Fish Slayers!

Last weekend we were supposed to go camping at Diamond Lake...but we found out that it was going to be pretty cold. Since we were sleeping in a tent, we decided to nix that idea.

Then we were going to go for just the day...but we found out that the friends we were meeting up there had all been exposed to something we didn't want our kids exposed to. So we nixed that idea too.

Instead, we made it a family fishing weekend. Grant got a Toy Story fishing pole for his birthday, and we (Paul) were anxious to try it out. Paul borrowed a drift boat from our friends, and Grant and his friend, Addy, practiced up the night before.

 The next day we made it out of the house early to start our day of fishing at Fish Lake. We got out on the water at about 10:30...doesn't the early bird catch the fish...or something like that? :) Grant was so cute as he cast his little pole and waited for the fish to bite. He had only taken a couple of casts (really just dropped his line over the side of the boat) before he said "somethin's on it" real casually. He reeled it in and caught his first fish! He was ready to go home at that point, but we talked him into staying a little longer. But no matter how hard he and Daddy tried, they just didn't bring anything else in. Although they might have caught a few more if Daddy would have reeled them in instead of letting Grant do it. ;)

 

Mommy and Aubrie enjoyed watching the show, reading a book, and eating snacks.

Grant was so proud of his fish, and Daddy was so proud of his boy!

 

We had lunch at the little cafe on Fish Lake. I can't remember if I've posted pictures of Grant making this face before, but it is his new go-to face when he is posing for pictures. We couldn't figure out why in the world he kept making that face. Then one day when he was looking through pictures we had taken, he said "I have my binoculars on in that picture." Of course...binoculars. Why didn't we think of that?!

Grant got to eat his fish for dinner that night. Daddy grilled it up and we all got to eat some. Grant doesn't usually eat dinner, and he definitely doesn't eat fish, but he actually ate quite a few bites of his fish. I think he liked the fact that he caught it!

But we didn't get enough of fishing yet. The next day we went with our friends out to the Expo ponds. Grant and Addy had fun fishing for a little while, but then decided that it was more fun to swim in the pond. We had a little bit better success at the ponds. Paul hooked three fish, and Grant got to reel all of them in.

He has his Toy Story pole, she has her Barbie tackle box...how cute is that?!

Dads with their manly fishing poles

Aubrie really enjoyed the fishing ;)