Ice Fishing

Yesterday Barrett took Luke ice fishing along with his brothers, dad and friend Cub. They headed up to Strawberry with hopes of staying warm and catching lots of fish. This turned out to be what Barrett described as "one of the best days of being a dad." Barrett and his dad had bought an ice fishing shelter in hopes of keeping Luke warm and making it enjoyable for him. They had been fishing for awhile and Luke was in the shelter with his two uncles Lincoln and Tanner. While they were in there Luke dropped his line into the hole and after a little while he said "whoa I got one, I think this is a really big one!" Well, at first Lincoln and Tanner didn't believe he had a fish on his line but he sat there and fought it and after a couple of minutes he asked Lincoln for some help. Lincoln grabbed Luke's batman fishing pole from him and realized there really was a fish on there. Lincoln helped him bring it in and it was a huge cutthroat! Luke was so excited he could hardly stand it. He was jumping up and down and couldn't contain himself. He just ran up to Barrett and gave him a huge hug and for Barrett, that moment was one of the best moments for him as a dad. So, they stayed warm and caught lots of fish!

Luke with his Grandpa and Dad, proud as ever

Luke with his uncles Tanner and Lincoln (yea not sure what that thing on Tanners head is)

The crew, minus Cub who took the picture

Christmas 2010

Setting out cookies and milk for Santa

That face says it all!

We had a great Christmas. We actually had to wake Luke up Christmas morning and we asked him if he thought Santa came. He wanted to immediately run out and see but we told him he had to wait until we could change Tessa's diaper. As Barrett was changing her diaper Luke was sniffing with his nose and said "I don't smell any coal!" All month we had been telling him if he was naughty he was going to get a big lump of coal. When he asked what that was, we explained that it was a big black stinky rock. So, he was reassured when he couldn't smell any coal!

Tessa was all tuckered out

Barrett Shoveling snow and Luke eating the snow (his favorite thing to do)

Tessa's new play pen:)

We had a great holiday and we are sad it is over, but we made lots of great memories!

Recap

We started off the holiday season by making gingerbread houses. Luke loved it, mostly because he got to eat the frosting and candy while he was doing it. I asked Luke if he ate the frosting and he said no, I asked him if he was telling the truth and he said yeah I did eat some. Yeah, I thought so!

We went and saw the Christmas lights with some friends and had a blast! We rode the train, got hot chocolate, saw the lights and tried to stay warm.

Santa came to our family Christmas Party!

All spiffed up for church

Tess in her cute dress from Grandma

(doesn't she look so big, she is growing up too fast)

Just some cute pictures of Tess