Fishing practice and stuff

Matthew already shows his Fathers love of fishing.

Craig has set him up his own fishing pole and is teaching him the technique
of casting it. I am now happy to say I have pretend fish flying across
my house each and every day as Matthew "casts" his pole and "catches" Walleye.

Here is the birthday cake Valerie made me!!!!

Finger on line. Pull back bail. THROW!
Amazingly, he is quite good.

My Easter sweeties

Daddy having fun goofing off with some Easter eggs

Matthew quickly catching on to the goofing off!

Perfect day for flying a kite.

I am not sure if you can see it, but we have come up with
a brilliant way to fly our kites.

We have them connected to a fishing pole!!!
You can sure control it better this way and get them to
go really high!

Plus it's really cute to watch!

Where there is a motor...Matthew is NOT far behind.

Valerie loving the fishing pole kiting idea!

He was Craig's shadow. He didn't leave the boat at ALL
hoping to get a ride.

"Need my help Dad??"

Elizabeth spends a LOT of time in our canoe.
Here she is "rescuing" frogs.

Family canoe outing.