Lake Powell Blitz

 It is important to note that "Blitz" in the title refers to the trip itself, not the post! This post is one of the longest yet!  But our trip was SUPER short.  We drove down late Friday night after Whitney's soccer practice.  Then had 1.5 days on the water, and then booked it home as the kids had school Monday morning. Quick but WORTH IT! lake Powell is awesome. So get ready for one million pictures.

Here's the cute 11-year old cousins riding on the tube together.  Owen and Cleo.

Whitney and Maris on a bumpy ride

Chillin on the boat!  Owen, Cleo and Whitney

Emma and Grandma!

The kids exploring, and playing on the boat ramp while we unloaded the boat on the dock.

maris, vivian and cleo, and Eric trying the surfing feature.

Owen, Naomi, and Maris. And my view from the front of the boat at one point- Katelyn, Whitney and Eric

Whitney peace-sign photobombing me and Eric's boat selfie, and Lauren Kurtis Eric and Emma.

Owen, Maris, Katelyn.....and Grandma!

And the cliff-jumping pics!  There will be a lot of these haha.  Here's a bunch of us taking turns going off a cliff, and then Ryan's like "lets go higher!" So you can see in the next picture, Eric is jumping off the lower one while some kids get ready to go off the higher one.  Whitney, Owen, Maris, Cleo and Vivian did it.  My 3 probably did it 5 times or more, they just kept climbing back up to go again!

Sunrise over Lake Powell!  This time we got the hotel breakfast, and it was AMAZING. Sitting and eating with a gorgeous view of the Lake= luxury!   and here's me and poor Emma, who still doesn't love the boat.

Owen, Naomi and Maris, and Cleo and Whit

Owen and Katelyn

Lauren, Vivian, Maris and Cleo being cheerleaders

Ice Cream Stop!

We stopped in this little cove for a while, it was fun and private.

Me and the kids climbed up to the top of the rocks.

Later we got this cute family boat picture....

Right before a thunderstorm hit! We sped back to the dock getting rained on the whole way!  it looks sunny, but it was raining!

Emma and Maris helping Grandpa drive the boat

Cousin love!

Boat love!

Playing games while we waited for and ate pizza delivered to us at the Marina!  Very cool.  And look at Maris' red face!

After our sun break, I bought everyone tootsie pops from the little shop- apparently liking those is a Murray thing! They were a hit.

One more pic from the ice cream break.

Grandma went on the tube!!
With Maris and Vivian!  Not for very long though lol.

I just had to take a selfie with these gorgeous white and orange cliffs. 

Whitney, Cleo and Maris- brave souls getting some air!

Whit, Owen and Cleo up on the biggest cliff before jumping.

Mary took these funny shots of us when we were in that cove.  She, Brad and Ryan stayed on the boat.

Mary was happy at dinner one night that Katelyn was wearing a Harjuku shirt. 

Mary took a bunch of videos of the kids cliff jumping, and I got these still shots from those.  This first one in incredible- just a little girl falling through the air in front of the huge cliffs.

This one of Owen!!  leaping out into the unknown!! He LOVED the thrill of it.  And Whitney halfway down.

A great mid-air shot of Whitney.

And Maris jumping from 2 different spots.

Lake Powell was awesome.  I hope we go there many more times.  This time was great because we worked so hard to make it happen and it was worth it.