Our First Fishing Trip

Yesterday after we dropped Jason off at Dwayne's to go to the land the kids and I came home and went for a walk to see the ducks. There were some kids at the pond fishing and Ellie really got into the fish. I told her that night that after Dad got home we would go fishing and that we would get her her very own fishing pole. If she asked me about the fishing pole once she asked me a million times about it today.  So we headed to Wal-Mart and got the kids their very first fishing poles and a pack of $.88 hot dogs.  We headed to the pond right near our house about 6:45 this evening. Once we got the poles ready and the hooks were baited with hot dogs we were ready to toss them in. It was great!!! Right when we tossed them in we got bites. I bet we caught 20 little perch tonight. It was a lot of fun. Ellie was really into the fishing and believe it or not all Walker wanted to do was eat the hot dogs. He quickly realized they were not any good and went on his way. He mainly walked all over the place. I was hoping this would hold his interest more than it did but it sure didn't. After the first fish was caught he was done.  And of course it wouldn't be a great fishing trip unless someone fell in the water!!! Ellie fell in at the very end but after she quit crying she wanted to continue to fish. She was a muddy mess but I think she really had a good time. 

My pictures are all out of order. As I was loading them I realized how I need to do it to get them in the right order but it's late so this is as good as it is going to get. 

This was at the very end after Ellie had fallen in the water. 

Look how muddy she got. Poor thing!!

We had one fish on that broke the line on her princess pole so at this point we were fishing with Walker's Spiderman pole!

This is what Walker wanted to do most of the night.

Walker trying to hold the fish!

Her first Fish!!! She was very excited

Lost Pines

We just recently got back from a very relaxing vacation to the Lost Pines Resort, just right outside of Austin. We had a very good time and would love to go back in the years to come.  They had a great pool that had a lazy river that went all around the pool. Walker loved it so much and was able to get so comfortable in it that he fell asleep twice in my arms on the river. It was pretty awesome. Ellie was able to wear her puddle jumper and swim "alone" in the river. She had a great time and that was the first thing she asked to do when we got up in the morning. "I swim in river, I swim in river!!"  Jason played golf two days and I was able to relax at the spa one afternoon. It was a very fun family vacation!  I unfortunately don't have many photos from the trip.  We had the camera, we just never thought to take pictures. So here is what I have....

Ellie on the lawn during movie time. I am not sure if she is eating chips or popcorn. Every night they had a movie on the lawn and you were able to make Smores from 7-9 PM. It was heaven.

This is Walker dancing. It was the funniest thing ever. He is also covered in chocolate because he just inhaled a Smore.

On the lawn during movie time.

This was an activity for the smaller kids. It was called Bubble Finder. They all got a plate with cherries and whipped cream on it and they were supposed to find the cherries on the plate without using their hands.

About the start the Bubble finder game.

In our hotel.