A Weekend Full of Excitement!

Can you guess what happened to poor Dina and why it took us 3 hours to get home instead of an hour and a half ?

(FYI - our 9yr old van is appropriately named after the loud, dinosaur-like noise that she makes.)

Calling for help. God truly blessed us by sending two ladies (with a small fender denter) to the same intersection we were stranded at. Since we did not have a cell phone and no way to contact anyone, dad was able to borrow one of the drivers phone and call the Eddys! 

Whats wrong?  

Uh Oh, not good! (notice the liquid and steam) 

Saturday Derby!

Saturday beamed bright and early (maybe a little too early for us late night firework watchers!) and the men folk headed down to the pond for a fishing derby! The contest was divided by age groups and the prizes went to the person with the longest fish!

Catch anything yet John? Besides Seaweed? Nope. 

The young fisher. Josiah did the best of all of us that day with catching a 15 inch carp!! Unfortunately he wasn't the only one catching big fish, because across the pond another young man, in Josiah's age category brought in a 20 inch Carp!  

Josiah's 'easy catch' 7 inch catfish. It turned out that he had actually hooked a broken double line that had this fish and a 9 inch carp on it! What a surprise!

Though I didn't get a picture of it, Shawn did caught a 9 inch catfish which turned out the be the largest fish in his age category! Hurray Shawn! Here Josh and Shawn look over his prize - a new light weight fishing rod.