A Fishing Tale

 We have been fishing a few times this year and having a great time. It seems like I never have my camera with me or just forget to take pictures. So, we went the first part of November with the kids. The kids lost interest after a while (that's pretty typical--they really want to go and then they end up throwing rocks or playing with the fish we catch instead of actually fishing). Mike and I kept going and I was ready to go home when Mike pulled in the biggest trout that we've seen caught from the reservoir we were at. We were really excited about it. We decided to fish some more and I was about ready to be done when I felt something on my line. It ended up being a huge fish (for us!) and dwarfed Mike's big fish. I definitely took some pictures when we got home to document this trip.
 

My fish was about 18 inches long and we think it weighed about two pounds. Earlier in the year we caught trout that were only 6 inches long so this was a big difference!

Carson's birthday

Carson turned five in October. He was really excited to be five, but on his birthday he commented that he really didn't feel any different being five instead of four. We have a tradition that you get to blow out the candles a lot on your birthday and we put candles in every meal. Above is a picture of Carson's breakfast. Below is a picture of one of his presents. He kept asking for a "bone and arrow" set. He was really excited to get it along with lots of other great presents.

Here is his cupcake bulls-eye cake with one of his arrows sticking out of it.

This picture was taken a few days after his birthday. He got this little plane that he could paint and he and Mike had a great time assembling it and painting it.

October

In October we kept busy doing some fun autumn activities.
We had to make our annual trip to the straw bale maze down the road.

We also had a fun time decorating and carving pumpkins before Halloween. Carson was sick on Halloween, so we didn't go out and I didn't get any pictures of their costumes.