Spring will never come!

I have not even gone through a whole winter here, but it NEVER ENDS. It snowed yesterday. It's in the 20s now. So warmer, but come on now...it's almost April! Okay, complaints over.

The positive part is that daddy and Connor get to go ice fishing well into April. Connor went for the first time this past Saturday and had a great time. They caught about 25 little silver salmon...about 8-10 inches each...and divided them with the other kid and dad set that they went with. They have little heated wood huts they drag out on to Chena Lake and drill four holes through the ice. Luckily they cover the holes they aren't using, so no baby down a texas well incidents! Mommies still worry about little boys getting chilled, so I trussed him up like the kid in Christmas Story. He smelled like fish and had scales in his hair when he came home -- dirty, smelly and fish all in one day!? Kid bonanza! Of course he refused to do more than nibble the fish we cooked up last night but they're pretty tasty!


Then Easter came...and we needed to decorate eggs. If the pictures look blurry it's because Connor rarely slows down enough to take a still picture. Eggs are EXCITING! You can make a mess and throw around delicate objects all at the same time. We were very excited about the Easter Bunny concept, especially since in a quest to get a forbidden movie down while mommy was in the shower, Connor used a chair and rolling pin to knock tons of items down from the closet shelf, including his Easter present stash. I let him keep the Thomas train, but the rest had to go back because the Easter Bunny hid them there to keep til Sunday morning. He talked the whole time about the puzzles he was getting when the Easter Bunny came back to give them to him. Sigh...maybe next year the Easter Bunny will get a titanium lock box for the present stash.