Wednesday, July 23, 2008

FLY FISHING!!!!

The young men and young women in our ward had an auction for a fund raiser and we bid on and won a fly fishing trip for four ,which included the fly's, poles, lessons, guided hike and food. We went to Eagle Meadows at an elevation of 6800 ft. Brian and Shirley Mollard were the experts. Here are Ally and Ashley setting up camp.
Jared just finished his lesson on how to cast and is awaiting the hike of 1.5 miles through the beautiful forest and granite rock mountains to the streams.(It was a hard hike, We had to stop a few times)
Ashley just finished catching a fish and is catching a rest at this time. If you know anything about fly fishing you need to separate on the stream or creek and you fish upstram so I wasn't close to get a picture of the trout. They were small because of the drought the water level was low.

We were camped at a horse camp where several people had trailers and brought horses for a beautiful ride through the mountains. Ally wanted to pet the horse in the camp ground next to us so Jared and Ally went to see Stormy.. On the hike Ally kept ahead of all of us and she would wonder off the path to do some rock climbing. It was so beautiful up in the mountains and great weather...75 degrees.
We all had a great time and want to go up to the mountains again. We enjoyed spending time together the most.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A GREAT 4th of JULY!!!

We were able to have 4 of our 5 children and their families come and spend a week with us and all the festivities for the fourth of July. We are greatful to live in this free land of many opportunities and beautiful country. We are blessed to live in a free nation. Most of all we are grateful to have freedoms that allow us to worship and live the gospel. We love all of our family and to those of you who could not be here we missed you and want you to know you were there in spirit.... so enjoy the photos.
Moaning Caverns 264 feet down to the bottom. Scary!!!

Spencer and Suzie on the edge!!!

Allyson, Suzie and Spencer on a carriage ride in Columbia.
Spencer and Suzie panning for gold in Columbia, CA
Spencer, Jon And Anjanette....cousins forever!!!!
Sarah and Mckay at the 3rd of July swim party at Aunt Karen's.
Taylor Ann and her second cousin Jacob on the farm at 4th of July

Monterey Bay Aquarium (Spencer, Suzy and baby girl??)

Spencer , Suzy and Grandpa in Monterey, Ca.