Fishing, Family, Football, and Field Trip

Joe's Whopper

That looks better

A real Whopper

Tim's really nice one

Joe & Tim with their catch

Joe Fighting a Paddlefish

Tim Fighting a Paddlefish

Joe and Tim went fishing for Paddlefish today. Paddlefish eat plankton, so you have to snag them with a hook and you can't keep any that are 35 to 45 inches long. Joe snagged 4 and Tim snagged 6, but they could only keep one each. They would fight for a little bit and then play dead, so they would have to drag them in. As you can see they had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again.

We went to the zoo and spent the day as a family. We road the train, William was so excited, excited beyond words. Then the train started moving, and he got scared. Now he is talking about the train again, but when we got off, I asked if he wanted to go again, and he gave me a resounding, No! We didn't stay all the long because it was cold. It is so fun to watch Matt walk around. He loves being able to walk around.


The boys finished up their first flag football season and they had a blast. They are already talking about playing next year.



Joe went on a Field Trip with Kyle's class to the pumpkin patch. They had so much fun and Kyle was so happy to have his Dad come with him on the field Trip.

Missing Tooth

Laffy Taffy with a tooth in it

Brad and his missing tooth

Brad's tooth was really loose, so I gave him some Laffy Taffy to help the tooth out. He took a bite down on the Laffy Taffy and when he opened up the tooth was stuck to the Laffy Taffy. Once he was finished rinsing his mouth he pulled the tooth out and happily ate the Laffy Taffy.

1st Snow

I was so excited to wake up and see the snow on Saturday. Joe said I was worse than a kid, probably because I woke him up at 6 to show him and then I couldn't stop talking about it. Luckily it didn't take the kids long to wake up and see the snow, and they shared my excitement with me. We had to make an emergency boot run for Kyle and William because their boots were too small. When we got home, there was 6 or so inches of snow on the ground. They played in the back for a bit and then decided it would be fun to go sledding. Matt was done with the snow at that point though. He kept face planting in the cold fluffy snow, and so he was done. Joe took the other three sledding. Afterwards they celebrated the sledding with hot chocolate.

I feel a little robbed out of my fall, my favorite season in the midwest. Usually they are beautiful. This year we went from summer to winter within a few weeks. Oh well the joy on my boys faces made it worth it. They had so much fun playing in the snow.