Cassidy's Second Home

Every year Cassidy's family takes a trip to Lake Powell for fun in the sun on the boat. Cass has often stated that Lake Powell is his second home because he loves going there every year. This year was no different we had an amazing four days because the weather cooperated and it was later in the season so there were a lot less people which meant calmer water and more skiing in the middle of the day. Here are some pictures from out adventure.

Cassidy's brother Dane and the one fish he caught. All those stinky anchovies in the cooler for three days and he only got one cat fish.

Treygann decided he would take grandpa for a ride in the little bay by our camp. I think grandpa did most of the rowing, but it was nice to have our own private area for swimming.

Treygann is five and was very nervous about jumping in the deep water when we first got there, but by the end of the trip he was jumping off the front and back of the boat all by himself. this picture shows exactly how he jumps, a belly flop every time, good thing he has the life vest to help break his fall.

On Saturday we drove past the "crack." When the lake is high you can swim through this crack in the cliff wall. When it is low you have to hike up the rocks then walk through it and jump off the other end. It was a fun climb until we were on our way down and Cass said of no I forgot about this part. It was this huge rock that you had to go over on your belly and then kind of drop to some other rocks that you couldn't see. I am short so Dane was holding my hand over the rock helping to lower me and Cass was directing my feet. Unfortunately I still had to drop some by myself and ended up with a huge scrape down my shin as I fell to straddle the rocks below me. The jump at the end was fun though.

There were two different Indian Ruins sights that we went to. Here we are in front of one of the homes. We are thinking of moving in because we loved Lake Powell so much :)

You might be able to tell, but we are both on the knee board. Cass is awesome and was able to stand up and then get back down without falling off.




You can't see it in the picture, but Cassidy is on the wake skate right here. The wake skate is like a skateboard with no wheels. It is really fun, but hard to get up on because you have to hold the board next to your feet with one hand and the rope with the other when you first get going. Don't worry Randi got up on it too.

In the giant beautiful canyon on the way to some other Indian Ruins.

This was our home for a few days. We stayed in a tent while Cassidy's parents stayed on the boat. The other picture is Cass making breakfast at the camp kitchen. During the day we put the canopy up for shade, but in the morning the sun felt good after our morning ski.

And finally Cassidy's birthday. We went down on Cassidy's birthday so here are actual pictures from his birthday. There is only half a pie because we ate the other half form breakfast before we headed to the lake. And just in case you were wondering from the previous post the pie was delicious. I am pretty proud of it considering how much stress went in to the stupid thing. The Peterson's are pie people so there was a lot of pressure :) Happy Birthday again to a fabulous husband!