Monday, November 30, 2020

November Fishing from Beaufort Inlet

As the nation was busy counting votes the day after the Election, Brent and Brock got "away from it all" and headed out for some deep-sea fishing. Best part - they were successful!!

Catch the video of the boys catching their BIG fish! 


It was a monster-sized King Mackerel!


A little snippet of the boat's autopilot. I think Brock is still a little unsure of leaving his post like Brent does. ;)


Look at that fish!



After Brock returns, he writes about it in his Fishing Journal - an awesome, thoughtful gift from Cousins Andrew & Lauren last Christmas! 

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Halloween 2020


The family picked out the best pumpkins on the lot right up the street from our house! We love this pumpkin patch! :) 


Two big ones and 3 baby gourds!



The day before Halloween, I had a helper to bake my Halloween sugar cookies. Little man didn't want to dirty his Halloween sweatshirt, so I offered him an apron and we both wore one! 

Do you think we have enough sprinkles? (Alas, no after pictures of finished product cookies!!) 


Left our pumpkins for Halloween Day and I was thrilled they wanted to paint instead of carve. 




Our Halloween set-up for candy dispersement! I liked this much better - this way we all got to go on the walk around the neighborhood!

Kade dressed as Kylo Ren (without the mask) and Brock was Batman! (I think this makes 3 Halloweens he's been Batman!)

A photo opp for Moose too!
We started early and trick-or-treated until they started complaining their pumpkins were too heavy (and this was after we unloaded one time!)! 

We hit this house a little early, but people were really going all out for this socially-distant holiday. I love that in North Carolina it's still so mild that it's comfortable trick-or-treating - and being outside enjoying the trick-or-treaters!

Some of our neighbors' displays were really cool! (This was all decorated on the back of someone's truck in their driveway) Other people had built candy chutes to send the candy from the top of their stairs down to the kids standing on the walkway. 

Moose is unfortunately just too big for any Halloween outfit we own. He wore Diesel's pumpkin for about 3 minutes before his chest popped the velcro! 

The next best thing is to wear Brent's sweatshirt! 

 

He looks like ET! :)