Something Fishy

I ran across this pic today and realized that I never blogged about Jeff's supper sucessful salmon fishing trip and our not so successful smoking of the salmon. Jeff caught all of these fish as you can see but it's a certain kind of salmon that is better smoked. So he being who he is (which is why I love him) looked online and found a way to make a homemade smoker to smoke your salmon in. We got all of the supplies and made the smoker. It was only supposed to take a few hours to smoke the fish however I think we overloaded it and by about 3am the salmon still wasn't done. We brought it all in to finish it in the oven but it was stuck to the rack. So the night ended with us sneaking all of this half smoked salmon to the park dumpster across the street and crawling into bed smelling of smoky salmon because at that point we just didn't care. But it's a great picture and a funny story.

New Car

Well after almost 8 years of marriage we decided it was finally time to get another car. Jeff and I both work and we still carpool but Jeff works with the scouts and I work with the Young Women in my church and was just called as the Ward Young Women Camp Director. So we are both going in two different directions. Jeff is actually going on a 50 mile canoe trip this summer (the same week that I'm taking my girls to camp). He took his guys on a 50 mile hike last summer so the canoe trip should be pretty easy. Anyways this is a Toyota Land Cruiser and we love it. It can hold 8 people although the third row is really for short people and kids cause there's not a lot of leg room. But its perfect for hauling camping stuff and pretty much anything else. And now I finally have a vehicle when Jeff takes his kids camping which is generally once a month.

Tip Toe Through the Tulips

I know that you can only see the back of my head in this one but really how many pictures do you need of me smiling in front of a field of tulips. Plus I thought it was a pretty cool pic.





Ok so it took me a while to post this, not really sure why. Jeff and I went up to the Skagit Valley tulip fields in April, I had never been before and was really excited to go. I would recommend for anyone interested to not go on a Saturday, it was really busy. We got some great pictures though and I promise that Jeff was there, he just didn't want any pictures taken I guess standing in a field of tulips for a pic is more of a girl thing.