This is Aaron's friend Joe. They became friends when they were both stationed at Camp Lejeune. They hadn't seen each other since they got out of the marines over 15 years ago....until Joe and his family moved to the Houston area a few months ago. We met him and his wife for a session at the temple last December, and then went to dinner with them afterwards. We decided that we need to get together as often as we can since they are so close to us now. But since Joe's family was out of town for a few weeks, he decided to make a trip over here for a quick visit without them.
So we took him to our favorite place to hangout......Holly Beach. John David wasn't very into it when we first got there. He just wanted to wrap up and sit back and relax a little while in the camp chair.
The sky was nice and clear.....until we got to the beach........and then we were surrounded by fog. Aaron put on his waders and went out a little ways to throw some fishing lines out.
Got went a little too far.....and a wave got him a little wet. And apparently he didn't learn from that, because he got completely soaked the next time he went out.
This was the first time we have been fishing at the beach, and the girls were pretty interested in how it worked.
John David finally decided to get up and play in the sand.
And eventually he decided that he wanted to check out the fishing scene too.
He's the cutest fisherman ever!
And we finally caught something.
But he wasn't a keeper. In fact, we threw back
everything we caught. All three of them.
The highlight of the day was watching these three trying to get the soaking wet waders off of Aaron. It took about fifteen minutes. So. Stinkin. Hilarious.
And we couldn't go home without making some smores first.
Good times.
