Fishing Derby

Today was the annual kids fishing derby at Lake Tye and the boys were very excited to catch some fish!  This is Jacob's 3rd or 4th year participating and he knows the routine.  He knows that we always grab McDonald's breakfast on our way down to the lake and won't let us forget that important detail!  This was Cameron's second year fishing, but the first time he was really into it.

After waiting in the line for a while, it was our turn to catch some fish.  It is so crowded that we don't let the kiddos cast or else every one's lines get crossed and tangled, so Jason and I took care of that.  We didn't do much better though!  Each of us managed to successfully cast the lines too far out to where they got caught in the nets and we had to cut the line and put new hooks/weights on it.  Super exciting!

It didn't take long for the boys to each get their two fish.  Cameron was hilarious!  He wanted to get in the water, pet the fish and was very upset when he thought we weren't going to let him hold it!  Here are a couple of pics of the boys and their fish!

The things that come out of kids mouths...

Our boys have been keeping us laughing these days!  Here are just a few of the things we have documented from the past day or so:

1.  After picking Jacob up from school today...

 

Jacob:  Mom, guess what? We got another new student in our class today.  His name is "Dentist".

Me: Really??  His name is Dentist??  That is an unusual name!  Are you sure his name wasn't Dennis?

Jacob:  Oh yeah, that was his name!

2.  Whenever we ask Cameron for kisses, we say "Cam, give me some sugar!" and he comes running up with smooches for us.  Now he will ask us for kisses and say "give me lots of sugars mommy!"  The other day after I got him up from nap I gave him a kiss on the cheek and he starts sobbing and says "give me back my sugars"!  Apparently he was still a little grumpy!

3.  Today Cameron stayed home with Jason while I went to work.  While Jason was making lunch he turned around and Cameron had his pants and underwear down around his ankles.  Jason asked him what he was doing and he responded: "I have a spider in my butt!!"  Not sure where that came from lol. 

Happy Easter...a day late!

Happy Easter!  We kicked off the festivities on Saturday morning with the community Easter egg hunt at Lake Tye.  I didn't get any pictures at this one but both the boys had fun.  Cameron even got one of the special "prize" eggs and was able to go an choose a toy which was pretty exciting for him!

Saturday evening we finally got around to dyeing our eggs.  Jacob always enjoys being artistic when it comes to this activity...Cameron, not so much!  I think he was trying to see how much of a splash he could get when he dropped his egg in the cup of dye!

The finished eggs!


After we were done dyeing eggs, the boys choose which one they wanted to leave out for the Easter Bunny, along with a few carrots.  The next morning they were both VERY excited to see what the Bunny brought them!

Cameron was most excited about the chocolate in his basket!

After the boys went through their baskets, we got ourselves ready and headed out for Nana and Grandpa's house fore more Easter fun!  

Nicole, Jacob and Cameron

Nathan and Jacob

Looking for the "golden" egg....Grandpa had given Cameron the clues and he was telling the others where they were!

Cousins!


After brunch, egg hunt and a scavenger hunt for the adults, we then went to Grandma and Poopa's house for dinner and one more egg hunt.  

We had a wonderful Easter spent with family and on top of that, the weather was beautiful!  I can't remember the last time that it wasn't pouring down rain for the egg hunts!