I finally got the post of Lake Powell 2009 up and going!!! Now that we have been back a little over a month! But hey I got it done! This post is LOADED with pictures! Not because I am behind in blogging, we just took an INSANE amount of pictures! They're all so much fun and some just priceless! And it's only ONE post! That is right, ONE and it's ALL LAKE POWELL! What can I say?! I love taking pictures and capturing every moment possible! I say to myself maybe I should cut back on taking so many! It is to hard though! there are to many precious, fun, exciting moments to not have forever! And thank goodness for digital cameras you can always delete right?! Anywho! This trip was AMAZING! Keith's family goes every year! This was year 20 I believe! It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL there! We were at the most beautiful spot also! We stay on a house boat which you can't beat that! It's just amazing I tell ya! Not to mention our little buddy boy Vander was AMAZING! He was a perfect baby the whole time! It was go, go, go for Rachel and Allen and their FIVE kids!!! Truly had her hands full with the twins but she managed! Everyone helped here and there:) SO....enjoy our beautiful vacation of all our adventures from swimming, wave running, boating, wakeboarding, dress up night, Vander's first swim in the lake! Don't miss that! It's towards the end and it is freaken ADORABLE! Need I say more! Just enjoy:)
So let me explain these first few photos. We were trying to get a good family pic of us three! We could not get Vander to smile for anything! I was laughing SOOOO hard posting this! Because of all the different faces he was pulling! I just had to post them all so you could see!
He is saying here, "Are you gonna take the picture or what?!)
Ok! Now I am getting upset!
Are you freaken kidding me?!!! Take it already he says!
Ok....I will give you a little smirk I guess!
So then Keith and I wanted one of us, and we kept getting squirted with a dang water gun that was really powerful with extremely cold water! What the?!!!
SO COLD!!!
Daddy and the mini Van! Our two boat captains! This was the morning we were heading out on the house boat to get our spot for the week!
I know you can't get the whole image of where we anchored, but it was BEAUTIFUL! I would not have a problem going back there again! Vander looks so amused in the photo!
On top of the house boat!
This was actually from last years Lake Powell trip! I wanted to post it being I didn't have a blog at this time last year! We are standing infront of Rainbow Bridge which is just incredible! I absolutely LOVE this photo! The next photo was also from last year! These photos are very special, that is because Vander was brought about from this trip!:) He he! So Lake Powell will ALWAYS be special for us!!!
Our house boat!
I had to post this because Truly's little girl Ashton is INCREDIBLEY flexible! I swear I have never seen another baby like this! It is so funny and so bizzare at the same time! I told Truly she needs to get her in dance classes when she is older! She would be great:)
Super Star!!!!
Our little buddy boy! So cute!
Lunch time!!! Look at those little feet!
Our friend Jon and his wife Julie came and brought their boat! It was so fun having them there!
My baby driving the boat!
Love that my honey just popped his head in the background while I'm trying to get a photo of buddy and I!
So let me explain these first few photos. We were trying to get a good family pic of us three! We could not get Vander to smile for anything! I was laughing SOOOO hard posting this! Because of all the different faces he was pulling! I just had to post them all so you could see!
He is saying here, "Are you gonna take the picture or what?!)
Ok! Now I am getting upset!
Are you freaken kidding me?!!! Take it already he says!
Ok....I will give you a little smirk I guess!
So then Keith and I wanted one of us, and we kept getting squirted with a dang water gun that was really powerful with extremely cold water! What the?!!!
SO COLD!!!
Daddy and the mini Van! Our two boat captains! This was the morning we were heading out on the house boat to get our spot for the week!
I know you can't get the whole image of where we anchored, but it was BEAUTIFUL! I would not have a problem going back there again! Vander looks so amused in the photo!
On top of the house boat!
This was actually from last years Lake Powell trip! I wanted to post it being I didn't have a blog at this time last year! We are standing infront of Rainbow Bridge which is just incredible! I absolutely LOVE this photo! The next photo was also from last year! These photos are very special, that is because Vander was brought about from this trip!:) He he! So Lake Powell will ALWAYS be special for us!!!
Our house boat!
