Smith Family: A Break in the Clouds

Sunday, August 16, 2009

A Break in the Clouds

Saturdays have been cursed with rain lately. And cold. The other days are fine, but Saturdays... not so sunny. I've never had such severe wakeboarding withdrawals.

A few weeks ago we tried to squeeze some boating in between the cloudbursts, but all we managed was to suck rocks into the engine on the first run. We are forever grateful to the kind fishermen who braved the weather to give us a tow back to the ramp. Our poor boat was fixed the next week and ready to go again for our vacation, although our pocketbook was drastically lighter.

So yesterday we started our vacation and took the boat out to Island Lake, this time with a prayer that things would go well. It was a blast! I finally rode my beloved wakeboard again and even convinced (well, more like coerced) Taron and Ella to ride the big tube with me.

We invited the Faerbers and watched Betsy show off her slaloming skills (who woulda thunk she could do that?).

Chris still refused to get in, I think it is because of his ankles, but he enjoyed whipping up the waves for the tubers to flop around on.

The water was as warm as a swimming pool (75*) since we had been blessed with a few days in the 80's that week (it's amazing how fast the lakes warm up here). We were enjoying a picnic on a little island when the rains came... fast... but we made it out OK (prayers answered).

I'm a bit sore today but it feels so good, and tomorrow's another day on the lake. I love vacation!

4 comments:

Grapefruit said...: I've never seen a tube like that! Looks so fun. I miss boating. Although your water sounds tad cold for us. Come to Lake Powell! You'll never turn back!; August 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Dan, Pam and Family said...: I'm so... not into water sports, but I Love reading about how much fun you guys have with your boat. Sorry about the repairs, what a pain, but I'm glad you got up and running again.
What a cool looking tube.
Thanks for the update.
Pam; August 18, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Me, Myself and I said...: I just have to say.....that looks like a TOTAL BLAST!!! There is nothin' better than a good Vacay!!!!; August 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Fairy Godmother said...: It looked cold, I have to say! Okay, never seen that tube. One where you can stand up?! Crazy. Our popped on our last outing. They are so darn expensive and finding the hole is always so fun. But our kids LOVE tubing, tons! It's great for all ages. If only we could vacation MORE than we get to, huh! Love it.; August 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM

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The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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A Break in the Clouds

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