A Day at Meemaws

Last weekend the family went to Meemaw's house to celebrate my birthday and spend some time together.

The kids got to play with lots of toys out in Meemaw's sunroom and she had plenty of snacks to tide them over for the morning.

Once Tiff and Chad arrived, we got all of our stuff together and headed out to the pond in her neighborhood to do some fishing.  The pond is stocked with really, really, really BIG catfish and some other small fishies.

We brought along a couple of fishing poles (one of them being a Car's fishing pole, kiddie sized!)

We hooked on some summer sausage for bait and had lots of luck.

We also threw in pieces of bread that the kids LOVED watching the fish swim up and eat.

It was a beautiful, overcast day, with temps in the 70's.

Watching the fishies off the pier

After we caught the fishies, Tiff and Chad told the kids to "kiss the fish" before we threw it back in to say sorry for hooking them in their mouth.

They meant a "pretend" kiss, but Maggie didn't sense the sarcasm, and LITERALLY kissed the fish.

Yuck!

One of the big ol' ugly catfish that we caught...

and no, we didn't kiss this one!

Daddy fishing with Mags

(she loved it!)

Colin was a little timid at first, but warmed up to it pretty quickly.  

Colin even caught the biggest fish of the day.

If you ask him how big the fish was, he spreads his arms out as wide as he can, and we figure that just makes him a good fisherman, right?  The fish gets bigger every time he tells the story!

After the kids took naps and we had a yummy dinner, Meemaw revealed GGRice's recipe for her famous pigs eye chocolate cake.  It is SOOOO good.  

It was SOOOO good.  Meemaw did a fabulous job on the cake and frosting.

The kids loved picking the frosting off, but I'm pretty sure I did that long before they did!

It was a great birthday weekend!