We spent last week at Lake Powell with my family. Hayden had a couple of jobs that ended up needing attention, so he was unable to go. I had no phone service for 90% of the time, so I couldn’t let Hayden know how things were going. … We had two houseboats , and they were quite full: 16 kids and 11 adults. The only siblings not there were Garrett, who is working in Jackson Hole for the summer, and Jolona, who stayed home with her baby. It was a lot of fun. …

Lake Powell July 2010. Lake Powell is awesome!! On July 8th at 3am we headed for our favorite vacation. We had to leave so early because the alternator went out on the ski boat and the only one we could find was here in Phoenix. … By 2pm when Dean arrived the boat was working and we just had to wait for the houseboat to motor over from Bullfrog. As we finished loading the boat I thought to myself “it would be great if Sonja came right now” and over the hill she drove. …