Monday, August 24, 2009

'09 McFarland Red Fish Lake Trip

2009 marked the 12th year since Jon and I started going to Red Fish Lake! We have made the trip nearly every summer and we love it more with each visit. And yes, the fish stories do seem to get bigger every year!

Here we are upon our arrival at Red Fish Lake. We spent a week in the beautiful Idaho Sawtooth Mountain Range. We swam, we fished, we played, we camped and we loved every minute of it!

Note to readers: I've posted an enormous amount of photos as my photo scrapbook of memories for publishing later. I won't feel bad if you don't make it to the end...

Carson's ready to get the party started. "Big Time" as he would say.
Erik, Kaycee and our beautiful grandson Jayden joined us for the third time this year for the first few days. We love spending time with them and cherish these memories. Since we don't live close to them, we never grow tired of hearing Jayden call us Grandma and Grandpa. It melts our hearts! Thank you Kaycee and Erik for spending your vacation time with our family. We love you!!!

Our first day on the beach started out quite chilly, but we all warmed up and got into the spirit of the lake.


It wasn't long before Jon had us all fishing.


The little lake squaw fish were small, but we caught them with nearly every cast.

Carson and Big Brother Erik

This was Eden's first fish!

Grandpa helps Jayden with his first "grandpa" fish!

Jayden and Eden put all the fish along with the minnows that Quinton netted into a bucket to play with before releasing them. The bucket fish were a big hit!

Eden liked to release (or dump) the fish in the bucket before Jayden was through playing with them. She was kind of bossy!

Eden caught lots of fish on her Scooby Doo pole!

Jayden's pole was also darling and he loved it!

Carson catches a mid-sized fish!

Nice fish Erik! Your dad is so proud!

The McFarland's have to start developing the fishing gene early.


HOLY SMOKES it was cold in the lake that day! But our boys jumped in and as is the tradition swam out to touch the boats anchored in the lake. Brrrrr....

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