Havasu!!!

Our friends the Miller's asked us to share a house with them in Havasu and we jumped at the chance.  Garrett and I both love Havasu but haven't been in years.  Before kids when life was about drink, fishing and having fun. :)  This was a different kind of trip to Havasu but just as if not more fun and exciting.  We arrived on Thursday, unpacked the car and Tatum and Ty got right to work on a game of checkers.

Jeff and Laura arrived with their two daughters, Sierra, almost 5 years old, and Kylie, almost 2.  The house was awesome!  It had 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a large living room with pool table and these cool spiny chairs that the kids couldn't get enough of.

Here's Sierra enjoying her turn!

After dinner, we jumped on the Miller's boat and took a spin around the lake and over to the canals in Havasu.  Our house was over on the opposite side of the lake from the town so it was nice and quite over there.

The kids LOVED the boat!  And a ride in the dark!

The next day we took the boat over to a little island where the kids could play in the dirt and water while we enjoyed music, Frisbee and drinks.

The boys and the boat.

So attractive guys. :)

Kylie was the sweetest girl enjoying her water and Cheetos.

Enjoying some much needed family relaxing time.  The weather was awesome, not too hot and not too cold.  Perfect!

 

We took a walk around the island...

and Garrett taught the kids how to do an army crawl. :)

After a long and fun day on the boat, we headed home for some corn shucking.

These two are hilarious and we loved hanging with them.  So easy going, so funny, a great weekend.

The next morning the kids were out at the boat and ready for some more fun.  They couldn't wait!

We went back to our island, bringing a few more toys with us this time.

I think these two were splashing each other.  Ty's favorite part of the trip was getting to pee anywhere he wanted to.  Numerous times we'd turn around and he'd have his pants down, takin' a pee.  I guess that's what you can do when you're out on an island with no one in sight! :)

Tatum and Daddy enjoyed some Frisbee.  Tatum got pretty good at her throw.

And Jeff enjoyed surveying the situation. :)

 

And this sweet little one enjoyed playing in the mud with sand toys and being such a good girl the whole trip.

Is this a spa?  Is she getting a mud bath? :)

Somebody is.

After leaving the island, we rode over to Pirate Cove.  Jeff was going really fast which was super fun but when we slowed down, everyone had a crazy hair do.  Love the wave Ty!

And look at Kylie, no need for hair spray! :)

Pirate Cove is this cool place where you can stay in cabins, pull your boat in and enjoy zip lining, or just stop and eat at the Pirate Cove restaurant.  There were lots of boats and lots of people here.

My babies.  They each got these cool pirate hats at the restaurant.  Ty's favorite part at the restaurant was the wooden pirate statues.  They had a pirate girl statue that had some large breasts popping out the top of her shirt, and when we walked by, he stopped dead in his tracks, pointed with his mouth gaped open and said, "boobs!".  A guy was standing near and said, "Did he just say what I think he said?!" laughing, it was pretty funny.  Too bad Ty wasn't talking about her boots. :)

On the way back from Pirate Cove, we stopped in another area and Tatum pushed Jeff off the boat.  She'd loved that and still talks about it. :)

In went Daddy!

 

Ty said he wasn't going in, just happy to check out the large mountains around us.

And no matter how cold the water was, Tatum jumped in too!  I was so proud of her.  We absolutely loved this trip and loved the Miller's.  We pinkie swore that we'll be back next year, can't wait!