Fishing at Current Creek

Last Tuesday we took the day and went fishing. It was a beautiful day, although quite breezy. As the day turned into evening the wind settled and the beautiful day became gorgeous. This is the beautiful panoramic view of current creek reservoir.

As the sun continued to set behind us the fishing picked up.

Throughout the day we had several hits that never stuck. We learned that the moss near shore was creating a slack in the line allowing the fish to nibble and not hook themselves. After Mark caught this beautiful Tiger trout we assumed that most of out "hits" were from these beautiful, but small fish.

Shortly after Mark caught this beautiful fish I hooked into this

large cut throat. While it may not have been as beautiful as the

tiger it was very tasty and an exciting catch that caused us to stay and extra 45 minutes making it 8:30 p.m. Before we left the lake.

The entire day fishing was slow, but the ride home was full of color as the sun set casting an orange glow across everything. We stopped to look back on the lake and caught this beautiful view. Then we saw several of these small, but beautiful deer, even two baby fawns, still with their spots walking the mountain side with their

mother. The ride home became very eventful as we changed lanes to avoid a deer on the right side of the road only to quickly serve into the farthest left lane and avoid to elk crossing the road. I don't think my heart left my throat the entire ride home. While Livi and Cami fell asleep, I know I was wide awake as I kept my eyes open for any other creatures that may want to cross the road as well. I think from now on I will talk Mark into staying the night or leaving earlier. I'm not to fond of close encounters.

First missing tooth

On July 10th Olivia lost her first tooth. She was trying to blow up the slider for her slip and slide and out came the tooth. She was so excited, she cam running into the house soaking wet with her tooth in her hand to show me this wonderful event. Her tooth had been loose for a while. The dentist told her a year ago that it would come out soon. So Livi has been waiting for this tooth for nearly a year. No she is playing with the "hole" in her mouth. It's so enjoyable to watch them grow and experience new things, but also sad to see you youngest grow up that quickly.

Wasp's Nest

The girls were climbing the apple tree a few days ago and happened upon this. Of course this frightened them, and as they ran into the house clambering about a nest in the tree I searched out Mark and the wasp spray. Having an allergic reaction to a sting many years ago I try to avoid these things. As Mark and I were trying to decide what type of bee lived in this thing, in flew a large black buzzing bug. Very large and very loud. Needless to say the nest was sprayed and removed from the tree. It now temporarily resides in the bottom of the garbage can and will soon have a permanent home at the dump.

Since the removal of the nest the girls returned to climbing the tree. The little monkeys.

4th of july

A few years ago we started a tradition of camping on the 4th of July. Not very original I know, but along with that we always found ourselves making smoores. So last year when we were unable to go camping we made smoores over bbq briquettes. The kids thought that was so much fun that we did it again this year.

As you can see we are sitting in chairs and on the grass in our back yard. We follow up this sweet treat with glow sticks and then watching the city's fireworks. I guess we might have to build a fire pit in the back yard next year to prevent the small dead circle of grass created from this fun. But the dead grass is worth the stories the kids tell the following year.

Fishing Trip

Mark took Cami and Livi fishing last week. They all had a lot of fun on grandpa's boat. Olivia even called me after lunch to tell me about all the fish they had caught and the one she had just caught. We had a delicious dinner of fish the following night.