River Trip

We went to the Colorado River in Blythe with some friends for a few days. It was a great way to start the summer! It was 108 degrees but none of us seemed to care. It felt great in the water. We would get up and play in the water for a few hours and swim around.

Abby was so good. We kept her cool and gave her lots of Gatorade bottles.

The kids didn't even fight once. Now that is amazing.

Hailey and Karis relaxing on the beach eating grapes and giggling. The two of them had fun doing dance routines in the water.Back at camp the kids would play with water balloons or play ball. Madison and Aiden had a serious match going on. When it was too hot the kids would watch TV in the air conditioned motor home. Our air conditioning went out the first night so the Dale and Leanne let us hang out in theirs during they day and we slept with a fan on at night. It wasn't so bad we could have been in a tent. At night we would hang out and play games late into the night.

Late afternoons we would go back down to the river. The water was perfect then for wakeboarding and there were hardly any boats on the river. Leanne was the official lifeguard on the waverunner. I was really glad she was there when I attempted to wakebaord after many years of not doing it. I of course did not get up this time. Thanks Leanne, especially for not taking any photos of that.

Here is Aiden getting pulled on the knee board.

Todd took each of the kids for rides on the waverunner. The loved the speed!

Todd was pretty happy to be wakeboarding again and even cleared the wake a few times. He is not as rusty as thought. Madison was very into watching him from the boat. When he would let go and we would bring the rope around she would tell him "your not supposed to let go Daddy". When I gave it a try all I got was "you kinda suck Mommy". Look what I have to compete with though :)

Our friends' son Matthew did awesome on the wakeboard also. He just had open heart surgery a few months ago and look at him go. Way to go Matthew you are my hero!

We got a giant island raft for the trip. There are six seats to sit on and the center is mesh so a little bit of water comes in so Abby had a little pool of water to splash in. The other kids loved jumping in and off of it.
Everybody loved it when Dale and Todd would spin the raft.

Matthew and Blake had a great time being knocked over by a water football that they Dads would throw and try and peg them.

We had a great time with our friends. The kids were amazing and all got along great. This is going to be a fun summer!