since he was boy but what I want to know is why did the workers let us take our 4 year old in there! We did most of the shows and Emery even got to help out at the Animal show and did great!

Next stop on our trip was Universal Studios. It was so nice because it was overcast and there was no lines! We had a lot of fun. The terminator ride/show was cool, the kids really liked it. Here they are with their dad fighting the big bad robots!

Julian dug the little Lego cars because they gave him his own license and he was pumped!

It was cool to see all the stuff they have built with Lego's. My favorite there was a walkway full of all the cities they replicated using Lego's.

Next thing we did was headed to Lego Land. I had never been there so I was excited to see it.

I had never been to the San Diego Zoo so we hit that next. It was neat to see. We saw a baby Koala Bear and was able to feed the Giraffes which was so cool.

Next we head to California. In June the family took the trip to California to do the Disneyland thing. We decided to visit San Diego also while we were down there. We hit San Diego first and ate on the pier. We actually ate at the restaurant that Boyce and his family ate at when he was 11 which was the last vacation he had with his father. I was very happy that the kids and I were able to go there with Boyce.

School's out for summer and Cordell had another school swim party.