A big fish, a stubbed toe, and a heck of a lot of fun!

Since I know the first thing you will want to see is my poor toe I have it here for your viewing pleasure. In the middle of the night I was being the loving spouse and getting up to flip on the heater and this was my reward. The table bench was the culprit. Youch! The good news was baby Trace slept right on through it!..oh and yes I did clip my toe nails immedietly afterwards. :) Sick!
I've always been a terrible fisherman but I love to go fishing. We found a perfect spot and I sat down with my walmart reel and all of a sudden "pop", my reel popped right off and my pole came apart... but there it was! ... a fish! I grabbed the line and yanked and yanked flopping the poor fish high onto the hill behind me so he wouldn't flop himself back into the lake.

Only then we realized that we didn't have a bucket... I ran up to the explorer and found a bag which we filled with water and stuffed him inside.

By the way, anyone know what kind of fish this is? I have no clue! But he was tastey!
Lisa was an excellent cook as usual. She cooked up Mr Fishy and we all tried eating him.
Delicious but very very boney! Shawn was the only lucky one to get one stuck in his throat!

We had a great time! !

Below are a few videos we took of the weekend.

Fun times!

Videos:

1) Campground slothing

2) The fish o fishes!

3) Awesome camp spot - Canyon Campground about an hour from here.

Hooray for summer!

So where are the dwarfs?

My niece Kiera had her princess birthday party yesterday. Lisa (Snow White) was the guest of honor. Here you can see a little prince Trace.

Kiera was a beautiful Cinderella.

There were lots of little girls. You should have heard them let out a scream when Ogre Shawn came out and startled them.

I am still waiting for the 7 dwarfs to arrive and begin cleaning up our yard so if you see them please send em our way.

The Blue-Mouthed Group!

Trace got his first taste of a Raspberry blue snow cone. He liked it. We all did!

Camping...Finally!

We have been wanting to go camping for so long! Finally, we were able to go. It was kind of a last minute trip but I got home from work and we loaded up everything and headed to the woods. We brought Kenya, a sack of snacks from Albertsons, and a slew of blankets.
We drove about an hour and found the perfect place. The best places for camping have tons of trees, a creek of some sort, and space. We had our pick of spots since no one else was camping.
Trace loved looking at the fire. I will admit it was a bit weasely of a fire as most of the twigs we could find were pretty small but it did the trick.
Since it was still a bit chilly in the night we all slept in the same bed. Yep.. Kenya, Lisa, Trace, & I all all snuggled nice and warm.

We had a great time and will be going again soon. Only next time I'm double checking that we have enough propane for the heater. ;)

My New Project!

The new thing I am into is making Trace's baby food. It is SO fun! I found these cute baby food recipes online and make him little gourmet meals. It is way easy... I get some fresh veggies and fruits like peaches, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes and apples and put them in the blender. Then I pour the puree into ice cube trays and top with wax paper until they freeze overnight. Then I pop the cubes out and put them in ziploc bags with a label of what they are. Now the fun part is for each meal I just pick out the cubes I need (each cube is 1 oz) and put the entire bowl in the microwave for a minute. It is fun because each meal is different and he just LOVES it! I wasted so much baby food because he wouldn't eat it. He hates green veggies so I just mix a little bit in with the other stuff.

Last night he enjoyed Cinnamon Sweet Potato soup. I just put a cube of chicken, 1 carrot cube and 4 sweet potato cubes in the microwave and added a dash of cinnamon to it. He ate it up big time!


If any of you have any baby food ideas please let me know!

Here fishie fishie fishie!

Lisa and I were determined to go camping this weekend but it just wan't quite warm enough last night so we decided to pack up and go fishing at Lucky Peak today. We also wanted to find out where some good spots are where we could put our trailer some time. It was fun!

Your probably wondering how many fish we caught... The answer is zero! Oh well, I did reel in someone elses hook though so I threw that into my tackle box. Never can have too many of those. :-)

The panorama pictures are tiny but if you click on them you can see them better. Its a fun place.