Consider yourself warned!

I love to be home and to wake up to the sound of the sprinklers clicking, the neighbors roosters crowing and the cows mooing but I am still dreaming of waking up at Lake Powell with the sound of the waves crashing from the early morning water skiers who go out for the golden water before everyone else hits the lake and ruins it.

A couple of years ago, we took our friends, the Rices, with us on the house boat in the middle of the summer. They live in Canada, so the 115 degree weather was a big shock to them, but they were willing to endure it because their kids hadn't ever swam in a warm lake before. Their kids were only used to swimming the Waterton Lake where their cabin is and it is a very cooooold glacier lake.

We taught Shauna how to wake board while they were at Powell. So her husband, Mike, got out the camera to take pictures of her starting behind the house boat. Two things happened while she sat in the water that day: my oldest son, Alex, didn't yell "fore!" before he threw the ski rope to her and her husband yelled for her to look at him so he could snap a picture. She never saw what was coming! Now Alex isn't an athlete, but that day he had the aim of a pro and hit her square on the nose and broke it. Immediately she had blood everywhere and we got her out of the water onto the couch with an ice pack. Her baby was only a few months old, so she sat trying to nurse him while she held her head back with an icepack sitting on her nose. The even funnier part was she had two black eyes and a swollen nose to go to her family reunion the next day where they were going to take family pictures with the whole family. She definitely will never forget that day!

While we were on that trip, Shauna made us this easy taco salad.

Saute 1T. butter and one onion chopped, then add and brown 1 pound of ground beef. Add 1 package of taco seasoning. In a large bowl, shred a head of lettuce, (I like to use scissors to cut the lettuce into strips,) one avocado, diced, and some chopped cilantro.
Open and drain the following then add to the lettuce:
A half can of kidney beans, half of a can of black beans, half of a can of corn. Add two diced tomatoes and 1C. grated cheese. Add the meat and crumbled tortilla chips.
Serve hot or cold with salsa, sour cream and guacamole.

Consider yourself warned: It's always an adventure with the Christenson's!