Boating

We had the chance to go boating twice while we were in Utah.  Brad's Uncle Ed and his fun family invited us to join them water skiing and then we were also able to spend some more time on the lake tubing and swimming with our friends, the Jackmans. 

When Brad got out of the boat to ski for the first time in years, I joked with him mentioning how embarrassing it would be if he couldn't get up in front of all of his younger cousins.  Well, after the first pull of the boat, he didn't get up, to which Ella turned to me and said, "Mom, you were right. . .Daddy is not going to get up!"  We all had a good laugh over that one, and sure enough Brad proved us wrong the next time around and got back into the hang of skiing.  He did sound like an old man though, whining about how sore he was for the next few days.  :) We let Ella and Maggie try waterskiing off the boom for the first time (to mixed reviews) and all of the girls just LOVED being on the boat even without getting in the water themselves!

We were then able to go boating with the Jackmans at Willard Bay, and spent our time with the more kid-friendly activities of tubing and swimming.  Maggie LOVED the tube and giggled with every bump, large or small (our little daredevil).   Ella enjoyed it too, but would let us know it was time to stop if things got a little too wild for her.  Hadley wanted NOTHING to do with it, and felt much safer riding in the boat with Mom!

 

 

 Thanks for the fun times everyone!  (Now Brad is dreaming of his own boat someday. . .)