Camping, fishing, camping, snacking, and more camping.After work Monday Lisa, Trace, Kenya and I loaded up the Explorer and headed to the forest.
We weren't sure exactly where we were going and after circling around the lake we ended up finding a spot around 10:30 at night. Mosquitos feasted on Lisa. We had brought dryer sheets as a repellant and it worked for me but not so much for Lisa. Thank goodness a tiny store in Cascade had repellant for sale by the can at 7 bucks a wop! Wished I had got some at Walmart for 4.50 instead of thinking "that is way too much for bug spray". I learned that you can't pay too much for bug spray when you really need it. ;-)
We found the best campground we have ever seen. It was at Lake Cascade, secluded, and right on the lake. Trees galore!
We brought a raft and some life jackets and paddled around a bit. I had all these plans for the many fish I was going to catch... Never happend. I fished and fished and only caught one!
The handy baby-pack was excellent. Trace loved it as we walked around.
Trace is quite the camper!
If you look closely, and I mean very closely you will see my tiny fish! I named her Sue.After a night of fishing with everything in my box with no luck, Lisa was telling me about something she had read in "The Work and the Glory" about Wilford Woodruff. He fished with hair and ended up catching more fish than anyone else.
Call it inspiration or sheer brilliance, I decided to try hair fishing for myself.
I looked up and on the tree saw a bunch of mossy hairlike stuff which looks like buffalo fur. So I thought "what the heck" and grabbed some and put it on the hook, tossed it out, and immedietly had a bite. This was the end result.
Since my fishing wasn't bringing in much, we went into McCall and visited the fish hatchery. There was a lot of fish! I wished I had brought my pole!
Trace wasn't much of a fan of his life jacket.
The last morning, I woke up and looked in the cooler to find that we had accidentally left the worm container open. oops!! They were everywhere crawling around in hopes to escape my hook.
I quickly cleaned it up and snapped some pictures before Lisa could see. ;)After this, we decided it was time to head home.
Trace and Lisa went swimming the other day (meanwhile I was slaving away at work).
Hooray for summer! Trace loves the water. He is sure to be a water rat like his parents.
So we have a huge box of blocks. I whipped em out the other day so Trace could play with them. Before we knew it we had built a tall tower that was too cool to just put away so it took its place as a centerpiece for a couple days.
For the 4th, our ward had a delicious and excellent pancake breakfast Saturday morning outside. It was tasty. For the fireworks we went to Sarah & Shawns for fireworks. We had a fun time!Trace started crawling a couple weeks ago. He is now crawling everywhere! He is getting bigger and bigger and is almost 11 months old! wow!
Meanwhile, Trace's little brother or sister continues to grow!! 14 weeks tomorrow!
