Fall colors

I had been wanting to take a drive up to the mountains to see the trees changing color for weeks and I was missing my window. We were finally able to go take a drive and have a picnic but we didn't have a whole lot of time to go too far, so we were trying to decide the best way to go. We decided to drive up the poudre canyon and found a really nice spot for a picnic - but it was not really the best drive to see the fall colors. Here's a little tip - if you want to see beautiful fall leaves - don't drive in the burn area from the fire last year :) haha!! Not very smart of us, but it was still a lot of fun and we found a spot that we want to go to again and again :)



Real Fishing

So we went and got some fishing poles :) I had to ask around to see where to even go since we never go, and we had friends in town that actually fish so they helped us out :) We ended up going to this little pond just in the foothills about 5 minutes from our house so it couldn't have been any more convenient. 

I kept telling Bradley over and over how sometimes you go fishing and you never even catch one fish. Sometimes you sit there for hours and hours and get nothing, sometimes you get nibbles, and sometimes you actually catch something - but that doesn't happen every time. You have to be patient and wait... a lot :) So what do you know - we get there, he does his first cast and the SECOND it hits the water it goes under and comes up with a fish!!! I've never seen anything like it - and there goes ALL the advise I had given him, he was probably thinking, "yeah right Mom, this stuff is easy!" :) It really was amazing :) And it was adorable how happy he was!

Next we got Gracie's pole ready and it wasn't too long until she caught one too :) I was really surprised. I had gone fishing several times when I was little and never had such good luck!

Sammie sure had fun watching everyone and playing in the dirt :)

It was a very successful fishing trip and I can't wait to go again! It started raining right at the end which cut it a little short, but that's ok - they both caught one fish and we threw them back and everyone was happy :)

Pretend fishing

For some unknown reason Bradley got obsessed with fishing. I have no idea why. We never talk about fishing, we have never gone fishing, who knows where it came from. This started before last Christmas because I got him a pretend fishing pole and he was super happy. So he decided that we should take the pretend fishing pole and head down the street to the little creek next to our house. I was explaining to him that it was not actually going to work, but we could try just for fun. It was pretty darn cute, so cute that it didn't take us long to go get actual fishing poles for actual fishing.