A JUNE BUG BIRTHDAY . . .

Last Saturday for Cody's birthday we went fishing on the back side of Lake Pleasant and then headed over to Lay & Cody's house to bbq and jam out to some live music!! All the kids and Daddy were very excited to go fishing and this was Rilyn's very 1st time fishing so on the way out there we stopped by WalMart where she picked out her very own Dora fishing pole and Trey, Rhett & Charlotte each got to pick out a new lure for their poles!! Then it was time for the infamous hike out to the water, my least favorite part!!

Clay & I, Cody & Lay, Brad & Noel ...

Rilyn & Aunt Lacey chillin in the water!!

Trey fishin!!

Rhett Fishin!!

Rilyn did so awesome for her first time and picked up the whole concept very quickly, in fact after a few cast's with Aunt Lacey's help, she began refusing any help and kept pushing Aunt Lacey's hands off the pole so she could do it all herself!!!

Fishing with daddy!!

Fishin with Aunt Lacey!!

Sooooo on to this picture ... hahahaaaaa ... did I mention the hike earlier ... ok well it sucks ... and then when you blow out a flip flop ... it REALLY SUCKS!!! So on our way back as I was crossing the water I completely blew out a flip flop that was in no way fixable (not even for my husband who can almost always come up with some way to fix everything) this left me with a long walk thru rocky terrain with one shoe ... after about 100 feet or so I knew I had to come up with something because my tender foot wasn't gonna make it all the way back on one shoe!! Then it occured to me that Rilyn's flip flops were in the 50 pound bag (hahaa) that Clay was carrying ... so I got her flip flop out, forced it onto my foot and hobbled my way back!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that a. Rilyn's flip flop would even go on my foot and b. that it would save the day!!!

After our adventurous fishing trip we got to enjoy some live music, dancing, good food & tons of fun at Aunt Lacey's house!! Happy Birthday Cody, ya ol' June Bug!!!