Lake Powell...Boley/Boley style

The 3rd Annual Boley/Boley Lake Powell Trip is complete...More Fantastic Memories were made with the M. Boley Family...Matt, Maria, Mercer, Marshall and Mena.

It cracks me up that the kids most favorite thing...and the thing each of them requests every year...is to find a beach with mud. This is a MUST! Everything else they can live with out...But without MUD, the trip would NOT be complete! We found the same beach as last year. We love that it has a little bay where the kids can swim out of the way of the boat traffic. It's private and safe...

Mercer, Barik, Cooper, Andrew, Mena, Marshall

Andrew

Barik

Cooper

Drake

Mena

Marshall

Drake

We found lots of little critters. The beach was swimming with big fat red ants, Paul found a few scorpions hiding under rocks, and the boys caught this cute little horned toad who looks like he walked straight off RANGO.

The kids loved the campfire. What not to love about Smores, "telephone" and scary stories?
The scenery was fantastic too...

Sunset (Night 1)

Sunrise (Morning 1)

Andrew and Marshall

Paul and Barik

Cooper

Barik and Cooper

Another favorite is Cliff Jumping...
The Worry Wart in me comes out in a BIG way watching these boys...

This was Barik's first year of Cliff Jumping. He LOVED it!
He would climb up the smaller rocks and jump; climb and jump; climb and jump...

Andrew

Paul
My heart was in my stomach every time Paul jumped...
What would I do without him?!

Mena, Cooper & Drake watching the Big Boys jump.

Andrew

Floating Restrooms?
You never know when you're going to need one of these...

"Please clean up after each use."
Do people really need to be told this?

A huge storm blew our tents over while we were out boating...The stakes that were securing the tents were completely ripped out of the ground. With the wind still howling, we found boulders to line the edges of the tent to keep it from blowing away. We needed shelter from being sand blasted. But we couldn't escape the sand. The wind was blowing so hard that it blew sand up the sides of the tent (through the rain tarp) and then it would rain down on us through the screening at the top of the tent.
Matt and Maria provided Room Service for dinner this night...BBQ chicken with a side of sand.

Sunset? (Night 2)

Poor Tent. I'm not sure it will ever stand upright again...

Drake throwing rocks (with a swimsuit full of poo...he wasn't comfortable taking care of business in our LugaLoo, so by default, his swimsuit became the portapotty. This swimsuit didn't make the trip home with us)

Happy Cooper

What Cooper does, so does Drake...

Barik

Thanks again, M. Boleys for sharing another Fabulous weekend at Lake Powell. Next year, let's put in an order for just sunshine. We can live without the wind and rain. I'm still finding parts of the Lake Powell beach around our house.