Yankee Fishing

We have not managed to fish much this summer but we did go the weekend before last. We went to one of our favorite lakes Yankee Meadows. Its one of our favorites not because of the loads of fish we catch but because I think its BEAUTIFUL.

The boys are getting pretty good with the worms and the hooks (g...r...o...s....s)

I don't have a fishing license and since I would hate to break the law its up to Dewey to get the boys poles and his own ready, as I lounge on a blanket reading and taking pictures :)



LOVE this one

Its all about the memories

We brought the dogs with us this time, Skip didn't sit still the whole time and had a blast running along the trail and through the mud.

A slightly different story for my little princess bailey. Can you just tell from this picture how much fun she is having being out in nature in the dirt?

The boys are getting a tiny bit better about sitting with (or at least somewhat watching) their poles.

We can really only be near water for so long before we just have to jump in. And lets just say play king or Queen of the mountain or stump in the lake.

Once I did it of course it became the funnest thing ever

This next picture has Luke and the shark on his shirt with the exact same expression

Kolby stranded himself, so Luke to the rescue

I just love these pictures, They are so protective of each other.

They made it almost all the way back before kolby "fell" in the water. After that any hope of staying dry was lost.

Now I am not by any means a fishing expert but I have to think the above playing and this type of fun does not help the fishing cause....

Poor Dewey not a nibble or bite of his very nice carefully tended pole. However both Luke and Kolby caught a fish on their Transformers and Cars kids poles. (catch and release of course) You would think I would take pictures of that but I took a video of each instead. It just occurred to me the other day that I'm always so busy taking pictures we have almost no videos of the boys. Opps.......

We also had a first bee sting. Literally about two minutes after we had hiked around the lake carrying fishing stuff, chairs, and lunch to our spot. Luke got stung by a bee on his neck. Luckily Dewey just happened to bring the new snake/insect bit kit we got. It worked great to suck the venom (is that what bees leave?) out. We slapped a little mud on and talked the boys out of leaving and going home inside the house where there are no bees. (which was what they were begging) And enjoyed the rest of the day.