Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Ice Fishing....Really??

Really??  That was my whiny response to Ed's request that we all head out ice fishing Sunday after church.


Fishing I get...lay in a boat in the warm sunshine with the a great excuse that nothing else got done in the day...


Ice Fishing is a whole other matter...sit out in the freezing cold with nothing to do but think that you are freezing cold - on top of 10 inches of ice which is also freezing cold waiting for some fish to bite some rotten piece of shrimp (which got thus by sitting on your kitchen counter for 2 days) just in the hope that something will occupy you mind other than the fact that you are freezing cold.


Although, as you may have guessed I gave in; my husband LOVES ice fishing...even though I can't understand why and I knew it meant a lot to him AND I figured it would be some good family memories and time spent together. 


On that point I was right.  The kids were super cute with their little fishing rods that they diligently held for all of 5 minutes and the rest of the time they had a blast playing in the snow and scooping ice from the fishing holes.
It was a beautiful afternoon and I had fun playing around with my camera despite the cold.









Pardon the poor quality here but it was just a cute moment and I didn't want to miss it by fiddling with settings...Gabe was SOOOO tired after being out eliana was able to cuddle the sleeping Gabe on her lap and give him kisses without him ever knowing...he was so out!!




1 comment:

Renee said...

don't tell my husband you caved!! haha, just kidding, it looks like a lot of fun, what lake did you go to? did you catch anything?