New Zealand's Best Sturgeon Fisherman

While I went to spend the day with Kerri and the boys, Sam took off at 4AM with my dad to go Sturgeon fishing. Really, 4AM? Sam hates mornings, so I wondered how this would go...but as you can see he LOVED his time!

This is the second fish he caught!






The first fish he caught was 73 inches and over 100 pounds! It was too big to keep, they had to throw it back! He said the 100 pounder was like wrestling a gator to get it in the boat...that made me smile to picture, Uncle Neville would be proud. If this was an initiation by my dad (which it wasn't....my dad loves hanging out with Sam) I think he PASSED with FLYING COLORS. What more could my dad want for his girl than a guy that can catch a HUGE sturgeon. Those are the important things to my dad :)

(For a little perspective...the boat is 80 inches wide so the fish almost fills the boat!)




(Sam wrestling the "gator")

I got a call in the afternoon from my man, and if you can hear a smile I heard one! I think that when I saw my dad and Sam that night they had smiled for hours at their great catches!

So while they were doing guy things I went to Lincoln to visit one of my best friends, Kerri! It was such a good day, we talked, and talked, and talked, and talked some more....and it was Micah's Playgroup Birthday party, so I jumped into that and then just hung out with boys. Jacob was VERY excited to show me his wore his RPM New Zealand shirt I had sent him last year when I lived in NZ. He was most excited to show me the flag on the sleeve!









There is just nothing like and old friend that knows you well and seen you in SO many seasons of life. The last week I have got to see all those old friends and it just does something to you to know you don't have to explain yourself, and you can relax and be fully you. I didn't get to see Stacie yet, but I did get to have a couple heart to hearts with her on the phone and even that was so refreshing. Funny how for me in an unpredictable, not stable season that seeing stable friends is all I need. I guess at the end of the day no circumstance can really give you stability or security or take it away. I like to think that....but I think in my heart deep down I know that circumstances never can fully make you feel settled or stable if you really aren't in your heart. While I was in Redding I realized that my adventurous life, that seems to not be heading towards a routine as fast as like, might not be over any time soon. So I decided, instead of waiting for the things I think will give me routine and help me feel settled, I would just embrace where I was at. I am living a life I never dreamed of living, and yeah, I don't have a place to call my own and haven't had a bed for quite some time...(though, thank you Danielle and Elli for giving me your beds!), I am getting to live this life that most people would never get to live. And beyond that I am living a kind of life I hoped I lived. I want perfection but really, do I? If I had my life perfect like I think I do there would be NO GREAT STORIES like I seem to have each week...

Life is what it is and I can choose to enjoy what is in front of me and take everything I can out of each moment or miss it and wondered at 60 why I never fully lived my life because I was wanting something else the whole time.