Another Trip to Yuba Lake

Remember the Dodgeball Tournament that Chad was in??? Where the prize was a $100 gift certificate that had to be spent in Emery County (which not everyone lives in) so it was decided that they would buy fishing equipment with the prize money and then go on a fishing trip and have a little competition to see who could win the prizes??? Well, this past weekend was the big fishing competition and the rest of the family decided to tag along for some fun.

We left Friday afternoon and headed for Yuba State Park with the whole family including Dauber this time. We got there about 7:00 pm and ate a yummy dinner and then the guys decided to go late night fishing for catfish while the kids and moms watched a movie.

Saturday was full of fun adventures, such as:

• A bike ride where we saw a snake (already dead but this didn't phase Kenzie who picked it up), we saw a huge amount of swallow nests, we threw rocks off the bridge and saw the beautiful lake for the first time without ice on it.

• The younger kids played in the sand box while Dauber took a nap (who, by the way, was eshausted after playing and roaming around all morning with his friend Collie-our friend's dog).

• The girls found an old house that people who built the dam lived in and fixed it up as their little house. This required scavenging the hillside for treasures any spare minute they had. Some of the things they found were used as the door bell (an old garbage can lid), decorations (old bottles), buckets (used for mailbox and garbage), tire rim (used as a silly mirror). They were so excited about the finished product that they had me take a ton of pictures of it so they could always remember it.
  

• Went to the beach and played in the water which was still a little cold but the kids had to do it for a little while anyway.
  

• Played on the beach which included a sand fight, drawing pictures in the sand (Hayden drew several pictures of SpongeBob and Patrick Star) and sand castles.
  

• And last but not least Chad finally caught a Northern Pike the last 5 minutes they were fishing (about 8:00 pm) and it won him 2nd place. The prize for 2nd place was an electric fillet fishing knife, which he was excited about. First place went to Wayne due to the fact that his Pike had a fish still in its' belly (top 2 pictures on the right).