Thanksgiving weekend

Mason and Isaac enjoying unseasonably warm weather!  Mason in shorts and a t-shirt the weekend before Thanksgiving!!  Crazy!

Kade got to go goose and duck hunting for his first time ever and he absolutely loved it!

So much so that he took his birthday/Christmas money that I've been stashing away over the years for him and bought himself some kind of bird gun.  He'll give you all the details if you ask, all I know is it shoots birds.

Proof that they do like each other once in awhile!!

We had our annual Christmas with Megan and her family early this year.  With 6 busy kids, we gotta take what we can get!!  It ended up being the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but it worked out well to get us into the Christmas spirit!

The kids were all good sports again, wearing silly hats we get them!  

Not like they have a choice😉

We even made it down to the lights this year!  It's been a few years since we've braved them.

Smores station

Mason had a project called "Disguise the Turkey".

I may have helped him....a lot.  But he did most of the coloring!!  And it was definitely a collaboration.  

It ended up being a lot of fun and art projects are usually NOT my thing.

 

Halloween and Hunting

Well, this may be the first post in a loooooong time that I don't have a fish picture!  However, it's moved on to hunting....that is until the ice is thick enough to ice fish on 😉

This was the first year that Mason has shown a legit interest in going hunting.  So he got to go along and sit with Grandpa in his deer stand.  Which meant Kade got to sit by himself in his own deer stand!!  These boys are growing up too fast!!!

Kade shot this doe on opener.  He said he was going to let it pass but he wanted to show Mason a good time on his first day 😂

A week or two later he got his buck.

I didn't realize I was so behind that I still have Halloween pictures to post!

Not quite sure what exactly Mason's costume is but he loved it.  And he got a lot of compliments on it!

(Kade hung out a friend's house.  He says they handed out candy but my guess was they ate a lot of candy and played video games.)

Trick or treating with his buddies

We ran into his best girl, Laura Ingalls Wilder (aka Harper), while trick or treating.

Family pictures!

The Lorax (aka Lola)

 

MEA Weekend

These first pictures are from Mason's class bike trip.  Erik joined in the fun and the two of them biked about 14 miles total!  It was cold and windy and rainy but they did it!

The boys went up north for MEA again for a long weekend of fishing and hunting.  I had planned on joining them this year but since my brother and family have moved back, he wanted to go instead.  I gladly gave up my spot and stayed home to bask in a clean house for 5 days!  Besides their usual campsite being closed, they had a great time!  I don't think they got many birds but they had good weather and good company!  I know they're already making plans for next year.  For some reason the pictures got out of order, but I wasn't there so I couldn't tell you the proper order anyway!

Erik didn't get many pictures of Kade because he was always on the boat with Mason, while Kade was hunting with grandpa and uncle Jeremy.  There's no way Kade is going fishing when hunting is an option!