Lake Roosevelt Fishing Tournament

One of my favorite things that we do every year it to go up to the cabin for the fishing tournament and Grancy's birthday, which always are at the same time. We have been doing this for years and this year, N got to fish in the tournament for the first time. All of my relatives come up and fish and we hang out at night and have bonfires and play cards. My relatives have four different cabins in a row on this lake, which makes it very very fun!

Miss M and DH enjoying the Lake early in the morning

Playing on the pontoon

Another excellent part of the weekend was that JC and BC were able to join us for a day! They were coming to the cities to fly out to the Dominican Republic and came up to the cabin for awhile. So fun!

This weekend was N's very first time fishing! He caught three fish! Of all the fun things we did up there, if you ask him what his favorite thing was, he says "fishing." He would get so excited even when someone else would catch a fish and he would yell "I wanna touch it!" I think he touches every fish caught on our boat all weekend. My favorite though was when DH caught a Northern and he yelled "oh my gosh, you caught a shark!" N you make me laugh!

My big catch!

This is what N talked about the whole drive up North....driving the boat!

Hard to see on the picture, but there is the biggest grin on N's face here! We could hear him giggling as they took off around the lake! I also got to take him out on their waverunner, which he loved. He kept telling me to go faster and laughing really hard when I would whip us around. So much fun! I even got to water ski, which I haven't been able to do in years! I am usually pregnant or the boat is broken. :)

TH coming in on the waverunner. My favorite activity! I always say when I am rich, I will buy myself two of these and a trailer. Hope I am still young enough to drive them! :) Though maybe you are as young as you feel. On Monday, my mom, DH, and some others kayaked all the way across the lake(like 3.5 miles) and we met them in town for lunch. Then, my cousins and I did the return trip. Whew! That was a workout! When we got back, my 87 year old Great-aunt walked down to the lake and got in a kayak and tooled around along the shore. I hope that I can do things like that when I am her age! Way to go Aunt Dilly!

It was a wonderful weekend. Tons of fun activities, great times with my family. Can't wait until next year!

Also, a HUGE thank you to my family for being so wonderful with my kids! My cousin JN watched Miss M so N and I could fish and my other cousin AN took N on the four wheeler and pulled us behind the boat. My two cousins MH and TH are always so nice to my kids and play with them. You were all wonderful and I feel very lucky to have such a great family.

Love,

P