Can We Please Buy a Boat?

Ever since our boating trip on Memorial Day, the kids have been asking when we would be going again. We try to tell them it's a bit difficult to go boating when you don't own a boat, but they don't seem to grasp where the problem lies. So when friends invited us to go boating the day of our drive to Utah, we had no problem rearranging our vacation schedule, unpacking our suits, and heading up to Lake Bartlett for the day.

With Memorial Day's boating trip fresh in his memory, Braden was a bit nervous to give the wake board another try. We were hopeful that our friends' boys would offer some new advice that would help Braden succeed in getting up this time around. Unfortunately, we found ourselves circling back time after time to drop the rope.

Failure is very discouraging and it takes a strong person to continue on with its constant nagging. Thankfully Braden has no shortage when it comes to determination and it payed off. It only took getting up just once, and after that we had a hard time getting him down.

While Braden and Ryan enjoyed the wake and surf boards (skiing, what's that?), the girls squealed on the tube and swam to cool off. It was a great time! The only problem... we still don't have a boat and all we've heard since leaving the lake are constant pleas to buy one - and it's Ryan and I doing the pleading!