Tuesday, April 23, 2013

fishin'

Last week some friends invited us to go fishing on Arrow lake with them.  I didn't tell the boys, but kept them ramped up by saying 'something awesome is going to happen tomorrow...'.  We got about 8 hours of really good behaviour out of them with that one.  They were PSYCHED when Todd came to pick us up with the boat on, and their two boys all camo-d up and vibrating in the back seat.

It wasn't just regular stand-on-the-shore-and-make-some-lame-casts kind of fishing.  It was fancy-20'-boat-with-electric-downriggers-rod-holders-barbeques-and-fish-finders kind of fishing.  Indeed, serious fishing.  Once set up we trolled around the lake, with me trying to keep an eye on the rods, but continuously upended by Todd who would shout "FISH ON!!!!" every now and then and jump up from steering to leap to the back of the boat to grab a rod.  Meanwhile I was left trying to figure out which of the four rods had the fish on.

It paid off though, here's Nick with his fish.  He didn't want to hold it.


Fish #2, very pleased.


I was the only one not dressed in camo.  Who knew camo was important even for fishing?


And one of the hens enjoying spring.


Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The youngest is not so young anymore...

Hey, you.


  Bling


All he really wanted was:


And a gymnastics party!  I'm not sure who had more fun, the kids or adults!


Bicycle cake


This morning on the way to school they just looked so sharp I had to take a photo.


April Highlights

 Nick helping get forks out for dinner.  Don`t worry the floor`s (sort of) clean.


 Grampa Allan on his new bike!


Coupla snugglers... cute eh!


Easter morning at the campground, guess who visited?


Ready to climb!  He was psyched!


All healed up from the skatepark catastrophe.


More pics, because he's just so cute


Family photo


Simmers turns 40!


Doing some drawing