Best of Lake Powell

OK so here it is...

The Lake Powell Awards. Maybe on the same level as the Darwin Awards but no one has to die to get one.

Sorry no pictures yet... some coming soon.

Best Houseboat Driver goes to my Dad. He drives it every year, but this year he did it the best.

Best Vacation Planner goes to my Mom. Meals, extra sunscreen, she thinks of everything.

Best Surrogate Child/Right Hand Man (woman) goes to our friend Kir, who is ultimately more helpful than all of the Birth Children. What can we say? We're all pretty lazy...

Best Smiliest, Nicest, Kindest, Most Thankful Person goes to Doug's friend Kaela. Who would say thank you to the ski boat driver, even after she wiped out hard.

Best D.J. goes to Doug who kept us in tunage for the trip.

Best Quotable Quote goes to Jay. "Guys...I'm sinking...I'm really sinking here...guys?" Apparently his life vest wasn't really as buoyant as it needed to be, and the wake board was really buoyant. Pretty much every body just watched, and laughed. Sorry Jay. Welcome to the family.

Jay gets two awards this year. Best Improvisation of First-Aid-ish/Meeting a Very Specific Need Thingy. The Skill Socks are marvelous! Can't wait to be able to buy them at R.E.I. Also I think you should go with the rainbow color scheme to pay tribute to the bad 80's life vest. Maybe some stripes at the top?

Best Hair and Most Swim Suits goes to Lindsay, who always looked stunning.

Best Mullet goes to Jack

Best Ski Boat Driver goes to Brian Farnsworth who hauled us around the lake daily to wake board. You are awesome and I know you didn't get in the water nearly as much as you'd have liked.

Best Wake Board Coach goes to Julie, who finally talked Elleory onto the board and up out of the water, from the water. Way to go!

Most Naked Kid and best Pee'r off the boat goes to Cannon.

Best behaved baby goes to Mya.

Most Improved Wake Boarder goes to Brian Bergholm, who just started this year and got up the very first time, and started turning. You make us all look bad honey, but WOW!

Best Beginner goes to Elleory who also started boarding this year. Way to go kiddo! You make your Mama so proud. Keep it up.

Best Sleeping Through The Final Wind Storm goes to Anders and Liam. Who amazingly slept through the noisiest storm.

Finally, the Award for Best Wipe-Out Without Dying goes to me. Pretty sure for about half a day that I broke my nose. But really I'm OK, and the bruising is not so noticeable anymore.

We had a great trip, that went way too fast. Nobody died, or had to go to the hospital. We all ate well, and slept as much as one can in that situation.

Can't wait for next year!