The Harris Family: Fish Lake 2012

About a month ago we went on a family trip to Fish Lake. I was so excited to go this year. I didn't make it there last year because Ryker was still a little too young, (only four months old). Jayson had taken Brody and had tons of fun, but I was so bummed I didn't get to see Brody in action. Brody talked about it for weeks afterward, and then when we told him we were going back, he couldn't wait! I think he asked us every day for three weeks if it was time to go to Fish Lake. He was so excited!

We left on Wednesday morning and came home on Friday afternoon. It was a quick trip, but long enough with a young toddler. I think that Ryker had just as much fun as Brody did. Our trip consisted mostly of fishing and hanging out in the cabin and eating junk food, of course. Ryker loved playing with his little cousins his age...both of which are girls. He doesn't seem to mind though. I think they both love him too. We tried to keep the babies mostly inside the cabin...Ryker's poor white head can't be in the sun too long. He went on one boat ride, but hated the life vest. If the boat was moving fast enough, he didn't care. His other favorite thing to do there was throw rocks and play in the dirt.

Brody also had fun playing with his cousins...they are his best friends. They had fun feeding the squirrels, running in the field by our cabins and being down by the lake fishing. We also had fun one night making a fire and roasting marshmallows, eating s'mores and playing with glow sticks. We had gotten Brody his very own fishing pole and for about a week before we went to Fish Lake he had been practicing casting it out himself in our backyard with the plastic fish it came with. He was doing great and once we were at the lake and had a hook on it, he was still doing fantastic all on his own. He was even catching and reeling in his own little perch. (Tiny fish). One of the last days we were there, it was just me, Jayson and Brody fishing on the shore. He had cast it out a few times and was doing great, but then disaster struck. As he went to cast it out and his hand was coming forward, he caught himself in the cheek, near his ear. At first, it looked really bad. The power bait that was on the hook was bright red and all over his cheek, so it looked like a lot more blood than there really was. He tried to rip it out of his cheek before we really knew what was going on. It really freaked us out and we thought we were going to have to take an hour long drive to the nearest hospital in Richfield. Once we got back to camp and cleaned it up we found out that it was just barely under the skin. Luckily, Jayson's dad had some wire cutters. We were able to cut the sharp part of the hook off and slide it out from under his skin. We got it all disinfected and cleaned up and he didn't even need a band-aid on it!

He was so brave the whole time! He only cried right at first when he realized he had a hook in his face, but he didn't cry once while we were trying to figure out how to get it out. He was even more brave than I was being. I'm so thankful that it wasn't as bad as it could have been. It really could have been a lot worse. The next day, you had to be right next to his face to even notice where it had been. I think he had fun telling people the story of what happened though. Unfortunately, he didn't want to fish the rest of the trip, but I think he'll be up for it next year.

We were sad to leave once the time came, but now we have next year to look forward to! We all love fish lake so much and hope to have many more years of memories there!