Fishing ... Rain ... Picnic ... Fun ...

August 31, 2014

The children were excited to go fishing and have a picnic ...

James was thrilled that he caught the first fish ...

Ella is the Queen of Bonking the fish ...

they all took turns reeling them in the boat ...

We caught a lot of little ones that we had to release back into the lake ...

the larger fish were sparse ... as they are getting ready to spawn ...

Since it was a slow day fishing ...

the kids decided to go for a swim ...

jumping off the back of the boat ... floating and swimming around with grandpa close by ...

Well ... it was a good thing we went out early this morning ... 

to go fishing and for the kids to go for a swim ...

the weather turned ugly ... a storm blew in ... 

we scurried to put up the sides of the canopy to protect us from the rain ...

the boys helped Grandpa with steering the boat ...

back to the boat launch ...

it had stopped raining by the time we got there ...

We decided to have our picnic lunch at Surveyors Beach ...

the kids were able to go swimming and play in the sand ...

James and Grandpa took the fishing rods ...

 to catch Bass ... as they walked around the lake ...

Craig and Ella didn't want to go ...

so we played a few games in the sand ...

X's and O's and Hangman ...

It was a fun day ... !!!