This picture of our nephew Reece spells out Summer in a nutshell...
Rope swings, hot days, playing in water, and big 'ol happy smiles on a kids face. The only thing missing is the Popsicle on the boat dock with the yellow lab sitting and wagging its tail...sigh
S-U-M-M-E-R
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Before I tell the tall tails of our fishing stories over the month of August, let me show you our ninja turtle crime fighter. Jon and I snagged him these fun new pj's while he was at Gramma's for that sleep over I mentioned in the last post. He takes this crime fighting thing so serious.
The sleepover was a success and the new jams were a hit.
SCORE
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On to fishing news...
The month of August included a few fishing trips and I'm sure I would have done the individual stories more justice had I had time to blog on each one.. but let me sum this fishing business up.
I thought it fitting that Dana's pic of her FIRST fish ever be the first pic of the post. Considering she caught the first fish of the day! Go Dana with your bad self and your 2 inch long fish. Just tell people it was 3 feet long, they wont ever know the difference. and leave out the part where you thought you knew where your friend lived and we all ended up parking in some strangers drive way and fishing on a strangers dock in a strangers pond only for them to come home and run us off! LOL
(technically we were across the street from the correct spot, but I probably wont include that part in the details of telling this story.)
The Paul boys were on a roll reeling in their first fish. With a little help from Uncle Jon they had this fishing thing down. and loved it. and I did not know fish ate cooked corn ?
... and check out Uncle Chris with the 'catch of the day' on his line.
is that a Superman fishing pole Chris ???
The things we do for kids!
:)
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The next day it was more fishing time, except this time with Mimi and Pops along with us..
Crickets were on the menu for this trip.
It was a hot one on the dock and the crickets were in the shade with the company of Kellen most of the day.. ha
Though when he did fish, it was entertaining as always.
He has the casting thing down pretty well. He's just not one to set and watch the bobber. He thinks he needs to reel it in and keep going through the motions.
Half of the time the bobber and bait is out of the water and he'll be sitting there thinking its taking forever to catch a fish..
sigh
Pops is giving him some pointers and he is listening intently I am sure of it!
Mimi did do more fishing than Kellen did, but they were both more interested in bubble gum, drinks, the crickets, and the shade.. lol
He had my moms camera at one point and asked if he could take some pictures of the water and she said yes, so he took about three pictures of the lake and then looked at them through the view finder all serious-like and then said, ' we need to save those and put them in the scrapbook.'
LOVE him
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The Jaxsonater got to join us for our 2nd fishing trip with the Paul's this month.. This time we discovered a rope swing on the property and the boys loved it. Only had my iPhone with me this time.
This time the Davis crew sealed the deal on catching the fish.
This is Kellen's first fish! I think his face says it all. He is pretty stoked
Jaxson snagged him a doozy as well.
Talk about some might mighty mighty fishermen!
we have here! First it's puttering around in the pond and next it will be deep sea fishing!
We LOVE our simple life.
God is good
:)
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