Canyon Lake

Monday we spent the day at Canyon Lake. It was a beautiful, hot day and perfect for some beach time. Maura was pretty good about wearing a life-jacket most of the time.

She enjoyed playing on the sand and loved riding in the boat watching the wakeboarders. She rode a big "water weenie" once and really had a good time. We almost made it through the entire day without naughtyness, but I should have known. On the last run of the day one of the friends that was invited along (a young man) got out to do some "Smurfing" (mini-surfing behind the boat-supercool) and left his hat on the seat of the boat. Maura was wandering around and I wasn't paying much attention to her other than making sure she wasn't climbing over the edge. I looked up when she brought me something and said "Candy". I realized too late that she had taken the boy's tobacco from his hat and dumped it all over my legs, the seat and the floor! UGH. That's a terrible smell! I spent the next 30 minutes trying to clean up and scooped water out of the lake to wash everything off. Silly girl.

My only consolation was that the kid was embarrassed that he had brought along his chew and didn't have any more left after the Mookster tried to help him kick his habit.


Dallin had a super time. His favorite thing to do is knee-board and he wanted to do it with me! That made me feel super good that he would want his MOM not his dad to go out with him! We got to have a really long ride and by the end of it he was being brave and trying to go over the wake and be a little more adventurous.

It was a fun day and we came home tired, sore and sun burned. Dallin's new question for us is "When are WE going to get a boat?".