Yellow Pine 2009 (10-11 July)

At this years annual Colton Family reunion camping trip to Yellow Pine Jordan ran into a problem... He lost his leg in a freak hiking accident!

While Anne contemplated the grave situation I got to work fixing up a workable replacement for Jordan.

As you can see he was very pleased with the results. Some even said they could hardly tell the difference.

I received a standing ovation for my efforts! Luckly for Jordan the doctors were able to reattach his real leg later on and he has since regained full use of it; I don't even think he has any scars... The miracles of modern medcine never cease to amaze me!

Sofia was just tickled pink at the good news.

We all had a great time playing at the rivers edge. It was a beautiful sunny day.

Laura and I got to be the cooks for dinner that night... (Jordan would have helped but he did have a pretty good excuse after all)

We made a Dutch Oven Seafood Jambalaya. It has just about "every good thing" in it from shrimp to sausage and scalops to bacon. It is really good!

After dinner we all rosted marshmellows and had smores... Nathan just made sure his mouth was never empty of marshmellows and chocolate!

The following day Jordan stayed at camp with mom and the kids so Laura, Anne, Dad, and I could go catch some supper from the river.

Dad took us on a several mile hike to a perfect fishing hole where we caught some large trout. There was this one tiny fish that just wouldn't leave the hook alone! After reeling him in for the third time rather than just tossing him back in the river I hucked him as far as I could down steam so he couldn't get back to our hole... bothersome fish!

As we made our way back, fishing as we went there was a great spot just before we got back to the lake. We caught the rest of our limit there... we would have some good eats tonight!