Ice Fishing

Vinny and my dad took the boys ice fishing last week.  They went to Monument Lake and the ice was over 8 inches thick.  They didn't have much luck, only 2 little Perch, but they did have fun and the weather was beautiful.

A few more pics from December

My dad's birthday!

The big 6-0!!

Me and my baby at Devin's winter band concert!

Devin is the cool kid in the back playing the big drum!

Colorado Fall

Colorado weather is CRAZY, you can't always count on winter in actual Winter, and whatnot, but you can at least always count on the leaves falling in Fall!  We had a super mild Fall (if you haven't been able to tell by the lack of jackets on Halloween and the fact all the kids are wearing shorts and t-shirts in the pics below).  Grampa worked hard to make this gigantic pile of leaves for his grand kids to play in!!!  Such a good Grampa!!  They seriously played for hours...jumping and playing and then making a leaf house!

ICE FISHING!!!

On President's Day we journeyed up to a remote lake up in the mountains to go ice fishing! Everyone was so excited to try this out! Tucker used some of his birthday money and got a 'real' ice fishing pole. Trey talked a big game about getting on the ice, but once we got there he wouldn't go on...can you see him sitting on his chair, right at the edge of the ice...The majority of our crew is by the green tent, mom and Kim tried to talk him into coming, but he said no, so they left him there (I was at the car because Ty was sleeping...and Ty is not a child you want to wake up from a nap unless absolutely necessary).
Mr. Gerald making the whole...it was awesome, the ice was almost 2 feet thick!Nana Joyce had a talk with Trey and he came out with her on the ice and once he was out there he was having a blast..His favorite thing to do was to make sure the wholes didn't freeze back over by scooping ice out.All of the kids, except for Tucker, got bored with the fishing pretty fast..we anticipated this and brought sleds along with us, but despite the weatherman predicting a snow storm the night before our fishing trip which caused us to delay leaving by a few hours, there was hardly any new snow on the ground!! Instead Gramma started giving the kids rides around the frozen lake.And when she got tired Ms. Kim took a turn.And when she got tired Bella gave rides (I did not give rides because I was stuck carrying Ty around because he would go from loving being on the ice to hating it and he wasn't too found of the sled rides either...so I was exhausted from carrying his heavy butt everywhere)My dedicated little fisherman! You make your daddy proud Tucker! Poor guy didn't catch a fish, but he never gave up.Well, maybe the reason Ty wanted me to carry him is because it's hard to walk with 2 layers plus a snow suit and snow jacket and snow boots!Devin really wanted to go sledding, so we found the hill that had the most snow on it and he gave it a try!This last one is just one of the ice and part of the lake...it looked way cooler in person..
We ended up only catching 2 little rainbow trout...I somehow managed to not get a picture of them...But it was a lot of fun..it was cold, but not unbearable. We were all so worried about Ty stepping into one of the wholes, which he didn't, but Tucker was trying to kick ice into one and managed to step into one all the way to mid-shin, but it was right before we were leaving and because he had on snow pants, and snow boats, he was only a little wet. The big boys are still asking when we can go again...I had fun, but I think next time I will let Grampa and his big boys have an adventure of their own!

Last bit of December

My dad celebrated a birthday, but I won't say which one..I don't think my mom will be too happy if I gave away her age :P
Showing off their new Packer stuff!

Fall Leaf Fun

There are 2 huge trees in my parents front yard and my dad being the grampa he is raked up all the leaves for the boys to play in...the had an absolute blast!!! (oh and that huge pile is only about half the leaves, the trees were still pretty leafy at this point!)

Healing up rather nice

When we were in Colorado Tucker fell at the bowling alley..and it was BAD...really deep and he even chipped off a good chunk of one of his molars. Nurse Grampa took care of Tucker's cut and it healed really well. Good thing my dad is a nurse because Tucker would only let Grampa look and touch it. Thanks dad for taking such good care of Tucker!