President's Day Ice Fishing

I might have accidentally started a family tradition that I don't think I want to commit to. Last year we happened to do this same activity, on the same day, at the same place. Matt LOVES ice fishing, well basically, he loves any kind of fishing. He's been saying how fun he thinks it would be for the whole family to go ice fishing, and I have resisted until last Monday. So we went and it was pretty much a joke. Matt got Nina a fishing rod for her birthday so initially she was excited to be out fishing, but the all kids got bored pretty quickly. They started throwing ice balls into the water, getting uncomfortably close to the holes, bumping into Matt's fishing rod and the usual fighting. Exactly what I predicted would happen, but at least none of the kids fell into the hole like last year. So aside from that non-stop policing, the ice was totally freaking me out. We would keep hearing these loud cracks and I worried that any minute we were all going to fall in. So that was our fishing trip and shockingly we didn't catch anything. Maybe we'll be busy next President's Day!

Nina loving her new Barbie fishing rod.


Matt likes to try to see the fish in the water. To each his own.


Donovan sat for a few seconds with Nina's fishing rod...


So of course, Howie had to try as well.


And this is what they did the rest of the time.