Fish Stories

Friday, Chad and I went deep sea fishing with his company.
I caught a big fish.
(Actually that guy in the foreground hooked it and hollered at me,"Come take this!" So I threw the sardine I was clutching back into the live-well, ditched my pole, and grabbed his. Reeling it in took ALL I had. They kept telling me, "Keep the end of your pole UP!" I just wanted to say, "But I'm a GIRL! And that has got to be a walrus on the end of this line because it's not budging!" It finally budged all the way to the boat, they gaffed it and threw it on deck. I posed, with quivering arms, for a picture, and secretly hoped that would be the last fish I would catch that day. Surely they don't come any smaller than that, and I would have to wuss-out if it were any bigger.

This is the entire boat's take for the day. Mine is the smallest.

We saw schools and schools of dolphin.

And one seal, one flying fish, and two jelly fish.

Wanna hear a funny story?

Chad usually has such mastery of the English language,

That his flub-ups are memorable.

This fishing trip reminded me of a similar trip he took a few years ago.

On these trips, you either catch yellow fin tuna(like the one I caught),

blue fin tuna, or albacore(the BIG ones).

Chad had had more luck that year and had caught multiple albacore.

He was telling me about it as I was frying up some of his catch the next day. "Boy, it sure was fun realing in those albatross," he said.

I looked at him.

"Honey.

Tell me you know what an albatross is."

"Oh," he said, realizing he'd made a mistake, "it's a prison."

You're Never Fully Dressed without a...

...Smile! I took the older girls to see Annie at Tuacahn last weekend. (Chad was away mountain biking with the Young Men.) That place is so beautiful. We had to have a photo shoot before the play began.

This is the backdrop of the theater. That black car is poised to drive across the back of the stage and pick Annie up from the orphanage. We weren't allowed to take photos once we went in to be seated, so this is from the side. You can still tell that it's NEAT-O!

In the fountain.

One of the side washes. And two cute girls!

Ah, Summertime

I finally just bought cushions for the porch swing, as the safety-pinned blanket just was NOT working out. The pillows were a success though. It has been the girls' favorite place to hang out and read in the mornings when it's cool. It's 105 now. Lily's boxing the wii, and Lexi's in her room.

I was doing my hair one Sunday morning and I put Sagie in the sink so she would be occupied while I was busy. She turned on the water to play in it. The water ran harmlessly between her feet and down the drain. She looked so sweet that I got out my camera and took lots of pictures.

I finished and lifted her out of the sink. She had stepped on the stopper, and was sitting in a fairly full sink of water. Soggy-bottom girl!