Ice Fishing

East Canyon State Park & Reservoir is a 680-acre boating and year-round fishing delight nestled in the mountains northeast of Salt Lake City on state routes 65 and 66. Recreationists will find a wide concrete launching ramp, paved parking area, modern rest rooms, showers, fish cleaning station and 31-unit campground with a large overflow area. Two spacious, covered pavilions with electricity are available for groups. A concessionaire provides boat rentals and a refreshment stand.

Ice fishing- is the activity of catching fish with lines and hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water.

Joke:
A guy decided to go ice fishing one winter's day. As he started drilling his hole a voice from above said "There are no fish under the ice!" Three times he started to drill and three times he heard the same words. Finally he looked toward the sky and asked "Is that you Lord?"

"No, stupid" came the reply, "I'm the hockey rink announcer.

Cassidy & Nicole
Our ice snowman:)
Greg caught a fish!! Yeah!!
Getting ready for the morning..

Nicole- Scooping her ice out of the hole.
Fishing Hole
Waiting and Waiting....
This was my first fishing hole!!
Drilling another hole Moving to a new spot.

Hardware Ranch

Hardware Ranch was purchased in 1945 by the State of Utah from the Box Elder Hardware Company. The ranch was purchased using sportsmans' dollars generated from the Wildlife Restoration Act. The original ranch covered 7,560 acres, but subsequent aquisitions expanded the ranch to about 19,000 acres. The state established the Hardware Ranch Wildlife Management Area as a location to operate a winter feeding program for Rocky Mountain Elk. Hardware Ranch provides habitat for many species of wildlife, promotes wildlife research and provides visitors with an up-close opportunity to learn about wildlife. Through a cooperative effort with a private concessionaire, Hardware Ranch offers horse-drawn sleigh rides to view wintering elk.

Riley, Teagen and Aftyn

on the sleigh ride

Tea eating some fresh snow.
This was the biggest elk on the ranch. Scoring about 320
Nicole and Cassidy

Bella and Bruce are the horses that took us for our sleigh ride.

Aftyn, Teagen and Railey loved the sleigh ride with the horses, and thought it was pretty cool to see the elk up close.

Aftyn

Aftyn playing in her baby's crib.

Whoa… Cole and Aftyn falling off the sled.

Cole and Aftyn gettting ready to go for a ride.

Aftyn's new snow outfit.

Aftyn-Calling Cinderella to see if she wanted to go with us to see the Elk...

Aftyn getting ready for bed, she likes to sleep with as many dolls as she can.

Devin's new "Mohawk" hair cut!! it lasted a few days....

Cowgirl Aftyn

Aftyn in my High heals

Reading Moms book.

Aftyn's new bedding and bed set up.

hmmm I love Chocolate!!!

Girls Night

Nicole, Teagen, Alicia, Hadlee, and Raylee came over to the house for girls night. We made pizza, played and made a Valentine.

Teagen's pizza is done...

"More cheese please"

"UMMM I love olives!"

Shooting Trap

Nicole trying out the new birthday gun.

PULL!!

Jim shooting out of his mouth....

Chad got a gun for his birthday!!

Up at the gun club, getting ready to shoot.