I had to post this because Truly's little girl Ashton is INCREDIBLEY flexible! I swear I have never seen another baby like this! It is so funny and so bizzare at the same time! I told Truly she needs to get her in dance classes when she is older! She would be great:)
Super Star!!!!
Our little buddy boy! So cute!
Lunch time!!! Look at those little feet!
Our friend Jon and his wife Julie came and brought their boat! It was so fun having them there!
My baby driving the boat!
Love that my honey just popped his head in the background while I'm trying to get a photo of buddy and I! Funny Honey!
We played games ALL THE TIME! mostly this card game that we liked!
Waking up from a nap!
So Truly and I were trying to get a picture together and the guys brought out that stupid water gun again with freezing cold water and was shooting us in the lake! I tell ya! It was funny though:)
We managed to get a good one!
Love his face! I could just kiss it off!
Truly brought this ball for her girls and Vander liked it so much! Truly went out and got him a blue one like it! Thanks aunt Truly! Right here he is thinking about it!
Testing it.......
Loves it!
Our baby has such BIG lips! I love it!
When he would go down for naps he slept soooo good!
Bath time in the sink!!!!
Cousin Taylor made him this hat with his name on it!
So Rachel Keith's sister painted Keith's toes while he was asleep! She did it to their dad also which I didn't get a picture of dang it! But it was funny!
My baby doing his thing! He is so good!
WHEEEEEE!
Vander and mommy! We have alot of pics like this! I was just always holding him!
Coke and mentos volcano! The kids built the sand volcano and Keith set it up and the kids LOVED it!
I put Vander in the twins little chair that hangs off the table and he just loved it! It was so cute just seeing his little feet dangle!
Stink bug!!!
I just love this!
Julie put Vander to sleep!
So this was dress up night! Vander and I were Pirates sort of, well he was I just put a bandana on my head and called it good! Everyone dressed up and put make up on it was a good old time!
I just loved seeing this little bandana on his little head!
Yes this would be Craig and Nancy! AKA my mother and father inlaw! I just love these two!
Whachya see out there Craig? LOL Love this!
Happy little buddy!
He loves to put his hands over his face at times when he is sleeping! it is so funny!
Some of the rocks there were just so cool and neat!
These rocks were actually green! I just thought they were so cool!
So the kids found an old bottle while they were playing and they opened it and found a treasure map in it! So we all went searching for Pirate treasure! Oh boy!!!
Keith with the map!
Ooooo Pirates!!!
Think we found something! Start digging honey!
Found a chest!
Break it open!
Oh my goodness!!!
It's Pirate treasure!!!
Look at what they all got out of the Pirate chest!
LOOK! Even our little buddy got some Pirate treasure! He is a real Pirate now!
ARRRRRR!!!!
Just hanging with mommy!
Me and Julie and her cute pregnant belly!
Keith and I had so much fun doing this! we rowed out far! Talk about a major arm workout! It was so neat though!
My mother in law Nancy brought shells and frames for us all to make! I am using a glue gun to glue them on the frame! I loved using a glue gun when I was little! I loved it! Buddy is just hanging out with me!
So let me explain this. The guys thought it would be so much fun to all load up on a ciac and see if they could all fit! Well you can take it from here! It was pretty funny!
Almost!
Getting there!
Made it!
UH OH!!!
Ashton and Lindsey and Nancy pants!
I just loved going and sitting in the sand with Vander. It was just so peaceful and he was always just so good and would just stare out with me! It was just so beautiful!
We all colored and decorated a hat and had a fun family photo taken!
A bunch of us rode to these caves that were INCREDIBLE! That doesn't even explain it! They were just amazing! I swear the pictures do not do them the justice as what it was in person!
On the ride back!
So this was probably one of the most memorable precious times on the trip for us! Before we left for Powell my dad got Vander a baby life jacket! We wanted to make sure we took him for a dip in the lake before we left! We weren't sure if he would like it, but he loves his baths and so I figured he would love this! So here he is just getting ready!
Getting my life jacket on!
Oh Boy!
Daddy taking me out to the lake!
And I was right!!! He absolutely totally LOVED it! When we first put him in he wasn't sure, but then he got a smile on his face and we just lost it of how flippin cute it was!
