Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

That's what Aaron's been singing all week. Okay, not really, but he is has talked about how much he is going to miss us everyday this week and has been quite pitiful. So we've been doing some fun things together before we leave for our trip next week. Wednesday night he took us all out for ice cream at one of our favorite ice cream places, Winkydoo's, which is always a fun treat.

The girls like to get the "rainbow" flavor and as you can see, they REALLY enjoyed it.

Thursday Aaron got done with work early and went to the waterpark with us, which is always more fun when he is there. And today he took us out to Choupique Bayou for a boat ride and a little fishing. We all had so much fun. For the first 20 minutes we were having no luck, which prompted Katie to ask the question of the day. "Why do they call it fishing if you don't catch any fish?"

Good question Katie. So Aaron moved us to a new spot and we hit the jackpot--or maybe it was the fish who hit the jackpot.

I made the first catch of the day, but he was a little on the small side, so we threw him back. Then Sarah caught another perch and she was so excited. He was even smaller than mine, so we threw him back too.

She said, "Awww, he's so cute." She even wanted to throw him back all by herself. Then Aaron caught a nice perch, and we kept him.

We caught 5 nice perch, but then they just started eating out worms off of our hooks. Aaron told me it was because I wasn't 'threading' the worm on right. So I let him do the next one for me and the same thing happened. I think it was a conspiracy by that little school of perch. They let us catch a few to make us think we were going to load up, but then they just started eating our bait before we could catch 'em. Those stinkers were fast. Then they must have gotten full because they stopped biting at all. But it was fun while it lasted. Sarah loved every minute of it.

She even loved playing with the worms. If someone would say they needed a worm, she would say, "I'll get it for you."

Katie was not as excited about the worms though.

Between the three of us, we kept Aaron pretty busy. This is what he was doing most of the time.

He was either untangling fishing lines, baiting hooks, or helping cast. I felt bad for him and asked if he had a good time. He said he had a great time, and so did we. We're gonna miss you pretty bad too honey.