Fishy Fishy in the Brook

Daddy teaching son the art of Fishing

Getting the Ugly Stick ready

Kiss the lucky fish

The kids and the fish

Chillin on the porch

Drake and Sami Getting tummy time

The Giant Teddy Bear loves me!


Checkin out the grass

Nate touching a snake for the first time. GO NATE!

Drake touching his first snake

Grandpa making Drake Laugh

Some more porch chillin



This weekend my family met in Beaver to enjoy everyone's day off. It was so nice to get to hang out with the whole family. We did miss Eric's wife Heidi, she was still in Kansas selling pesticides, but we'll get to hang out with her soon. We stayed in Buck Hurst's cabin and had a great time. We spent saturday at Lake Lebaron up on beaver mountain fishing. Now if any of you like to fish or are looking to get into fishing I have a suggestion to make. Don't waste your time or money shopping for and buying an expensive fishing pole. For the past three or four years we have gone camping and fishing up to Lake Lebaron and every year there is one fishing pole that out shines the rest. This pole has been well worth the $10 that was spent puchasing it. The first year we thought it was a fluke, a joke. The next year it was a contest to see if a combination of the other fishing poles could catch as many fish as the one amazing pole. This year once again it out fished every pole at the lake and this year it was nine other poles. The secret pole is a Scooby Doo kids pole. The other poles that caught the majority of the fish were Barbie and Princess poles. Scooby realed in 9 fish and lost countless more as the fish were almost to shore. The real highlight came when Dan who got his first fishing pole for fathers day caught his one and only fish. The morning began with Dan about twenty feet from the nearest fisherman. As the day progressed and Scooby and Barbie were realing in so many fish he moved a little closer to the group. Later on he sandwiched himself between Barbie and Scooby. Everyone had caught a fish except for Dan and we could not leave the lake until he caught one. Thankfully he caught his 8 in. fish released it back and we got off the mountain before the storm hit.

While we were enjoying a peaceful day at the lake casting and realing there was another feathery fisherman that had us all mezmorized. This bird was circling above the lake and would start a dive and then stop. As we continued to watch this beautiful bird it dove again and this time did not stop, it grabbed a fish and flew away with the wiggleing fish in it's talons. It was so amazing! The bird came back and flew around several times but did not dive again.

The rest of the weekend was spent hanging around the cabin and watching the big Bucks, the Does, and the wild Turkeys come in and eat out of the mangers. It was a nice weekend and it was great to not have to look at a clock. I can't wait for the next vacation.