Family PowellPalooza 2011!!

Finally I get this post up! Chandler and I bought plane tickets to go home for Labor Day weekend for my birthday! It was a quick trip but it was so worth it! Here is my sweet husband carrying our bags! The second we landed my Dad and Juanette picked us up in Vegas and we drove straight to Lake Powell. We spent 4 days on the lake and then drove straight back to Vegas and got on the plane! Its a good thing that the 5 hour flight is not that bad at all!

Here is the WHOLE family in front of our houseboat! My Dad and Juanette, Coby Sr. and Coby Jr. and his girlfriend, Ian and his girlfriend, Carol, Desi and Zeke and baby Janson, Antonio and his wife, Dennis and Kaylene, Chandler and I, Kimberly and her kids, Kevin and Lauren, Mom and Kenneth, and Sierra and Jaret and their kids! A big group but so awesome!My dad showing everybody how strong Janson is!! 6 months old and he can do pull ups! Most infants would let their arms be limp when held like this at their wrists and being lifted up but he is so strong so he holds himself up with bent elbows in pull up position! He has a 6 pack already and little defined muscles in his back! It is hilarious!
What a stinkin cutie!
LOVE the rolls!
LOVE his speedo- and he matched Zeke in his speedo!

We watched a movie at night on top deck the houseboat with a projector.

My mom looking for something in he lower compartment of boat

Chandler and Zeke getting ready to load the wave runners...

We did a lot of tubing and everyone got worked by our crazy boat driver, Carol!

Chandler, Jaret, and Zeke, They were a riot to watch. They came up with every possible strategy to stay on that tube! (I have the funniest videos I will try to upload)


Palooza group 2011 was our neighbors for the weekend! So basically a group of 200 single/and married Mormon people go to Lake Powell every year and take it to the extreme!
You Name it, This group had it! A huge bike ramp from the sand hill into the lake, A tube slide off the hill, volleyball tournaments, a 20 minute illegal firework show, a dance floor with a DJ, lights, and TWO foam machines, a BLOB! And much more. They were the nicest group of people!
They kept coming over and inviting us over to hang out so we would go over and interact with them or watch them do their crazy stunts, jumps, and throws off the blob!
My sister Sierra and I and my niece Dawn went over for the foam party! It was a blast!
Here is their dance floor and tent. It was legit!


My sister Sierra and Dawn dancing




Dancing under the foam!
Dont ask!
Here is one of their houseboats and they connected the blob to it and threw people into the air all day long! It was so entertaining to watch! I wanted to do it so bad but a lot of the girls were getting bruised, and hurt-so no thanks! But my step brother did it, Chandler did it, my niece Rhiannon did it, and a few other boys in our group did it!
Here are some of the girls I met while there! They were posing on the wake ramp.
It was my birthday while we were there on Sept 4th. We had a big Luau dinner and some great Hawaiian food that my dad and Juanette did!
Janson and I at the party
The Luau birthday party on top our houseboat!
Chandler and Brooklyn getting food!
Juanette made the best cake!
yes I blew out all 25 candles at once!

Later after dinner we had our own dance party with glow sticks! We open the sticks and throw the color everywhere! Its really cool!


After dancing with the glow sticks we as a family let lanterns go into the sky! Each couple got a lantern. They are these big white biodegradable lanterns and they take off of their own from your hands and you can watch them for up to two miles! It was a very special thing! It reminded me so much like the movie Tangled! I think everyone really enjoyed it!



We had such a wonderful time! I'm so happy we were able to go home for my birthday and be at Lake Powell with both our families! Oh how I making memories at Lake Powell!

Some random videos!
*Letting go Lanterns
*Janson dancing
* A few tubing
* Our Houseboat neighbors biking off the ramp
* Antonio and Ian and Kevin going off the blob (my camera died on Chans turn, Sierra recoreded it so I have to get it from her)

Abhasa and Khakara

Okay so Ill try to do this in as little of a nut shell as possible! So.. as most of you know I have gone back to school to pursue my bachelors degree, which I am LOVING so far but boy it can/has been stresssssful! It probably doesn't help that I have a full plate with taking 18 credits(never been to college B4), just got called to be the 1st counselor in the YW (yes a new calling already- I tell ya, our ward is needy so you literally go where they NEED you, also I gladly accepted it as it was to take over my friend Olya's calling due to her temporary return to Russia after the funeral), and I'm a girls camp leader, I'm working TWO jobs and trying to be a wife! Wheww! Yes! Talk about busy!

As some of you know, but I have never mentioned it on here, I quit working with the plastic surgeon... Basically I didn't care for him, his office, his ideas, his practice, his style etc (and that's me being nice) ha! Maybe I have been spoiled in the past and now have high expectations after working for Dr. Crofts and Dr. Patel in Utah. But, I was not about to get involved in a job and get walked over before it was too late to get out. I know that it was not for me and not where I needed to be at in my life. This is when I was strongly prompted to go back to school after many prayers and pondering. The idea on going back to school became so clear to me it was unreal. And the time was so right. Any who so being in school for a few weeks I started looking for a job that could be fun that would be for the evenings and that would fit my schedule, be a mindless job and still continue to bring home some mula. So long story short of the process I am "seriously so blessed" that I got "in" at Abhasa and Khakara Spa! Abhasa is a world known Resort Spa here at the Sheraton in Waikiki and Khakara is a world known Resort Spa in the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel both which are located right next to each other on the beach front. They are both owned by the same company. So if you get hired at one you are employed at both! Which is so nice because being employed at two spas means I am constantly booked and I mean constantly! They are the two busiest spas in Waikiki because they have been around for YEARS and the marketing is out there known to the world with it being corporate. I'm a little sentimental about the Royal Hawaiian because my Grandpa used to take my Grandma there years and years ago to stay often at the"pink" hotel. (Gma 96 yrs old today)

Anybody who has been to Waikiki has seen the Royal Hawaiian!

So in The Royal Hawaiian is Abhasa

Here is our Sauna at Abhasa

Some of our treatment rooms are outdoors- I love giving facials in the cabanas!

Here is the pool side of the Sheraton! Wow! I work here! I love it, I live it, and I think I get a discount on rooms!

Here is Spa Khakara at the Sheraton
A relaxation room at Khakara
Our front lobby area

So far I love working in Waikiki. I love my guests the majority are Japanese which are of such a sweet culture. So easy to please and great to work with. My first day I had a 5 hr shift..4-9 so in 5 hours I had 5 facials. Each day has been no different. They keep me slammed and it will be like this all thru out the year. Thanks to the Japanese that have money! So it is so nice to be working hard and getting paid resort pay!!!

And I am SO SAD I have to say goodbye to my fun fun job! I will miss working at the mall. Many of your don't know that I have been working part time at White House|Black Market for almost a year now! It is not my choice to quit but I'm not making any money there. I can't burn the candle and both ends. I have to simplify my life. I guess that means simplifying my closet too. I love the girls there so much, working with tourist shoppers and helping spend their money on cute outfits, and (YES the clothes, Ill miss my clothes, that's why I am/was there). I hate having to quit but its for the better.

Bye WHBM!! Bye my cute clothes discount!