Weekend Warriors

Last weekend Tiff let me go on a little fishing adventure all by myself. I hiked into lower and middle rock lakes and later on hiked over to angel lake. At angel lake I dropped our camera into the lake and killed it. This is second time that I have killed a camera with water. This week we bought a new water proof camera, so I talked the family into a little day hike up to angel lake.

To get to this secret lake there is no trail, however you follow stacks of rocks called kerns and marks in the trees called blazes. I did mention this part to my family, but failed to mention about the rest of the hike...
...such as the big boulder field we had to cross. At this point there was a lot of whinning and even some cursing of Justins name.
We all caught a lot of grayling. Grayling are a type of fish that are fairly stupid. Throwing a fly to a gralying is like giving a dog a treat, they never turn you down. I knew this lake would be a great place for everone to catch fish. This is Tiffany posing with her fish.
And this is what happens when the fish flops off the fly!
This was Jace's first time catching grayling.

Zack had the easiest ride, but was the most tired by the end.

Cameron and Kaylie's Wedding

Justins brother Cameron got married to his bride Kaylie yesterday in the Timpanogas Temple. It was a beautiful wedding and reception. Kaylie looked absolutely beautiful! It was a busy day but very fun!

Mr and Mrs Cameron and Kaylie Watkins!

Grandpa and Grandma with Zack

Kaylie goes from 0-6 nieces and nephews all in one day! They all adore her!

Watch out Cameron, Zack is trying to take away your girl! Zack LOVES Kaylie!

Kaylie and her flower girls!

Dad and Mom Watkins

Jared, Micah, Joye and Matt

Tiffany, Jace, Justin and Zack

Randy and his beautiful girls-- Abby and Josslyn

Megan and Gerrick

Mom and Dad with all their grandkids

Grandpa holding Zack (that's how it was most of the day--if he wasn't with grandpa he was with grandma)

Grandma Great with her great grandkids. We were all so excited to see Grandma and are so glad she came to visit!

Lake Powell

Last week Justin and I went to Lake Powell with some friends. Mary was so great to watch our 2 boys while we went so we could have a relaxing vacation. This was the first time we ever went to Powell on a houseboat and it was great! The weather was perfect, high 90's the entire week.

Justin brought his fishing pole, of course, and was able to catch a lot of fish. As you can see, they weren't very big. It was cool because you could drop anything in the water and the fish would swarm after it. So fishing was dangling the food in the middle of the swarm and seeing which fish was brave or stupid enough to take the bate. It was pretty entertaining!

I absolutely love this picture of Justin! I think he's so CUTE!

Chad, Justin and Tom on the tube. They had the craziest ride because they were weighed down so much. They had some pretty good crashes but luckily no one got hurt.

Ashley, Justin and Tiffany on the tube

Notice where Justins hands are? That was his way of telling the driver it was an easy relaxing ride. I beg to differ.

Justin wakeboarding--My camera would never take the pic at the right moment so I didn't get any good pics of him jumping the wake, oops
Rainbow Bridge--I hadn't been there since I was like 10 years old. It was cool to go back except now you have to hike in a mile to get to it. Before you could almost drive your boat right up to it.


It was my favorite Lake Powell trip ever! It was very relaxing and a nice get away. I wanted to go on a trip after Justin graduated as our gift to us for making it thru school. The kids were the perfect age to leave them and Mary even offered to watch them for us twice a year for a week! Wow, what a women! Thanks Mary for watching them and giving us a nice break! The kids loved staying with you guys!

Watkins Family Camping Trip

We went to Oaks Park Reservoir for our Watkins family camping trip. It was a really nice camp and the kids especially loved the lake.

Zack and Jared both got to sit on Grandpas lap at the lake. They usually fight and push each other of but they didn't seem to mind it this time.

Joslynn is such a cute little girl I just had to take a picture of her!

Justin took the kids out fishing in a raft attached to his float tube. Both Matt and Abby each caught a fish they were so excited!

Matt and his fish

Abby and her fish. Her fish ended up dying so they cooked it up for her. She wouldn't eat so Uncle Micah ate it for her.

Zack and Jared throwing rocks in the lake.
Zack and Grandma down at the lake. He loves his grandma and is very spoiled by all the attention she gives him!