4th of July

We had a long weekend and today, the 4th we celebrated by running! I ran a race in Arcata at the Marsh. It was my first trail run which I didn't know it was a trail run. It was a 5K race and I posted my personal record 32:04. Guess all my training has worked!

Im in the blue shirt in the middle..thanks 6 rivers running club
In front seeing if my ipod was going to work

Coming up to the finish line but the girls and Scott are right next to the photographer thats why I am smiling

Baby Austin Jones. So cute! I am very thankful that I got to go see him and his mommy and daddy! What a great family! Love ya guys. Sorry I couldn't rotate the picture

Large small mouthbass. It was 15 inches long and 3 pounds. It was good to eat too! Scott and I headed to Oregon on Friday for fishing on the Umpqua. 3 years ago we did this trip with Phill and Sandy and caught 50 fish. Our expectations were that big but lucky for us the fishing was great. We caught about 50 fish and I caught about 30 of them. This was the biggest fish of the day. Most of them were small but still fun to caught. Best part was we caught them on artifical worms.

Good size smallmouth

View of the river...see the white water...we went through that in our kayak. We had gotten out earlier because Scott didn't want to go through any rapids...where we got out was horrible...tons of nats and it was gross so this time there was no going around it and so we tackled the beast. I hadn't paddled all day but Scott told me I was going to have to this time. As we are going he must have not thought I was paddling enough and so I started yelling I am paddling and the nex thing I know a 4 foot wave crashes into me and we have taken in tons of water. It was awesome but scary. Scott didn't want to take any more chances with white water so we walked on the side of river. Scott tied up the kayak with rope and dragged the kayak but not everything was tied down and we lost one of our gear bags which had our camera. Luckily I caught up to the bag and got the memory card out so we got that but our camera is shot. The only thing is that we took some cool videos and can't get them off the card. So we are going to get a new camera now probably waterproof.

Good size, only picture I took of Scott

We really like this picture. Fog in the hills and cold on the water. Sunny didn't come out until late morning. I was freezing and still got sun burned! After our 9 hour trip on the Umpqua we still had to get back to our truck. We took a bike and left it at the pull out point but Scott hitched hiked and got a drive down to the truck. We were finally on the road at 5 so we got into Red Bluff at 10:30. It was a long drive but we had a good meal in yreka. We got up at 4:45 and headed to Ruth Lake. Fishing was slow but Scott was all over it. He caught like 30 fish at Ruth. He caught a huge large mouth bass, huge...about 17.5 inches and 3-4 pounds. But guess what we didn't have a camera to get the picture. His largest bass and we didn't get it! I sucked at setting the hook so I didn't get much but the weather was great and we had a lot of fun. We are going back to Ruth in one week so it will be fun!