Lake Powell!!

Every year my family goes to Lake Powell. I have not been for the past 6 years! This year I was determined to go! I am so happy that I did! I had such a blast with the cousins, aunts and uncles, and of course grandma Nan. I was also glad that Amy and Kris went! I had such a good time with them! Before we left Kris asked Amy and I, "ok, what are our goals for this trip?" Amy and I looked at each other like... what is he talking about. Finally I said, "my goal is to get tan."Amy said, "my goal is to read my books." Kris just looked at us and said, "why go to the lake to do that..." :) I am happy to report that our "goals" were met! Amy read her books and I definitely got my tan, watch tan and all!! (love ya Kris!!) 

Every year its a tradition to do a "tumbleweed fire". This is something that we usually do the end of the week but the guys were so excited that they decided to do it the first night. A few of us stayed at the houseboat while most of the guys went off to do their thing. We were just sitting there when we saw the fire and heard yells, screams...We knew right away that something was wrong.

Some of us that were on the houseboat started running out to make sure things were okay when we saw some people on their way back. My cousin Ryan said that he was burned and that he wasn't okay. We got back on the houseboat and realized that his legs were burned from the knees down. My cousin Taye is a nursing student at NAU so she started telling us what she needed and we all set out to work. We got things together, gave him a blessing, and luckily one of us had some vicodine on us. So we got him clean, wrapped up, and drugged up. The next day they went into town to take him to the hospital. They came back saying he had 2nd degree burns and that they wanted to see him the following day to follow up. So on Tuesday they made the trek back into town. The hospital had a burn specialist come in and they realized that the burns were more 3rd degree and that he needed to be flown back home to Utah, because they were worried about the circulation in his legs of driving back. As of now he is home and doing well. The doctors are impressed at how well he is recovering. (Fire part of blog is totally from AMY'S blog!! I thought that she described it the best! Love you Am! And thanks!) After this trip I am so grateful for my family! We all learned the power of the priesthood, prayer and the strength that the family can have on one another! I am blessed to be apart of such an amazing family.