More Sacajawea Photos

Well, my dad sent me some photos from our trip to Lake Sacajawea and since my school computer is lightyear's ahead of my home computer, I thought that I would share them and save Katie some time since she had previously promised to post more pictures. We sure had a great time and are looking forward to next year already. Without any further adieu:


Katie getting ready to do an ollie 180:



Katie getting some air:


Here I am doing a "wake jump":


And I am attempting some type of an invert here. It looks like a tantrum, but more realistically I was probably attempting a backroll (I still need some work;)) :



Finally, here is a family photo of us relaxing. Notcie how the nice the water is. We enjoyed nice water most of the week...so what were doing wasting the good water just sitting around in a tube?



The smooth water brought up one more point. I don't if Katie brought this up or not, but her parents came out and joined us the last part of the week and enjoyed some great dutch oven cooking and chatting. The funny part though is that Lloyd/Pa Bell is a slalom skier and brought up his own ski. The day he got up to the lake we took him out and water was extremely choppy. The smooth water never really returned, so out there in a White-cap filled cove we all (Pa Bell, Cody, my Dad and my self) strapped on the slalom ski for a run as we could not be out done by Katie's dad :). In our mentality, we never want to waste smooth water on water skiing, might as well use it for wake boarding, so we were OK taking our slalom runs on choppy water. It was quite fun trying to make rooster tails while you're bouncing up and down. We did get out the wake surf and Pa Bell did very well on that, even better than my brother Cody I might add.

The Bell Family Reunion - 2008

Last week we were able to attend the Bell Family reunion. It took place partially in Utah (where we played at Seven Peaks the first day and Lagoon the second day), and partially in Idaho where we stayed in a cabin for 2 nights on Henry's Lake, and did some sight seeing at Yellowstone Park. My cousin also brought is boat over from Montana for one night and we did a little wakeboarding. Correction...Mike did some wakeboarding. Unfortunately we ran over the rope and had to be towed back in to the dock to unravel the rope from the prop. By then, the water was chop central and I didn't get another opportunity to go board...so sad. The last day we stayed at a Girl's Camp in Idaho and tried to stay away from the mosquitoes and run-away cows.

I must give some mad props to my parents for all of their planning and hard work. It took a lot of effort, patience, planning and money to host such an amazing family reunion. We had a blast Mom and Dad...thanks for everything!

Note: yes, we are all wearing the same shirt. My parents had reunion shirts made for us. My parents own an orchard in Oregon and so the shirts have a picture of the logo on them. Those red shirts sure were easy to spot at Lagoon.

LAGOON

Day #2 of the reunion was spent at Lagoon. Oh, can I just tell you how much I LOVE roller coasters? It's a good thing Mike does too. And, come to find out so does Jack. We had such a fun day. It was hot, but still a lot of fun.


Jack on the Carousel. He loved this thing!



Me, Mike and Nick getting ready to take off on the rocket...or whatever you call it.




Me, Jack and Mike high atop the Ferris Wheel. That's what you call this thing, right? I can't remember for some reason.



Mike, Jack and I coming out of the Haunted House. We did not intentionally take Jack on this to scare him to death, it was just one of the few rides we could all go on together. Jack was a little nervous, but I don't think he'll be scarred for life.

West Yellowstone

The morning after Lagoon we headed up to West Yellowstone to stay at a cabin up on Henry's Lake. As previously mentioned, my cousin Matt brought his boat over from Montana. Other than the fact that we got the rope caught on the prop, and it was a little windy and downright COLD, oh...and that Mike was the only one that got to wakeboard before the rope incident...it was a BLAST.


Jack enjoying the ride...and telling us about something very important, I'm sure.




My cousin Matt trying to flag down the only other boat on the lake to come help us. They didn't see us. That, or they just didn't want to help. People at this lake were a little less than pleased to see a big wakeboarding boat on their "fishing" lake.



Me freezing to death.



Jack having no problem keeping himself completely occupied.

Kickin' It At The Girls Camp

For the last night of the trip we traveled about 1 hour from our cabin in West Yellowstone to this Girl's Camp in Idaho. I can't remember the name of it, but other than the vicious mosquitoes it was a lot of fun. They had a swimming pool, horseshoes, basketball, etc. Seriously though, the mosquitoes were deadly and I'm still scratchin' most of them.




Jaike, Jack, and Johnny. These three were all born the same year. Jaike belongs to my sister Becca, Jack to me, and Johnny to my sister Bethany. They were like three little triplets running around together. I think they developed a love/hate relationship because if they weren't cracking up at one another then they were hitting or pushing one another.




Jaike and Jack playing with the sprinkler. For some reason this was very entertaining to them, even though the water was not on they played like this for quite some time.



Nick and Dad playing an intense game of horseshoes. I'll have you know that Mike and I played a game too and I whopped all over Mike. It was awesome. Love you Mikey.




Two of the cabins we stayed in. There were about 8 cabins like this, along with a bathroom/shower building and a central cabin with the kitchen and eating area in it.

More Boating

Click here (and then scroll down the post on July 9th) to see a pic of me wakeboarding. We went out boating earlier this week, and Janni and Marvin caught a few shots of us behind their boat out on Utah Lake.

Lake Sacajawea

We returned from our week on the lake and what a fantastic week it was. However, I am sitting here scrolling through the pictures that I took during that week and there aren't very many of them. As a matter of fact, there is not a single picture of Mike or I wake boarding and that was the entire point of the trip! I know Mike's Mom took pictures of us boarding so I'll have to get those from her.


In the meantime, here are some shots from our fun on the lake.



On our way to the lake we stopped at Mike's Aunt Nina and Uncle Ritchie's house in Baker, Oregon. They are true farmers and Jack LOVED "driving" the tractor.


Mike and Jack giving us the "thumbs up." This is a new trick for Jack and he does it all of the time now.



This was one of Jack's favorite things to do. Mike would dip Jack behind his head so he could put his hands in the water. Jack thought it was so funny!



This would probably be the least favorite thing Jack had to do: get his poopy swim diaper changed on the swim platform of the boat. It was a nice boat and we didn't want to get poop on everything so the swim platform it was...much to Jack's dismay.



Jack's other favorite thing to do was stand on the swim platform and kick his feet in the water. The water was a little frigid (60 degrees) due to a late summer, so Jack wasn't too thrilled about getting all the way in the water, but he sure did love to kick around it it.