Fishing at the Docks

Our first adventure in fishing started at the boat docks in town. We would eventually branch out to the rivers, oceans, and lakes, but it all started at the docks. It was interesting to fish at the docks because of the variety of strange and unusual fish that we caught. None of them were very big, but they were all a little strange (at least compared to what we were used to catching). Once while I was working Kristen took the kids to fish at the dock. Caleb caught some long, eel-looking type thing, and nobody dared to touch it to get it off the hook. They finally had to ask some man that was cleaning his fish at the cleaning station to help them. Apart from that incidence, they all did pretty good at baiting their own hooks, and taking off the fish that they caught.

We caught lots of flounder fish

Patiently waiting!

Here's the long, strange fish that Caleb caught

The rewards of patience

Kaden caught a fish and hooked it in the eye. When he tried to pull the hook out, the eye came out with it. Yes, this is the fish's eye on his hook. Gross!

Mom and baby hanging around with us

Manicures & Pedicures

What do girls do when they are sitting around with nothing to do? Well, they do their nails, of course! So Mom & Katelyn decided to give themselves a manicure and pedicure. But they didn't want anyone to feel left out, so they decided to let Kylie and the boys join in on their little party. Fortunately, Dad was working when this took place, or he probably would have been forced to do it as well!

Kylie's first pedicure and manicure

What a nice big brother Caleb is, to let his sister paint his toes.

I'm not sure whose feet these are--maybe someone who's trying to stay anonymous!

Town Salmon Bake

One night the town put on its annual "salmon bake" dinner at the county fairgrounds. The entire town was invited, and all the local fisherman donated some of their catch from the week's fishing. Donations were suggested (which went to benefit the town), and a yummy dinner was enjoyed. A live band played great music, and the rest of us sat around and enjoyed a fun night hangin' out with the community.

Waiting in the long line to get our food

The band playing through the smoke of the bbq