Fishing.

The other day I totally bailed out on Melissa and our exciting day filled with sanding and painting a crib to spend the day with T and Layla before he headed off to school. He said he wanted to go fishing with us. There is NO way I could pass that up! Layla and I LOVE to go fishing but just not for the length of time he does…and I am ok with not catching anything. Him? Not so much. See, there is this neighbor who knows this special place to take T fishing and now T is spoiled. If he doesn’t catch at least 40 fish what’s the point?! Ok, not really…but a little. He is more about catching than fishing which is why I am VERY thankful that after about 3 hours on Saturday we caught one. If we hadn’t we’d probably still be there and Layla and I would probably be pretty grumpy 🙂

I didn’t take any pictures for a pretty long time but decided to finally bust it out when my weak girly arms were tired of casting. I was SO proud of Layla here when she decided to grab her own worm from the tub!

And then she went on to tell me all about how you hold this pole and what to do with it

Taking a break to go check on dad

Holding worms

I love this 🙂

And this

There were a ton of cows. The first ones I saw came right out of the woods. Like IN the woods. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

This is Lucky. I think that was her name. She followed us around and watched close every time we brought our line up. She likes fishing…and swimming. And she smells a little like Sadie.

And she went off for a bit and came back with a green head. Not sure what she got into

Layla was having a blast! She has been wanting to go fishing again since whenever it was we took her before. Last year sometime. It was cold.

Thomo was teaching Layla how to do it

And I was hanging back with Lucky. She wiped her paw on me and got me muddy. I was just happy it was mud and not cow poop. Really happy.

It started getting chilly out so since there was no leaving without at least catching one fish Thomas decided he needed to leave the dock and go catch him a fish.

Layla and I stayed at the dock.

And waited

Waited for T to catch THE fish from the better spot…

The dog was hoping to help him bring in that fish he was going to catch

Meanwhile, I tried (and failed) to get Layla to smile and look into the camera but look natural.

Not so much.

Then she had to pee. And blow her nose. So off to the car/woods we go. When we got back to the dock I got the worm in the water while she either wiped her nose or did something else. Not sure what because that is when WE caught THE fish. I had to yell for Thomas over in his special not on the dock fish catching spot to get over and touch this thing because we caught one.

This was going to be a picture of Layla with her prize fish but Lucky sprints through branches just as fast as T does and was ready to help Layla take it off of the hook

I wish all of the pictures weren’t blurry

yuck

PERFECT timing! By the time the girls had caught the fish from the dock and had the guy touch it enough to throw it back it had started to get dark. We cleaned up and headed out. Thank goodness for that darn fish. It was getting cold.

We drove back to the friend’s house whos pond we were at dodging cows the whole way. Now if only it would have rained hard enough this morning to wash the poo and mud off of my car…now I need to spend the $9 to get my car washed with the pretty colors at the drive through 🙂