Sunday, September 6, 2009

Lake Shasta

Last wednesday we headed to Lake Shasta which is about 2 1/2 hours away and boarded our houseboat!



Here is Ella with her cousins Ellie and Seth. Ella wore this neat suit most of the week. My sister found these at Sam's Club and they were perfect. It has the life preserver in the suit so we didn't have to keep messing with a life jacket.



It has been years since we have done one. It was a blast! We all had so much fun. It was the perfect vacation in that we got to do fun stuff together but it was still relaxing. Ella loves hanging out with her cousins! Especially my sister Nikki's daughter Alexis. For some reason the 2 have started calling each other Jello so that is there nickname for one another. Kind of cute!



I also was able to get up on one ski which I haven't done since Ella was born. That was awesome and felt so nice! I tried wakeboarding and did pretty good until I caught the edge and smacked the left side of my body against the water really hard! I have bruises all down my body from my shoulder and back on down. It hurt so bad. I think I will stick with skis. I just like it so much better. Sure it has something to do with not being much of a snowboarder either.



Ella loved this water trampoline! It was a lot of fun for her.


Here is me and Steve after we had been jumping and diving off the very top. I jumped, he dived and did all sorts of tricks with my dad. Me and my 2 sisters also jumped off the very top altogether. That was fun!


Such a great trip and can't wait to do it again!

5 comments:

Brian and Jessica said...

You're making me homesick with all these posts!! Between the camp pictures from the last post (lots of great memories there!!) and the houseboat pictures at Shasta (my favorite lake, we used to go down every summer when I was little!) it's making me want to move back there too!! Hope you're loving it! I can't believe how big Ella is getting and how much Nikki's daughter looks like her!! I totally knew that she was her's before I even read it!! Ü When is the next kid coming for you two?!

The Price Family said...

Aw, that looked fun! What a nice little vacay! Ella sure looked like she was having a blast with all of her little cousins. I totally wanna see your battle wounds from smacking the water...that part did not sound fun at all!

Katie Huff said...

That is so awesome!!! That looked like a ton of fun and I can't believe how adorable Ella is! I miss seeing her so much!!! Do you guys have skype or Gmail? I want to see if we can get a video chat going on with you guys some evening. Let me know. It would make all of our days and weeks and month!!!! :-)

curlyrhee said...

I'm so jealous!!!I'm sitting here looking at the pics with the fam and totally crying because I miss out on all the fun. Love ya lots, Marie

hdawgy said...

Looks like a ton of fun! Ella is so dang cute!!