Memorial Day Weekend

Over Memorial Day Weekend we went up to visit my parents.  On Friday, the 23rd I was able to get off at about 1pm.  Steve picked me up from work downtown, we stopped and got a bite to eat, then headed on the road.  We made another stop for the bathroom and gas and made it in good time. Nyles did really well and slept some of the way.  We made it in time for dinner, then put Nyles down to bed after he got some wiggles out.  He was so excited to see Grandma and Grandpa.  Anna and Barbara were going to come visit, but they both were sick or had sick kids and didn't make it.  Daron/Kristi had to go to SunValley.  We had a pretty low key weekend, which was great though ;)

Early the next morning Steve and my dad took the boat out to go fishing.  Dad got up at 2am to go bail the hay that he had cut earlier in the week.  The wind started blowing that night so he was worried about it ruining his rows.  At about 6pm he and Steve left to go fishing.  Though the wind was still blowing some, they said the fishing was really "hot."  Steve said he caught 8 fish in 10 minutes when he was timing it and they probably caught over 150 fish total.

My dad catching a fish.  Steve catching a Blue Gill.

 My dad enjoying his boat and the little fish he's catching ;)

The bales my dad did.  They are selling all bales to a dairy farmer.

They have to come and load the bales and get them off the field asap.

While they were out fishing, we were working ;)  Nyles wanted to go play outside on the lawn and bring some trucks out, but since it was a little long I decided I'd better cut it.  I was able to get the lawn mower going so I started to cut.  My mom came out to be w/ Nyles.  She put him in a wagon and went to different parts of the lawn and picked up pine cones and twigs.  He was just content being w/ her and watching the cat play around them on the lawn.  Uncle Mark even came over just at the right moment when I ran out of gas and couldn't find any.  He found some in a small container on my dad's pickup.  He then started the lawn mower for me and brought the loader over for me to dump the cut grass into.

 Nice cut grass, much better to push the motorcycle around on

The silly cat Addy

After they got back we has lunch, then my dad took a nap (can't blame him silly guy).  Nyles wanted to go back outside of course.  For some reason he LOVED this old rusty dump truck we had as kids (it's been left outside if you couldn't tell).

Nyles enjoying a snack 

The old dump truck 

Old loader

Nyles getting a rock out of his shoe

It got hot so we decided to get the pool out....

and apparently we kicked a snake out of his hiding spot, gross!

Nyles was so excited to play in the water.

He brought this duck decoy all the way up from our place (silly kid)

Having fun in the water

Sitting w/ daddy

Going fishing!

It got a little cold, so we got dressed then played w/ bubbles

Nyles loves bubbles

 That afternoon we went back out on the boat.  We put an anchor down and just fished in a couple spots.  Nyles had a great time pretending to drive the boat and watching the fish come in that we caught.  It was a lot of fun.  The wind didn't blow too bad and the sun was shinning; it was great!

A small mouth bass my dad caught

Reeling one in

Nyles helping

Dad and Nyles on the boat....bye bye fish, until next time

Sunday after church we played a game of croquet.  My dad took Nyles on a ride on his motorcycle and when he got off Nyles said, "Wow, wow, wow!"  It was so cute.  Ironically my dad asked later if he wanted to go on a ride and he said no.  I guess he got scared.  Silly boy.

Nyles, Addy the cat and my mom....so cute ;)

That afternoon we picked up Grandma VaLere and visited Grandpa Hegerhorst's grave.  

Ironically Mark, Marla and Margie were there too.  

Talk about good timing!

Dad, Grandma and Mark

Yes those are dad's tan lines ;)

We left Monday morning so we could beat some of the traffic and the heat.  I stepped in to say goodbye to Grandma for just few minutes and Nyles had fallen asleep by the time I got back in the car.  He slept an hour or so and did great on the way back home as well.  We all took a quick nap after getting home, then went to hike Donut Falls.  They had the gate closed so you couldn't drive in, so we hiked the roadway to the trailhead.  Nyles was pretty much done after that.  He was really interested in the snow patches on the side of the road though.

Nyles had fun throwing rocks in the water

And walking across the log

We gave him a granola bar in order to get him back in the carrier

Such a pretty view

After we got back we had a BBQ and enjoyed the rest of our evening together.  I had ordered another life jacket for Nyles.  It's for a Child, which is 30-50 pounds and the Infant one we have is up to 30 pounds.  He just about 30 pounds so he can use either, but we wanted to get the next one anyway.  As soon as he saw it he had to try it on then kept saying, "Boat, boat, grandpa, grandpa."  He pretty much associates a boat now w/ Grandpa and says it all the time.  I think he had a really good time on the boat w/ Grandpa.  Too cute ;)

Nyles thought it was funny to play in the box as well....