Jordanelle

Corey and I didn't go on a ride today. We were ok to rest our legs after our big climb last night. Corey got up early and left with Mel to go to Jordanelle (to get Mark's truck) and then they drove up to Layton (to fill the truck with stuff) and then to Bountiful to pick up Christian and his family's boat. I slept in and then got the kids breakfast. After our SpongeBob wake up call, one by one different groups headed out to Jordanelle. Joseph took him and Eliza & Mary, Sophi, Natalie, Owen, Daniel, Peter in Corey's car. Hyrum, Abi, Lily and Katharine went with Wayne. There wasn't room for me (well, Hyrum would have stayed but he said he didn't care either way, and I'd rather stay at the hotel than be at the beach, so he went for me, and I waited until Ethan & Bella were ready to go. I got there at lunch time. People were playing a card game. Christian had a group of kids out on the water. K was hanging around the food. I took her down to the pavilion and gave her a bowl of peanut MnM's, which she was working on in this pic -

Then she wanted my hat. It looks cuter on you, Katharine.

Group one coming back from fun on the water.

Joseph holding the boat while kids unload. Joseph came and swapped out with Eliza. Ethan holding the boat while group 2 loads up.

Those of us at the pavilion took turns helping with the babies. Little Mary looking so comfy snuggled up to her Uncle Hyrum.

Corey was holding Alvie, and I was down below on a beach chair and really loved my view of him.

Loving those cheeks! 

And that chin and neck!!! Oh my gosh Alvie you're so stinkin' cute!

It was a good day at Jordanelle, even though it was quite windy. I'll share pics of from the boat if Abi or Natalie or anybody took some. Sophi and Natalie got pretty burnt. They were out for both trips and they didn't put any sunblock on for some stupid reason. The boy did good protecting themselves. It's also too bad that the beach where we were at this time was all rocks. That made it hard to make a sand castle. I took Katharine to the bathroom like 4 times, but she wasn't able to go/relax. Around 4pm K was ready to be done, so she and I and Peter headed back with Nancy. Cousin Rhyan holding up K's head in the car after she started to nod off...

I headed back early so I could get started making dinner. We did Asian rice bowls, with potstickers, Spring rolls, and lots of veggies topped with teriyaki sauce. I had brought up shrimp, but I wasn't able to do it all by myself, but that's ok, we had enough for everyone, plus some of Joseph's friends (Talmage, Scotty Ben, and Spencer and their wives and kids who came up to swim and hang out. Katharine was happy to have a new friend in Annie (Scotty's cute little girl). Everyone went swimming, I stayed in the room with kids and cleaned up a little bit. It was a good day. I'm hoping we're able to go biking at Deer Valley tomorrow. We had planned to do that on Tuesday, cause the river was going to be on Monday, but then Monday turned into a hotel day and Tuesday was Provo River. It's been a full week, and tomorrow was supposed to be a hotel day before the family bbq. So we'll see what we do.