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This weekend was Great! My Ryan's birthday is coming up on the 26th. A while back I had asked him what he wanted for his present and his response was simple. He just wanted to go fishing, him and I since we didnt get to do much on vacation this summer. It is hard to do with 3 kids under 7. Especially with an infant.

So I made some calls and arranged for the kids to have a place to go for the weekend. We both took Friday off of work and headed to my grandma's cottage that I rented until Sunday afternoon. NICE! The only problem was that the weather man was calling for rain all weekend long. So we dropped the boys off at school and Ryan's mom came to watch Kamryn for the day. (She watches them every Friday - Blessed!) Before we headed to the cottage though we made a quick detour to Gander Mountain and bought me some new rain gear and a few lures. So glad we did that! I would have been miserable otherwise.

We got the boat launched, went to the cottage and unpacked, then geared up and headed out. I love fishing. Especially with Ryan. But it is not as enjoyable in the freezing cold with downpouring rain. Even so we vowed to make the best of it. And it was worth it when my hubby realed this bad boy in...... Nice pike huh? :)



Anyone who knows me knows that I am deathly afraid of the water. After watching him land this guy.....well it made me realize I won't be swimming in there anytime soon. We both also caught a couple nice bass and then called it a night. Saturday we came back home to watch the boys play soccer (which was canceled due to rain) then headed right back out. Did some more fishing in the pouring cold rain and I caught 5 really nice bass like these and Ryan didn't catch anything. But he was fishing for more pike, not really for bass.


Sunday we didn't catch anything and ended up heading back home early cause we missed the kids terribly. It was our first weekend away from the boys in a really long time and the first time leaving Kamryn. Man were we glad to get them in our arms. :) This weekend was a great time to reconnect with each other and have some fun. Even in the rain.

p.s. I think I am going to write the DNR asking for them to open up a season on The Blue Heron. Every day as we were fishing these birds scared the living you know what out of me. They sound like a Velociraptor flying through the air. I thought I was going to fall out of the boat one time it scared me so bad. I will have my revenge somehow....