Ludington

The entire Eade clan headed to Ludington for the Gander Mountain Offshore Classic fishing tournament. Once again we proved that Team Pier Addiction is a force to be reckoned with! The "Lovely Lady Linerunners" (as Brian calls us!), fished the lady's tournament on Friday and had an absolutely perfect day (even though we were short a team member; you were missed Heidi)! Ethan brought us lots of good luck! He was such a trooper, we got him up just before 6am and we pulled lines around noon! We had to catch 3 Salmon and 2 trout in order to get all of the points possible, then it was up to the weight of the our catch to see where we placed. We had our limit by 9:30am!!! We were so excited b/c so many times you can catch a ton of salmon, but not the trout. We had 3 pretty nice king salmon's, a Lake trout and 2 steal heads, so we decided to keep fishing to try to get some even bigger salmon since were were allowed to sort our catch, but we could only weigh in 5 fish total! Our last fish was our biggest salmon and we were satisfied with our catch so we came in early. We ended up finishing in 6th place out of 60 boats!!!! We were so proud of ourselves! Last year we finished 9th, which was still in the $ and very respectable, so we were very proud to have improved at all this year!

The guys also had a great weekend. Saturday was a tough start especially after how well we did on Friday. The steel head weren't where they were on Friday and the guys were 31st at the end of the day on Sat. Sunday they had a complete comeback and ended up 13th over all!! What a huge improvement! They even won $ for being one of the most improved boats from Sat to Sunday! Our total winnings for the weekend was $1100! Way to go Team Pier Addiction!

Mom and Dad Eade rented a BEAUTIFUL condo for "the crew" for the weekend that was walking distance from the marina! It was soooooo nice! On Sat, Bonnie, Sara and I were just hanging out in the morning trying to plan our day when Ethan looked like he was about to let go of his toy and walk to the window! He didn't, but that prompted mom (Grandma Bonnie) and I to see if he's take a few steps between us (Derek and I have tried this a few times, but he wouldn't take any steps w/o holding on to one of us). He did take just a couple steps b/t us, but then would get to excited (probably b/c we were so excited!) Then when we left him alone, he just did it!!! I was so bummed that I didn't have my video camera with me, but then remember that my pocket camera has video, so I hoped you enjoyed seeing Ethan's 1st steps!!!!!