The Weekend of Family; by Sherry

We were lucky enough to have all four of our kids together over Memorial Day weekend this year.  Josh, Laura, Spencer and Caroline drove in Thursday evening, Jeremy arrived Friday noon and Justin made it Friday night.  The boys planned their turkey hunting strategy friday night and got up early Sat. to hunt a few turkeys.  Laura, Jessica, Caroline, Kendall and Gavin went to joplin for our own kind of hunting, shopping!  Jeremy and Josh got their turkeys , three of them on Sat. thanks goodness!  I don't have picture of that,  I was out shopping.  My mom and dad, Kay and Jeff and Jessica's family joined up at Triple S that night for supper.  

     Sunday morning was spent fishing with my boys.  I don't usually catch any fish when we go fishing.  I don't know why, I used to be able to catch fish.  I fished a lot as a child.  Anyway,  my second cast in the first pond, I caught a channel cat on a bass lure!  But no one was there to see it!  The boys hadn't gotten there yet and PHil was at the truck fixing his pole.  So i took my own picture to prove I had actually caught a fish.  No one else caught a thing at that pond so we went to another.  Justin caught a good size cat fish there and Josh caught some smaller ones.  

Justin's catch of the day

See I really did catch a fish!  

 That night we spent at Jessica's new house for a birthday party.  Sunday was Jeremy's birthday and the coming Wednesday was Jessica's.  The kids swam in the pool while the adults talked and laughed. Nathan cooked some great food and everyone had a great time.

Happy Birthday to Jeremy, Jessica and my BFF Debbie Potter, who shares a birthday with Jeremy!

 

Grandma with her fish

PHil had to help Jeremy land one of his.

Monday morning we went fishing again, this time with Grandpa and Grandma Von Soosten at their pond.  This time we were fishing for bass.  Grandma, Josh, Phil, and Jeremy caught some fish with Jeremy taking the prize for the most fish.  I tried taking pictures of all the fish we caught, but after a while I got tired of taking Jeremy's picture all the time. He caught 10 before we left that pond!  Next the boys went to the pond down in our pasture.  This time it was Spencer who caught 5 fish, with Justin and Josh catching fish too. 

Jeremy and Grandpa weighing one of his fish.

Josh caught a nice one too.

Phil had to be different, catching a small sunfish.

Grandpa and his boys!  

Spencer's fish.  Josh cleaned these to eat when they got home. 

It was so wonderful to have them all together, it doesn't happen often enough.  We had a great time!  And yes i made some of my famous homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast Monday morning.

By 1:30 p.m everyone was on the road again going home.  While the house was way too quiet, Phil and i had some great memories to keep up company until next time.  Love you all!  mom.