One fish, two fish, four fish, five fish!

This morning, we all went fishing in the lake behind Oma and Papa's house. Uncle Steve brought fishing poles, and bought worms from the bait shop at Sedgwick County Park. In two hours, Jake caught five fish, Adam caught four and Zach caught two. Even Matthew "caught" a fish and was very excited about it, although none of the boys wanted to touch the flippy fish.

I think everyone "caught" a tree while casting, and several times the fish outsmarted us by eating the worm off the hook. Finally, cousin Ryan, an avid fisherman informed us we had too much worm on the hook. After he gave us a lesson, we caught all kinds of fish! These pictures were all taken by Katie. Seventeen people were coming to our house for dinner. In attendance: Clayton and Phyllis, Grandma, Hatteberg's, Hilger's, Carole, Ryan and Marisa, and the four of us.

We had dueling grills on the deck: one filled with turf, one filled with surf. Scott grilled chicken, steak and hot dogs. Cousin Ryan grilled salmon. After dinner, the storm was so entertaining that we decided to watch from the garage. There was lots of lightning and thunder, but once it started raining, and became very windy, you would have thought this was our first Kansas storm. We watched as the neighbors shingles blew off their roof, and squealed as the overhead attic door was pushed out by the wind. Adam was very concerned and "reminded" us not to forget to shut the garage door when we came in. Once all of us were safely inside he checked all the doors to make sure they were locked, and watched warily from his room as I opened the front door to see the storm. It stormed most of the night. Needlessly to say, Zach ended up in our room.