Our Summer Fun

 Well, Emma doesn't exactly consider it fun...

 But Kenadi and I do.  So does Mya.  There isn't much to do outside except for swim.  It is too hot for anything else.  

 We've been taking advantage of our friends' pools, and we swim about 3 times a week.  Kenadi is in swim lessons also, and now she is a pretty good swimmer!  She dives down to the bottom, jumps in the deep end and swims around!  I'm so glad that she loves to swim and does a good job, it helps me worry less at the pool.

 On Saturday night after we got all of our chores done, we took the family to our other friends pool.  It was nice to have Randy there to enjoy it with.

 When it's 105 outside, it feels soooo nice to jump into a big pool of water.  Ahhh....

 Here's Kenadi jumping and swimming in the deep end.

Here's a little glimpse of how chubby Mya is.  On Sunday when we were at church some cute little girls were holding her next to their mom.  They looked at her arms and one of them said, "Mom, how many elbows does she have?"  I laughed out loud right in the middle of our meeting.  I thought that was so funny.

 Another favorite is to jump on the tramp with the sprinkler under it.  The girls love it.

Only 2 more weeks until school starts here, and Kenadi will be starting kindergarten.  Wish us luck, I'm already weepy about it!

110?! and a Noodling Festival

This  crazy Oklahoma heat is getting to me... my garden is dying, my girls are swimming fools, and I am just getting to be one big freckle.  I do love the summer sun, but this is a bit much.  It has been sooo hot here!  Yesterday was 110, and the day before 108, it doesn't look like it's getting any cooler until November, so... our air conditioning had better not go out.  Maybe this hot weather has made us crazy, because we decided to get out in it and go to the Okie Noodling festival yesterday.  It has been on my to do list since I discovered this awesome sport.  I would not do it myself of course, but I am fascinated with the people who do... and the ones who hunt alligators, all of those crazy things.  

Noodling is fishing flathead catfish with your bare hands.  You go out into this muddy water, stick your hand in a hole, hope it's not a water moccasin, let the catfish bite your hand, and pull it up out of the hole and out of the water.  It is dangerous and hair-brained- but definitely entertaining.  

 Here are some that were caught for the competition yesterday.  These people fished all over Oklahoma and then had to be in to weigh their fish here by 7 pm.  This guy was a winner- I can't remember if he was a natural winner, or a scuba winner.  There are different categories for this competition.  They were: noodling with just bare hands, no scuba gear, this is the natural division, scuba division- pretty self explanatory, stringer- is their 3 fish all combined to see who's total was the heaviest, and there were youth and female divisions.

I'm not sure what divisions these guys were in, but one of them had a 60.5 lb fish, another a 65 I think.

 Where were these fans???!!!!!  I needed one of my own.

This lady one the biggest fish for the female division.  Her fish was 45 lbs.  Wow, what a lady.  Impressive.  Oh, and the girl next to her won "Princess Noodle" or whatever the title is.

 This kids' fish was as big as he was.

 Here are some catfish up close and personal.  Ugly things.  Taste good though.   Yum.

 Of course, noodling is the ultimate hick sport.  We got a few good pictures of people we saw.

 Some noodlers and me.  Nice guys.  Their fish is under that wood thing.

Here's the line-up of trucks with fish on the back of them trying to weigh-in.

 Here's little Mya- she was pretty good, despite the heat.  

Kenadi and Emma were infatuated with the big turtle there, the fish, and some crazy lady with her pet monkey in a diaper.  

So, it was fun, it was worth it, and now it's crossed off my list. 

Now, YOU need to watch the Okie Noodling documentary.  Click HERE to see it.  It's an adventure.