The mother load!

Went to Bluewater Lake in search of Musky's. Got the right gear, got the right poles, and got our game faces on! We caught 6 in total! These fish are huge and soooo much fun to catch. They look a lot like a pike. The rules to the game. Catch and release only UNLESS the fish is bigger than 40 inches. We caught Musky's between 25-28 inches so we threw them back. We loved it so much that we are going back again tomorrow. Our goal: to catch one that we can keep!

All the pics are taken with the different fish we caught ourselves.

 The first fish that was caught by Ty. As he was reeling it in I realized that I had one as well. Mine turned out to be a crawfish:)

 The picture isn't the best but if you look real close you can see some wild horses. There are a couple up here at Bluewater

Ty's new look

After our trip, I asked Ty if I could do his haircut. . . he said yes. Dear world here is Ty's new look!

Utah Vacation

At the end of July Ty and I made our way up to Utah to vacation with the Smith family up in Midway and to see my family also. It was such a fun time! My dad picked us up from the airport and we made our way to Kennecott Copper Mine. I went to it when I was a little kid for a school field trip and I don't remember a thing. Ty has never been and thought it would be fun to go see. 

On our drive up to the mine.

 Dad, Ty, and I liked looking over the edge and watching the big machinery driving around. We thought the little white truck in the picture below was crazy how small it was compared to the others. A little bit later we realized that it wasn't a truck but a semi truck! Man the mine trucks are HUGE!

 Of course we had to get the classic picture while here:)

 Tuesday we went on a little hike with my family up Battle Creek canyon. You can see Evan Rude, Ty, and dad leading the way.

 Addie, mom, Brynlee behind mom, and Ickles in the far right. Ty and I then visited some friends in SL valley. Then that night for Pioneer Day we went with my family to Lynn and DeAnn's house for a BBQ. It was good to spend time with family.

The next day we headed out with Ty's family for the Smith family vacation to Midway. I absolutely love Midway, what a beautiful area!!!! Here is the place where we all stayed. It was a gorgeous house!

 The view from the back of the house after you climbed a hill. You can see a little bit of Deer Creek in the background.

 Another view. . .

Most of Ty's nieces in their matching dresses

The next day we went to Deer Creek to play in the water. Ty and I did a little bit of fishing and caught this guy.

Here is the Smith's stakeout on the beach. We had sea doos we were taking turns on, lots of fun!

 Stopped at a cheese/milk place on our way back from the Lake. Aggie ice cream for all!!! Thanks Sue and Skipper:)

The next day we went to Park City and the Olympic park to do some fun rides.

 I have heard of people going up to the olympic park to just watch the athletes train. . . Can I say fun! In the picture below you can see a ski jumper in the air doing flips.

 The family watching the athletes jump.

 On our way to go do the slide and the zip lines we watched some long jumpers coming down the hill.

 Here's the crew for the Alpine Slide.

 The zip line was a little too much for me. . . let's be honest I just survived the tram ride up to the top:) Ty came down the zip line with the skipper.

 Ty's in the white and the Skipper in orange.

 One of the rules to the house was to take off your shoes when you came in:)

 As we were waiting in the Salt Lake Airport to board our plane Saturday, they came on speaker saying that our flight was overbooked and they were offering $400 voucher for those who were willing to stay longer and take the flight out the next morning. Ty and I were all over that. In the end we have a total of $800 vouchers for our next flights, a free hotel room, and free meals. We stayed in downtown SLC in a very nice hotel room. We had dinner and then walked around SL. We were just two blocks from the Gateway, Temple Square, and the new City Creek mall.

 On our walk back from City Creek we stopped and got us some cheese cake, YUMMY!

The next morning our ride picked us up and we were off once again for ABQ. Got home around noon and even made a Sacrament meeting. Our trip was loads of fun! We love visiting with our families and our friends:)

The BIG one

Ty took the title home yesterday from our fishing trip from Cochiti Lake. We were having a slow morning and we are pretty sure that the green moss everywhere was not helping at all. Anywho Ty announced to Steve, a friend and co-worker, and I that he had a fish. Man did this fish put up a fight!!! Ty figures it took about 5 minutes to finally get him netted. At one point we had to steer the boat the direction the fish was going so that the line wouldn't break. 25inches and 8 pounds carp. Took pictures then threw him back, not worth eating. Ty said that he felt 'dirty' even holding it:) 

Way to catch the BIG one love!!!!

Here they are measuring the beast.

 Sorry so fuzzy. . but I pinky swear it's 8lbs.

Letting the fish get a breather, so we could take more pics.

Apricots?

So. . . . I have been way excited for the apricots to come in this year. It's been fun watching the blossoms come and seeing the billion of apricots start to grow. I've been pumping myself up to make apricot jam, you know the really REALLY yummy stuff. I have picked 3 grocery sacks full trying to get the apricots more big and better. The poor tree has really been falling over with all the fruit. Bring on the jam!!! Getting giddy really. 

Then something happened. My apricots started to turn a different color than what I thought they should. I thought that maybe they got a weird bug or was dying from the heat. . . . Then I talked to my mother. Come to find out my apricots are baby peaches!!!!!!! What?!?!?! This is sending my brain into confusion. It's like when I was on my mission and my brother Logan and his wife Jenn sent me the video of the gender of their first born. I saw a 'B' up in the corner of the video and then it stopped. I thought they were having a baby boy. Then a while later they told me that their baby was a girl? Can I tell you it was weird seeing a baby girl instead of a boy when I came home. Took a while to adjust. Anywho. . . . . So I am proud to show you my peaches growing in the backyard:)

Here is the poor tree. . . it has lots of fruit on it. When the wind and rain comes through I get a little nervous for this guy. One branch has already broken. That's when I went out and weeded some apricots, oh I mean peaches, out.

As you can see from this picture I may need to go out with grocery sacks and pull more peaches off. 

This reminds me of 'James and the Giant Peach'. Bring on all the Peaches, BOOYA!

ABQ Temple

Ty and I were able to go to the Albuquerque Temple with some friends, the Torgensens. It was good to go and do some family names. I like doing family names at the temple, makes it a little more special AND gives brownie points for when we go to the other side:). It's a smaller temple and it's very beautiful outside and inside.

We should have had our friends take our picture. . . oh well. Ty's car does a fantastic job of holding our camera:)

 

Good day of fishing!

Yesterday Ty and I went to Cochiti Lake for fishing. Ty had just caught a fish and was measuring it when I caught a fish too. It felt big and was giving a good fight. Ty came over to help and brought the net. That's when we first saw that I had landed another Pike! We were both afraid that the beast was going to get away because I didn't have any steel wiring on my line and it's teeth could have cut it. After a little bit of fighting Ty was able to net it and bring it in. It is 30 inches and weighs 7 pounds! Man these fish are nasty!

Ty, as you can see, is not scared to hold it by the gills. The Pike was so big and still had some fight in him so I went for the great big hook instead. I didn't want him flopping around while holding him:)

Ty's sister McCall and her kiddos came that night while on their way up to Utah. So we naturally showed them the fish we caught that day. Ty caught 2 Large Mouths and a White Bass:)