sick

January 2011

m started the week out monday evening being sick.
she just threw up once, then was fine.

fast forward to this morning.

the mr. and b were supposed to go fishing this morning.

everything was ready for them to go - until about 5 am.

the mr. and i both woke up at the same time.

sick.  of course.

the mr. was bound and determined that he was still going fishing.

until it was time to go and he was still sick.

you know the only thing worse than being sick?

being sick with your spouse and still having kids to take care of.

the good news is that b is a huge help and they mostly just played in their room all day.

tender mercy i tell you.

and after about 12 hours, we're both starting to feel better.

except that now b is sick too.
at least we all got it out of the way, right?

fishing

December 14, 2011

the mr. took b steelhead fishing today with grandpa and j&k.

they didn't have much luck - in fact they only caught one fish.

and it wasn't even a steelhead.

but it was one heck of a carp that they caught.

b gets all the credit for it.

it only seems reasonable since it *is* almost as big as her.

hell's canyon

the mr. had a chance to go down hell's canyon with some family and friends.

he had a blast and has some stories to tell about it.

particularly the story about the "experienced" rafter who dumped his boat (with his family inside), and how they, the experienced rafters, thought that the mr. was going to dump his boat in the same rapid.

he didn't.

the pictures (i'm told) are deceiving because they really don't show how big the rapids were, until you get a picture like this:

click to enlarge to actually see it!

and i'm too lazy to scan in the other pictures i have from the mr.'s trip.

perhaps i'll actually have some stories from their trip too!

brownlee

since the mr. wasn't going to get the fourth of july off, he got yesterday off instead.

the original plan was for the whole family to get together and go play on the desert/river.

but that plan was foiled by a wedding that the rest of the family went to.

so our little family + justin and kristen went fishing instead.

the new plan was to go up to brownlee reservior to go fishing on the snake river below the dam.

the mr. caught the first fish of the day.

he was one happy camper.

he had a bet going with our sister-in-law - whoever lost had to buy the other a slurpee.

by the way k, he's still waiting for that slurpee.

not thrilled about wearing her life jacket

right after these pictures, the boys managed to get us out of a sticky situation.

we had decided to go up right under the dam because it's supposed to be good fishing up there.

no one else was fishing up there though.

that's because they were smarter than us.

you see, they had the spillway on the dam open.

which made for some bumpy conditions, and the water running super fast.

which was fine - until the boat decided to die on us and the boys were having a hard time getting the motor going again.

but they did a good job hiding their panic from us - which was probably a good thing, since we were already in panic mode.

after fishing for a while, we decided it was getting too hot, so we drove the boat up to the park to have lunch and let the girls run around a bit.

the mr.'s solution to keeping m from falling in the water.

yes, he tied a rope to her.  and she actually didn't mind.

then, he let the girls get in the river with him.

they played for a few minutes until we all decided that we were going to get in, so we found a better area to play with more sand and less rocks.

the water was super cold, but felt so good in the hot sun.

after we played in the river, i stayed with m while she slept in the pickup and the rest of the gang went to fish some more.

the best fishing of the day was right off of the dock which was where we spent the rest of the day.

the sister-in-law with one of her fish.

she also caught the smallest fish of the day - like the size they put in sardine cans.

that takes talent you know ;)

and by the way, i think you look cute.

b got to fish with her daddy, which she absolutely loves to do.

m got to play with mom on the boat.

b's fish that she caught with the mr.

we had a great time playing and fishing together - hopefully we can do it again soon!

fishin'

the mr. and b went fishing yesterday.

the mr. had to go to town late thursday night to get food for their trip with the family.

he came home with a princess fishing pole just for b.

i'm not sure which one was more excited about the fishing pole - him or b.

he was a little jealous of her pole later on.

she caught the biggest fish of the day with her fishing pole.

it rained alot for them, so when it was raining, they did some driving around.

poor b was up at about 5:30 in the morning.  she didn't sleep on the way to go fishing.

the mr. said while they were driving around after lunch, she was playing with his sobe bottle and just zonked out like this:

notice the fingers in the bottle

b and suzi.

so jealous of that natural curl.

fishing with grandpa.

the gang, minus my mother-in-law.

and a picture of the mr. for good measure.

since he loves having his picture taken.

b keeps asking when they get to go fishing again.

that girl loves fishing with her daddy.