He just floated as we pulled him around! Have you ever seen anything cuter?!!
He loved sucking on his jacket!
So much fun!!!
I love his little face in this photo! He is like, hi mommy and daddy! I love you!
Well we needed to take him out cause the water was feeling a little bit cool, and not to mention we didn't want his little toes and fingers to become more raisins than what they were! He honestly would have stayed in longer! This was such a priceless memory for us!
This was the last day we were there and I loved this spot on the rock so we got a quick picture infront of it! Lake Powell was gorgeous as ever! I am so happy it is such a big tradition in Keith's family!
These next few photos are not Lake Powell but I just had to add them in! This is Vander with Papa Crocker! He is just so happy and Papa's little Crocker namesake! I am so happy we had a little boy! Keith was the only boy and I know how much it meant to Keith's dad to have another little Crocker boy:)
Craig on his Gorgeous bike! He just arrived in town from a long trip from Arizona! What a cool dude!
I love you Papa! 
Love Vander
We played games ALL THE TIME! mostly this card game that we liked!
Waking up from a nap!
So Truly and I were trying to get a picture together and the guys brought out that stupid water gun again with freezing cold water and was shooting us in the lake! I tell ya! It was funny though:)
We managed to get a good one!
Love his face! I could just kiss it off!
Truly brought this ball for her girls and Vander liked it so much! Truly went out and got him a blue one like it! Thanks aunt Truly! Right here he is thinking about it!
Testing it.......
Loves it!
Our baby has such BIG lips! I love it!
When he would go down for naps he slept soooo good!
Bath time in the sink!!!!
Cousin Taylor made him this hat with his name on it!
So Rachel Keith's sister painted Keith's toes while he was asleep! She did it to their dad also which I didn't get a picture of dang it! But it was funny!
My baby doing his thing! He is so good!
WHEEEEEE!
Vander and mommy! We have alot of pics like this! I was just always holding him!
Coke and mentos volcano! The kids built the sand volcano and Keith set it up and the kids LOVED it!
I put Vander in the twins little chair that hangs off the table and he just loved it! It was so cute just seeing his little feet dangle!
Stink bug!!!
I just love this!
Julie put Vander to sleep!
So this was dress up night! Vander and I were Pirates sort of, well he was I just put a bandana on my head and called it good! Everyone dressed up and put make up on it was a good old time!
I just loved seeing this little bandana on his little head!
Yes this would be Craig and Nancy! AKA my mother and father inlaw! I just love these two!
Whachya see out there Craig? LOL Love this!
Happy little buddy!
He loves to put his hands over his face at times when he is sleeping! it is so funny!
Some of the rocks there were just so cool and neat!
These rocks were actually green! I just thought they were so cool!
So the kids found an old bottle while they were playing and they opened it and found a treasure map in it! So we all went searching for Pirate treasure! Oh boy!!!
Keith with the map!
Ooooo Pirates!!!
Think we found something! Start digging honey!
Found a chest!
Break it open!
Oh my goodness!!!
It's Pirate treasure!!!
Look at what they all got out of the Pirate chest!
LOOK! Even our little buddy got some Pirate treasure! He is a real Pirate now!
ARRRRRR!!!!
Just hanging with mommy!
Me and Julie and her cute pregnant belly!
Keith and I had so much fun doing this! we rowed out far! Talk about a major arm workout! It was so neat though!
My mother in law Nancy brought shells and frames for us all to make! I am using a glue gun to glue them on the frame! I loved using a glue gun when I was little! I loved it! Buddy is just hanging out with me!
So let me explain this. The guys thought it would be so much fun to all load up on a ciac and see if they could all fit! Well you can take it from here! It was pretty funny!
Almost!
Getting there!
Made it!
UH OH!!!
Ashton and Lindsey and Nancy pants!
I just loved going and sitting in the sand with Vander. It was just so peaceful and he was always just so good and would just stare out with me! It was just so beautiful!
We all colored and decorated a hat and had a fun family photo taken!
A bunch of us rode to these caves that were INCREDIBLE! That doesn't even explain it! They were just amazing! I swear the pictures do not do them the justice as what it was in person!
