Easter Fishing Trip

Ever since I was a baby, my family has been going to Lake Buchanan every spring. This trip was very fun and we caught lots of fish. Tim, the kids, and I left early (5:30 am) Friday morning and headed to the lake. We met my brother, his wife, and their son at the lake.

We stayed at Paradise Point and as you can see the lake is very low.

We got out on the water that morning. Kreek rode with my brother and his family.

Kaegen rode with Tim and I on Uncle Coy's boat that we borrowed. Kreek has been fishing for a couple of years now, but this was Kaegen's first time to really fish with a real rod and reel and a hook. She had fun and adapted well. She would put the end of the rod under her arm and the reel was right at her armpit. When she would catch a fish she would instantly yell daddy. Tim was at the front of the boat and I was at the back about 2 feet from her. Did she ever yell for mommy's help? No, of course not only daddy. Tim would help her a little bit by holding the rod up, but she did most of the work and loved it. She absolutley refused to ever touch a fish, but I think I was the same way.

I don't know what it is about a boat, but it puts them to sleep everytime. I know it did with my kids. This is my sister-in-law, Alana and my nephew, Ty.

We caught 49 white bass fish on Friday morning.

My Mom and Dad met us later on Friday evening. We caught 55 fish that evening.

This was a beautiful sunset.

My dad was actually brave enough to let Kreek drive the boat back to the cabin.

On Saturday morning we went out and caught fish like crazy. Between all of us we raked in 155 fish. Kaegen and Kreek both started to get sick and run fever, but we were catching so many fish that they had to stick it out. Kaegen and I got on the boat with my dad and she was feeling pretty bad. I was fishing with her in my lap and I was just raking the fish in. Then all of the sudden I caught a fish and I knew it was a stripper. As Kaegen would say it, "Momma just threw me down." I then stood up and yelled for my dad to help me. Between him and I we got the biggest stripper that I have ever caught in the boat. I was screaming so loud.

Around noon we were still catching fish, but decided to come on in and start cleaning fish.

Here is the 155 fish we caught.

We had to use one of my dad's tote to carry all the meat in.

That evening I stayed at the cabin with all the kids since they were not feeling well. The others only caught 6 fish.

I promised the kids that they could go out on the boat on Sunday morning, so sick and all we went out. We had a little luck and caught about 18 white bass, 1 cropie, and a yellow catfish. I caught the catfish out of pure luck and accident. Since I caught him, Tim made me hold him for the picture. I have never messed with catfish and had no idea that they bite. I soon learned that they are not nice like white bass are and he bite the heck out of my fingers. So that is why I look weird in the picture and am holding his mouth open.

Just a cute pictures of my dad and my nephew.

The easter bunny did come to see us on Sunday morning and I will post those pictures another day. And I have some pictures of us cleaning the fish.

Easter Parties

Kaegen had her Easter Party on Wednesday and we made these cute bunny, tulip, egg and butterfly shaped ham and cheese sandwiches. They were a big hit and our dog, gringo, loved the outer edges of the sandwiches.



We also made some cupcakes that turned out okay also.

Kaegen wore her bunny ears to school and all the kids thought it was neat.

After snacks, they crossed the street for an egg hunt.

Ready, set, go!!!!!!!

Kreek's easter party was on Thursday when the wind was blowing 30 mph. His class was the only 1st grade class to have a party. The other three teachers did not want to mess with one. I thought that was pretty sad, but luckily Kreek has a great teacher. They walked to the local park, played, hunted eggs, ate a sack lunch and got a snow cone for dessert.

The egg hunt was very unique. Each kid brought candy filled egg with each of the kids names on them. So as you hunted eggs you could only pick up the ones with your name on it. That made it fair and quite enjoyable. At the end the parents were helping by yelling the kids names out as they stood by the eggs. With 17 kids and 19 eggs per kid it took quite a long time.

Spring break

Kreek has been wanting to go ice skating for a long time. So I promised him over Spring break that I would take him to Odessa to skate. My mom, Uncle Dave, Aunt Stef and Avery met us there. It was alot of fun. Kreek could not get the hang of skating, so he just ran on the ice, then slid. And he did all of this going 90 mph. He would fall and be back on his feet before I could blink. Kaegen just stood there and let us push her. As long as someone was touching her at all times she was fine. The kids had a blast and can't wait to go back.

Kreek's school rodeo and skiing videos

I have been trying to post this for a while, but with the recent rainy weather our internet was out of commission. I will not complained though because we needed the rain.

The First Grade PE and music teacher's put on a rodeo. The students got to make a stick horse and name it. Kreek named his rainbow and Tim hated it. The kids came into the gym riding their horses around.

They did the pleadges and sang Texas Our Texas.

Then they split into different groups and each kid did one event. They had a boot scramble, hat toss, barrel racing, pony express and calf roping. It was sort of like a relay race with 2 teams. Before each competition the kid's name and horse's name was announced and they waved.

Kreek did the calf roping and even brought his own rope from home. He was the last one to rope on his team. He was next in line and they were dead even.

He roped it on the first try. Tim and I were so proud.

Kreek running back to his horse to cross the finish line first.

Right after that the batteries on my camera died. So no more pictures, but I will tell you the rest. They sang a few more songs (She'll be coming round the mountain, The Lone Star Trail). Then they rode their horses out again.

It was a really neat performance and the kids loved it.


I have tried a hundred times to post a video on here and it never worked, but for some reason today it worked.

This is at Toas, NM on our ski trip. This is the second day of Tim teaching Kaegen and she did so good.

Kreek decided he wanted to try going down moguls. I went half way down to video first. Coy was in the lead and is the person Kreek runs into. Ashley is at the top following after. I love the way Kreek falls upside down, slids around, gets up and continues without even batting an eye. He then continues full speed down, jumping the mogals and slides to a stop at the bottom. He is definately fearless when it comes to skiing. Is he a James or what?

A few more things part II

Again, sorry it has taken me so long to post, but as always we have been busy. Also, my internet went out and I fought with Direc TV for 2 weeks before someone finally showed up to fix it. Lots have gone on since I last posted.

First of all we will start with Kaegen. She finally got to use her saddle Santa brought her and she rode Kreek's horse named nine-o. Tim helped, but she is starting to get the hang of it.

Also, Tim sent her a rose to school for Valentine's Day and she loved it.

We are trying to teach Kaegen how to ride a bike without training wheels. She is using Kreek's old bike that has no padding on the seat. It was a little rough but she is getting the hang of it also.

Now onto Kreek. Kreek's teacher had a pancake making valentine's party. The parents cooked the pancakes and the kids got to use a cookie cutter to make them into a heart shape and add just about any topping you wanted.

Kreek also had some new tricks he wanted me to take pictures of since it could not be all about Kaegen that day.

Also, Kreek got caught doing something good at school and was put into a drawing. His name got drawn and we got to go eat lunch with him at school on Friday. Luckily Tim had the day off and got to join us. Then later on during school that day he got to have an ice cream sundae dessert. He loved it.

The most exciting thing we have done lately was go skiing at Taos, NM. It was a very long car ride, but it was beautiful. The weather was perfect and the snow was amazing. This is Kreek's fourth year to go skiing so he is a pro, so we decided it was Kaegen's turn to learn. She caught on really well and loved to go fast.

I have some video's of the kids, but I can't get them to post. I will try again later.

I guess that sums up our lives so far.