"Sun is Shining, Weather is Sweet" -Bob Marley

It was River trip time for us again. Annually we take our boat out with our Imbach ohana to Laughlin. We’ve camped before but this trip was one where we take the boat out all day and come back to shower and sleep in the hotel at night. 

We left for our trip on Memorial Day, going the opposite way of all the coming home traffic (NICE!!) JT took the days off of school and we took the days off (sort of) from Rock Steady. Breeze came with us and The Imbachs had two of their boys, Dev and Bird and another boy from their ward, Kyle. 

We found a great little beach up by the dam and set up camp. Lots of yummy food, tons of gatorade (thank you electrolytes), wake boards, knee boards, skis, and tubes… there was NO shortage of cool stuff to keep us entertained!

JT and HeaBaby love being on the boat and in the water. It was her third year going, funny as how she’s only two… yes, we had her out there when she was 4 months old the first year. My little aquarius/daredevil. They both love to “drive” and Mr. B lets them when there aren’t other boats around. 

The inevitable wind kicked up but didn’t knock us out. We still enjoyed tooling around on our Maxum that we’ve named “The Holo-Holo”. It must run on air, or water, we’ve decided because we only filled up once and towed it home with the tank half full!

It was the perfect kick off to our summer trips, we’re looking forward to coming out to Lake Mohave again. Can’t wait to try out a few other lakes too!

Camping on the River

To kick off Summer and celebrate our nephew Elisha's 9th birthday, we took the boats out to the river and set up camp. We spent 2 nights and 3 hot days on our own little rocky beach. The lake was completely windy the whole time which made lots of tubing and what not a little difficult but we had lots of fun nonetheless.



The highlights were definitely the night rides... after the sun went down a huge full moon took over the whole sky and everything was so calm. We took the boat out and rode around on the dark water. It was amazing! The kids were so wiped they slept hard, the girls enjoyed the rocking of the water as they slept on the boats. I had a hard time the first night because every sound seemed crazy magnified to me. By night two, I slept like a baby cuz I was just as wiped as the kiddos!


Camp food always seems to taste better than regular food. Maybe it's due to the exhaustion of spending your whole day in the sun or the pride in knowing what you contributed to the meal. It was delicious to say the least.

We had a great time as a family and can't wait to do it again!!

Our River Trip

We took our annual river trip May 17th to Laughlin, Nevada. We hitched up the boat and headed up to Ontario to meet up with the Imbachs Sunday afternoon. It's amazing how much you have to pack when you're traveling with a baby! Everyone was taking off together so that we could caravan up to Laughlin. We had a total of 5 cars/trucks towing boats following eachother! It was awesome. There were a few blown out tires, an air conditioner belt issue, and 106 degree weather that really helped start off the trip with a bang!

We got all checked in to the hotel (Jack LOVES staying in hotels) and tried to get as set up as we could so that we could keep the baby's night time routine as normal as possible. Everything was pretty awesome, kids settled in just fine.

The next morning we launched and thanks to the boys help, we got both boats on the water just fine. After everything was set up on the beach (ie. pack-n-play, easy up, chairs and most important food totes!) The men headed out to play and tow. It was nice and warm, Jack had a blast playing in the water on the beach and talking to the "ladies". Nohea did alright considering we didn't really have any of the comforts of home. She wasn't feeling the water since it was a little chilly for her tastes. I managed to keep the majority of the sun off of her. I wasn't messing around this year and lathered my family up with SPF 50. I got all of Robert except for his face! Oh No! That afternoon, the wind REALLY picked up and Nohea was definitely ready to go in. When we got back to the hotel, I had to get sand out of both keikis ears :(
The next day Robert put the bimni up (it's a shade thing) and that's when I really fell in love with our boat! Nohea LOVED going fast on the boat, Jack and Kurtie enjoyed riding up front and I was so much more comfortable on the seats than I was on those darn canvas chairs. We spent the whole day on the boat. We drove around, stopped for swimming in the middle of the lake, and towed a few in the Gyro Spinning tube that Robert bought at Costco online. Even Jack rode in the tube by himself. He got to go for a few Jet Ski rides and then when we came back and pulled the boat onto the sand, he swam from one end of our little cove to the other, stopping at everyone's boats to say hello. We had the best time that second day and really got to get comfortable on our boat. We didn't go in until about 6ish that evening! We had to pull the boat out since our family had to leave early the next morning in order to get back to Long Beach for Jack's T-ball pictures and game. We were sad to leave and have our little vacation be over but we're looking forward to taking a lot more trips on the water this summer!