Ice Fishing

This weekend myself and a couple buddies went and did the ultimate winter sport...Ice fishing. This is my third attempt at ice fishing and the last two time resulted in no catch. Ice fishing gets a little difficult when you can't feel your hands or feet and you aren't catching fish :-) This time we went to a lake that took us 3 hours to get to, but resulted in a rewarding ice fishing experience. Between the 5 of us we each caught nearly 40 fish in the day and a half we were there. Not too shabby. We nearly got stuck in a snow storm that dumped about a foot of snow on us overnight while we were up there. The park rangers told us they expected about 1 inch of snow....apparently they use different rulers than we do. It was a great time though. It's pretty sweet have a fish come flying out of a little 6 inch round hole in the ice. Things started out a little slow, but then once we started hooking them up they were flying out of the ice all over the place. It was a great time. Come visit us in Colorado sometime and maybe we can plan a trip out on the ice :-)

The early morning after the storm the skies were clear and it was beautiful.

Check out some of these other pictures from the trip...

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Christmas in California...

not exactly a white Christmas :-) We got to go visit family in CA for Christmas this year and had a really nice time. It was a nice get away. We went and checked out Universal Studios the first day we got there..and of course made a required stop at the must-have In-n-out Burger. It was nice to have a day when the two of us could just hang out. We caught with a couple of our college roomates for dinner at Tony Romas. It was nice to catch up with them.


A highlight of the trip was going to a dedication service with our cousins and our new God-child. We are honored to have been asked to be God-parents for our cousins daughter. It was nice getting to see a lot of family that we hadn't seen for maybe a year or so on this trip...especially our Texas cousins.

We headed up to the banksons in the desert and spent the week up there. It was a really nice time checking out Christmas lights (the most amazing display we've ever seen down in Rancho Cucamonga), playing Wii sports, flying those little remote control helocopters (they are REALLY hard to control, but a lot of fun) and spending time with the whole family. The only unforunate thing was that we did miss the white christmas (actually snowing on christmas day) in denver that only happens about once every 13 years. Oh well...guess that means we need to stick around for a while for the next one.

We had a great time seeing our grandparents and all our aunts, uncles and cousins.

We also got to meet the newest addition to the family....Pearl. She has brought little doggy excitement to K & M's house. She was a lot of fun and liked to play with Molly (our 13 year old cocker spaniel) and about drove her nuts. That's alright though, Molly is pretty spoiled and needed somebody to give her some trouble.

Overall it was great trip and hopefully we can do it again soon. Maybe next year everyone should make a trip to CO...we think that's a good idea ;-)

(In case you are wondering why there aren't many names in the blog postings it is because this is all public and we want to be careful about announcing TOO much info :-) )

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