Smith Family: Breakin' Out the Boat

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Breakin' Out the Boat

Our poor boat. Sitting there, neglected in the garage. It was time to take her out for a spin.

The lake we chose is about 25 minutes from our house, it's called Island Lake Reservoir. Reservoir? Really? Did they need another lake in Minnesota? Anyways, I had driven by it when I took Caden to scout camp and found a free boat launch, so we thought we'd try it out.

When we arrived on Saturday, we found a few hundred people -- mostly kids -- fishing, swimming and playing volleyball near the boat launch. They looked at us curiously, as if they had never seen a boat before, I thought it was a bit odd. I don't know if it was because of the weather or what, but we had the lake practically to ourselves, other than a few fishermen.

Our depth finder soon revealed some uncomfortable readings. One second it would read 20 feet, and the next it would jump to 40... or 30 and then 6...a little scary for a lake we hadn't travelled before. Apparently not all of the islands are above water.

We decided to join the locals and try our hand at fishing. We didn't catch anything (we found out later that we were trying for the wrong kind of fish) but had a relaxing afternoon with the kids and dog.

The water was 60 degrees, the air was 63, but the girls weren't afraid... Sierra pulled out the kneeboard and Solei revived the wakeboard, while the rest of us were content to stay warm in the boat and watch. The sunset was beautiful.

It's great to be back in business.

And here are some videos....

5 comments:

Dan, Pam and Family said...: Looks Breath-takingly pretty.
What a fun day!
Love the videos as always.
Pam; June 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Grapefruit said...: Looks so pretty. I have so many good boating memories with you, at Lake Shasta, with lots of chips and Grape and Orange Crush. Remember those days????; June 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Me, Myself and I said...: WOW!! Can't believe you guys were out on a lake when it's that COLD! You must have REALLY been missin' the water!! Looks like tons of family fun!!!; June 16, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Liz said...: I learned how to waterski at Whiskey Town, with your dad driving, I'm pretty sure. Because my dad was in the water, and my teeth were chattering like they might just jump out of my mouth! What a great memory! I loved the feeling of saying "HIT IT!" and then jumping up out of the water!; June 17, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Liz said...: P.S. You are such a "whatever the weather" trooper! I applaud you!; June 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM

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The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Breakin' Out the Boat

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