Thanksgiving 2010 - Fishing

The boys had a great time fishing at the pond at the ranch. How could they not? You drop in your line and BAM! You got a fish!

My Name is Drew and I am the king of fishing.

Two boys. Two fish.

My name is JB and I am The Great Fisherman of this pond.

Drew has a big one. Well, bigger than most.

Say, "Ah." Or, "Pucker up!"

Brothers.

Proud of their catches.

And, look! I was there, too.

Thanksgiving Catfish 2010

The boys and I went with my mom and dad to the ranch on the Saturday of our Thanksgiving holiday. Drew caught a small catfish on his hand line. It was the biggest catch of the day. More to come on the rest of the fishing adventures.

Thanksgiving

The boys and I departed from our driveway at 6:15 am on Wednesday, November 26th- JB's birthday. It seemed like we had to stop 50 times but we actually made it to Refugio in good time. Wednesday we ate at Moya's and had cake for JB's birthday. Thursday we ate at home and it was such a nice day that we spent most of it out in the front yard with the boys and Hannah running around shooting each other with the nerf guns that were birthday gifts. Friday we at Moya's. :) We went to Walmart for about an hour and then over to Chile's to have more birthday cake. Saturday we spent the day at the ranch running around, fishing, and catching armadillos. Grandpa let the boys each drive his RTV. It was hilarious.




Then we booked it home and had it plenty of time to get ready for work and school on Monday.

Going to the Ranch

We spent a lot of time out at my parents ranch over the Easter weekend. It's a great place for the boys to roam and explore. Being the over-protective mom that I am, they don't stray too far from the adults but they do have a great time out there!

This looks like pure trouble!

Drew, Jacob & JB

Mckenna, Drew, JB & Wilson

My dad feeds the fish in his pond so it's pretty cool to fish here. We just use hand lines and the boys have gotten great at handling the fish. They still need to learn how to take the fish off the hooks and re-bait the hooks but all in good time.

Grandpa, Drew, JB & Mckenna

Grandpa is quite popular with the four wheeler. I can't believe I actually got this shot with all three kids actually look back towards me!

Fishing, Funeral & Halloween

This past Sunday we went fishing with my dad at his ranch. It was a lot of fun. JB & Drew had the best time. It's so funny because Drew is always so gun-ho, ready to go. JB is a bit more reserved, not so sure. It's fun to see the differences in them. It was even funnier when JB pulls up his line and screams, "I caught the biggest one!" My dad and I were both just laughing! And then he caught another big one. Oh, and one more big one. Needless to say, Drew wasn't happy about that. Thankfully, Joe took him on a ride on the four wheeler and that was over.

My boys are definetly more on the city slicker side. We need to get down to the ranch more often. When JB came back from his four wheeler ride he had some cow poop on him. Well, we all thought it was funny. But JB, no- not so funny to him. JB got to pet the cows. He pet a mama and after that Joe said that every cow was "Hi Mama Cow!" JB is so funny!

The boys also went to their first funeral and they did very well. JB was a little giggly but I kind of thought that Uncle Henry would actually like that even though I told him to be quiet. When I first told them that we were going to a funeral and explained that my uncle had died, Drew announces, "Mom, we're sad too because we didn't get to meet Uncle Henry and we really wanted to." I thought that was so sweet.

We are heading back down south for Thanksgiving. It will be the first one in years. I'm not sure that I've been back home for the holidays since the boys have been born. It has just always been too expensive. Of course, I'll have to fix Drew a hamburger because the boy is pickier than I was when I was a kid! It will still be fun to be all together. JB's birthday is that Sunday so I'm sure we'll have cake or something.

Oh- Halloween was a hoot! Drew dressed up as a vampire. And, since it's his birthday, there is always a lot of commotion around the day. JB dressed up as a red PowerRanger. I wish I could get them to dress up in a theme like Scooby and Shaggy or Woody and Buzz. But there's always one character who is cooler than the other. I'm not going to give up on that though. Maybe one day they'll see it my way! We went trick or treating with my good friend from high school, Kristi and her kids. Dawson is about 6 months older than Drew and then Elizabeth is in the 2.5 range. The kids were the only ones out on their street. Drew and Dawson ran from house to house and probably could have been done in 15 minutes if we didn't hold them back so the JB and Elizabeth could keep up.

One of the cuter parts of the night was when JB ran up behind Dawson and Drew finishing up at one house, he got his candy and the lady was trying to close the door and he stood there yelling, "Wait! Wait! We've got one more!" And here comes Elizabeth to get her candy. It was too cute! I'm really glad that Kristi called Halloween night and we went to her house instead of going to Main Street here in Grapevine. We drove past Main Street on the way home and it looked like a zoo. This was way better! It reminded me of when I was a kid.


There's your Halloween & November Adventures!