Cowabunga Bay

Last weekend we decided to wrap up our summer with a trip to the water park. You can see Cowabunga Bay from the freeway whenever we drive into Salt Lake and Emmett has always wanted to go. Its been really hot here lately so we decided to do it. The only problem was it was the last Saturday before school started so it was PACKED. Claire cried on and off the entire time we were there so she pretty much hated it. It was really loud with all the people and she hated any droplet of water that touched her. But by the end of the day she finally gave up being miserable and fell asleep on the lazy river in her daddy's arms. Emmett and the rest of us had a great time! It was a little tricky doing the bigger slides because we had 2 little kids. So Mike and I would take turns watching Emmett and Claire in the kiddie area, while one of us would go wait in line and go down a slide, and vice versa. 

Oh Claire....I think this is the only time I saw her smile. She's such a cute little stinker.

I hadn't taken any pictures by mid-day since all I really wanted to do was be in the water anyways. So when we took a break for a snack I decided we should at least try and get a family picture in.

I only had my big zoom lens with me (Emmett broke our regular one...so sad). So I thought I'd take a couple practice shots with the camera to make sure I'd get all of us in the picture. I had to back waaaay up in order to do it. The above picture is Mike trying to tell Claire to look at me.

This one was a decent shot, but I didn't want it to be an up and down picture cause it was too narrow.

Claire with the sun in her eyes and Emmett was hot and tired and only interested in his Goldfish.

Finally I asked a lady to take our picture for us. Mike and I laughed our heads off when we saw it. Claire's swimsuit is just a tad too big for her. hahaa. I didn't even bother trying for a second attempt and I DON'T think this picture will become my next blog header!