On the ride back!
So this was probably one of the most memorable precious times on the trip for us! Before we left for Powell my dad got Vander a baby life jacket! We wanted to make sure we took him for a dip in the lake before we left! We weren't sure if he would like it, but he loves his baths and so I figured he would love this! So here he is just getting ready!
Getting my life jacket on!
Oh Boy!
Daddy taking me out to the lake!
And I was right!!! He absolutely totally LOVED it! When we first put him in he wasn't sure, but then he got a smile on his face and we just lost it of how flippin cute it was!
He just floated as we pulled him around! Have you ever seen anything cuter?!!
He loved sucking on his jacket!
So much fun!!!
I love his little face in this photo! He is like, hi mommy and daddy! I love you!
Well we needed to take him out cause the water was feeling a little bit cool, and not to mention we didn't want his little toes and fingers to become more raisins than what they were! He honestly would have stayed in longer! This was such a priceless memory for us!
This was the last day we were there and I loved this spot on the rock so we got a quick picture infront of it! Lake Powell was gorgeous as ever! I am so happy it is such a big tradition in Keith's family!
These next few photos are not Lake Powell but I just had to add them in! This is Vander with Papa Crocker! He is just so happy and Papa's little Crocker namesake! I am so happy we had a little boy! Keith was the only boy and I know how much it meant to Keith's dad to have another little Crocker boy:)
Craig on his Gorgeous bike! He just arrived in town from a long trip from Arizona! What a cool dude!
I love you Papa! 
Love Vander
8 comments:
THose were soooo fun to look at! What an amazing house boat! And Vander dressed up like a pirate is the cutest thing ever!
yeah like i said before i want to look like you! even with no make-up and your hair in a bun your the most beautiful person i have ever seen!!!! :) man i hope in heaven i can look like you! haha
Oh!!! Those are SUCH fun pictures! I Love little Vander as a pirate with his loot, that is the Cutest thing Ever!! And I love the expression on yours and Keith"s faces giving him a bath in the sink and pulling him around in his cute little life vest... He is the Luckiest boy to have such great parents! And, PS, kudos on having a completely Perfect figure with such a little one! Amazing! I'm going to have to get your secret when I have one :o)
Looks like you had so much fun! It was so great to see you the other day. Vander is a doll. Thanks for your sweet comment.
How fun Charayye!! That house boat is amazing!! It sounds like little Vander is such a good baby. So cute to see hime floating in the water!!
It was so fun to see you guys the other night. We definently need to hang out more often!
Oh boy, our computer is finally up and running and I get to see your blog and leave my comments! Are you ready?!....First off, did you really give birth to Vander, because you don't have a single stretch mark and your sooo slim and trim. You're the type of pretty girl other girls like to hate! And, yes, I know you gave birth to him because I was there! Well I enjoyed the pics of Cpt. Vander and Cpt. Keith navigating through the deep waters of Lake Powell, and the sequence where Vander is playing with the ball is very cute. Your faces were pretty terrific when you and Keiffy were giving Vander a bath in the sink! I especially loved the picture of Vander in the hat that Taylor made...the hat is so awesome. So Keith, I didn't know you were such a wakeboarder. I guess that's cuz I'm never out in the speed boat when you guys are flying over the water like crazy men. One of my favorite activities was watching the volcano explosions with the coke and mentos...that was really cool. My very favorite day was the treasure hunt day, and I've got to say that Vander was the cutest little pirate I've ever seen! I do hope that everyone who sees your blog will know that Craig's butt was fake...he will only go so far! All the guys on the banana was pretty funny, and you and Keith in the kayaks was neat. I'm out of room!! Loved the whole blog! Love you. Mom
Charayye, I am so jealous. I have been telling Zach for years that Lake Powell with a house boat would be the perfect vacation!!! Maybe someday. Looks like you all had a blast and you are the cutest little family ever. Yes, you look fabulous just months after having a baby. Amazing!!! Love ya!
PS: I was a little nervous when you put Vander in the water with his life jacket. It was amazing how well that thing really worked. It was a real comfort. :)
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