Stanley, yet again.

Well last weekend I went up to Stanley to hang out with my cousins on my mom's side, who I hadn't seen in a while. On Friday, I went fishing with Ho(Joe). He cracks me up, he's like, the male version of Noelle, but weirder. Then we played NERTS until 2AM. Saturday I went fishing with Ho and his wife Ellen. We went up the Yankee Fork of the Salmon. Ho's second cast he caught a 15 in. Bull Trout, which are illegal to keep, so we threw it back. The next cast he had a salmon on, which like, never happens. But sadly, it ripped the line. Ho was upset -

We had tons of bites but we just couldn't land many fish. It was frusterating.

I came back home on Saturday night, in case Noelle had her baby. Josie is still in Noelle's belly. Bug. I push on her stomach but she won't budge. Well hopefully this weekend.

Oh, LARP

Ok so, a week and a half ago we went to the big Pond family reunion in Stanley. It was really cool seeing all the cousins after so many years. What I found interesting was that I thought everyone was camping, yet, maybe only 1/3 of us actually camped. Interesting. And somehow, I ended up in my tent with 5 kids, with certain kids refusing to sleep next to others. Also interesting.

I don't have any pics, so, if you want to see some, go to Laura's Blog.

Now on with the LARPing. I went to my parents ward picnic tonight with Russ and Noelle. There were maybe 70+ people that showed up. Shortly after we arrived, another small group of 7 or 8 people arrived. Three of which proceeded to put on armor...uh, yeah, that's right, you heard me. armor. And this is when I learned about LARPing - Live Action Role Playing. Yes, they are actually sword fighting. Luckily, I had my phone with me - Yowza.

Lagoon, Fishing and Breaking Freaking Dawn

Last weekend after Steph's kids spent the week in Boise, I took them back home to Pokafello, then down to Lagoon. Laura and Ross, and Kirk and Danielle were there aswell, with their families. Steph's kids had never been to Lagoon, which is shocking since they live only an hour and a half away, and they liked it better than Disneyland. Anyway, it was HOT but fun - we were there for 11 hours. The kids loved Colossus and I forced them to go on Wicked which goes straight up, then 180 degrees straight down. Even Faith, Teagan and Bo went on it. Here are Chase, Mase and Cole in front of Colossus(now called Fire Dragon - and yes, these are the same pics Laura had on her page).

The kid version of 'Blast Off'.

This last Friday I was about ready to leave to go to the Middle Fork of the Salmon and Stanley to go fishing for the day and Russ decided he was so bored that he wanted to tag along. He lost 4 flies within the first 1/2 hr of fishing. But anyway, it was a really nice day and the fishing was alright. I did catch this snake though. Russ wouldn't get near it.
We went to Stanley and fished on Valley Creek. We found this dead 'fish' on the side of the creek...it looks like some prehistoric saltwater fish, what the hell is it? If anyone know, please tell me.
Russ was bugged that the fishing suddenly started to suck.

And I just have to mention this...I went to Costco on Saturday an hour after they opened, and more then 1/2 the books were gone. I'm about 300 pages in, and so far it's probably my favorite.