Pics from the weekend!

Mike was in a fishing tourney in Chamberlain this weekend with a good friend of ours from the Cities. Here are a few pics of their weekend!

Oooooh look at the size of those fish! LOL

It was also a friend of ours 30th Bday, so I went down with a good friend of mine for the surprise party in Watertown! It was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see a lot of my good friends that I haven't seen in a while! Here are some pics of my weekend!

Bryan & Tim (Tim is obviously the Birthday boy!)

Jen and I

Jen, Brandon, Bryan, Christie & I

We played practical jokes on Bryan all weekend to pay him back on some previous ones he has pulled. Here Tammy & I bagged up his underwear and set it to sail off of his neighbors dock!

Here is Christie, Tammy and I chilling out!

Fishing

My wife asked me to write a little about mine and Kaiden's weekend of fishing. I told her no, but I guess you can see who won! As I think Shanley has mentioned before I really like to fish for walleyes and compete in walleye tournaments as much as possible. This weekend was the first tourney of the year, so Kaiden and I headed for Chamberlain on Thursday afternoon to prepare for the tournament on Saturday. We pulled up to the boat ramp about 3:30 Thursday afternoon and had our first and biggest fish in the boat at about 4:30, of course I will never hear the end of it that he caught a bigger one than me once again.

Friday morning Bryan Gaikowski (my tourament fishing partner) joined us and we fished all day long with only one keeper so our hopes of doing well in the tournament on Saturday were pretty bleak. Our only hopes were to go back to the spot Kaiden caught the big one on Thursday and hope fish were still in that area. Friday night was the mandatory rules meeting for the tournament and Kaiden made out pretty good again, a few guys appreciated him fishing all day and having so much fun in a sport that has less and less kids enjoying it all the time. They filled his arms full of fishing rods, gift certificates, hats and fishing stories.


Saturday morning came and tournament hours are set from 7:00am to 3:00pm. Kaiden is going to sleep in since he can't fish with us during the tournament and go help with the weigh in starting as soon as teams start coming in which we guessed would be about noon (teams are required to weigh in after they get their limit). But the start of the tournament is delayed because of heavy fog and we don't end up taking off till 10:30am now to weigh in around 6:30pm. So while we are waiting for the fog to clear Kaiden calls and ask what to do with the tray that his room service was delivered on. Man life must be rough two days of fishing, catching the biggest fish, a bunch of gifts, and now room service.


The tournament went much better than we could have hoped for with such a poor performance on Friday's preparation. We went back to Kaiden's spot and caught a fish a little bigger than Kaiden's Thursday fish along with some very nice ones to go along with it. We were about the 25th team to weigh in and we are sitting in 2nd place with 111 more teams behind us yet to weigh in we had our fingers crossed to stay in the top 10. Over all we ended up with the second largest fish in the tournament and a 4th place finish. Even Kaiden was proud of us but figured we would have won if he would have been able to come with. Kaiden helped weigh all 136 teams in and was paid by the tournament directer for his hard work. A weekend I will never forget and I am so thankful that I have a great wife that allows me to fish as much as I do. Kaiden being able to come and enjoy it with me makes it even better.

Snow in April!

This is a pic of a fortune from a fortune cookie that Mike got when we went out to eat the other day. It is kind of hard to read, but it says "If Winter comes, can Spring be far away?", I thought it was appropriate after the weather we have been having. We are having a crazy wet and heavy snow with huge SNOW FLAKES!!!! Yes that's right, we woke up this morning and it was back to snow pants, parka, snow boots, gloves, hats... Etc.! It has been snowing ever since! I watched from our office all day, and at 4 I left work early to go pick up the kids. No, not because the weather was too bad, but because I had just got caught up at the office, and thought it looked like a good day to go home early! I took a few pics of this craziness!

This is out of my front window on my way to pick up the kids from daycare!

This is what I had looking at me when we came in the house. I think the dogs were just as confused as us with the weather changes. I am sure Jake thought it would be a good day to come in and hang out with us. But that is defiantly not going to happen!!!

Kaiden went out to play in the snow!

and Karsyn was Sleeping Beauty! She was just too tired to clean her room, and said she needed a nap, so I told her to crawl into bed. When Mike came home I asked him to check on her, he said I had better take a look, and he thought I created a monster, so here is my little Diva out cold with her Bratz beauty mask on!

Here is a pic Mike took, I thought it was pretty!

Without further ado...

Here are the answers to the questions below!!!!

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . .. Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside ... Strawberry

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the>>>entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at>>>the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, bracket s, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh... Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s". Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Quiz

This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.

I thought the answers to these questions were pretty interesting, I will post the answers tomorrow!

1.Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the>>>bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

Anyone looking to feel dumb today?

Take this test and see!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/ny-et5thgrade0227-quiz,0,1168479.triviaquiz?coll=orl-home-promo


I got half way through and decided I didn't need to finish to find out!!!

Nephews!

Austin will be 7 and Mason will be 5

It is my nephews birthday party next weekend, Austin's bday is on the 14th and Mason's is on the 17th so they are having both at the same time,Kristin's is actually on the 11th as well! I am having a hard time thinking of something for them though, they really don't need anything and I hate buying toys, just for the sake of buying toys! I am open to any suggestions.

The Cousins!
They are the only cousins on both sides, and they are the greatest kids ever! We are so blessed to have them in our lives!

I've Been Edited!

Well it was only time before my children grew to the age in which they started to be concerned about me sharing things about them. That time has come with Kaiden. I will now need to have my senior editor approve articles that involve him before posting (which is kinda cute, and makes me giggle). Come to think of it I may be in trouble already as I am already breaking the rules!

Amber, I am guessing this shirt will not be applying to Kaiden! LOL