Sunday, August 30, 2009

Lake Havasu trip

We are back from our week long vacation at Lake Havasu, and we had a great time! It was so wonderful to spend so much time together as a family, and also with our friends, the Nords. I am posting quite a few pictures of our trip to show some of the things we did!

Faith was excited to get into the water from the moment we arrived! We arrived on Friday night, so she had to wait until the morning to go swimming. At about 8am, she was ready to go and started putting on her life jacket!
Thankfully, Steve was willing to indulge Faith's 8am swimming desire! The only bummer was that it was raining! It actually rained all morning on Saturday. While many were bothered by the rainy weather, I actually enjoyed it as rain is so rare where we live. And we actually had a large thunderstorm one evening, which was great! The "Michigan" in me absolutely loves a good thunderstorm, and so I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Because we didn't know how long the rain would last, I had Steve pick up some puzzles for Faith when he went to the store. Faith of course loved them, and she did them over and over again.

Shane spent most of his time in the water in a ladybug floaty thing, but we also tried the life jacket on him. He preferred the lady bug!

He also enjoyed playing in the sand. We had to keep a paci in his mouth most of the time while he did play so that he wouldn't eat the sand!

Here's Faith in the water on a sunny day! One of the highlights of the trip for Steve and I was watching Faith enjoy the water so much. It is amazing that in just three swimming lessons her confidence in the water could improve so drastically! In the past, she wouldn't spend much time in the water, and if she did, she needed to hold onto one of our hands. On this trip, Faith was in the water as much as we would let her be, and she floated on her own, put her face in the water, and even let me throw her up in the air and into the water!

She also loved riding on the jet ski. Steve and I both took her for rides - apparently Steve was more fun as he would drive faster!

Daddy and his little girl!

On our last full day there, we rented a pontoon boat. Faith enjoyed helping steer the boat!

One of our destinations on the boat was a restaurant across the lake.


Shane had a great time!

Again, it was a great trip! We look forward to making many more memories there!

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