Fun In Our Own Front Yard

2 weeks ago we got a phone call from Jonnet (Clint’s mom) asking for advice on crawdad fishing. Evidently, there were 3 neighborhood girls there who were too shy to ask Clint, so they had Jonnet do it for them! A few minutes later, the 3 giggly girls showed up on our doorstep asking for help.

So we took a trek out to the ditch in front of out house and he started to show them how it’s done. He didn’t think there would actually be any, but they got a nibble on their first hot dog in the water! Clint got down on his belly, slowly pulled the bait up and quickly snatched the crawdad and flung him on the bank! (Scared the wazoos out of those girls!) First, “You mean we have to TOUCH it?! Gross!!!” Then, “We caught one! We caught one!” They had a bucket ready for their new pet and even though we got a few more bites, in the end they all had to share the one crawdad. (Not for a lack of trying! They came back every day for a week!) Madison found more pleasure in throwing rocks in the water and making it splash, too cute!

We’ve also been having a lot of windstorms lately, and our poor beautiful elm tree out front is not handling it very well! We’ve lost 2 HUGE branches so far, and a lot of little ones. What’s amazing is that both times the wind was blowing away from our house so the branches were blown away from us instead of on us. To add to that, when the first branch fell we had been washing Jonnet’s car and still had to do the inside. She had taken it home and so we finished it up there instead of bringing it back to our house. The first branch landed exactly where her car had been parked (and probably would have hurt Maddie and me)! The second branch fell where Madison and I had been playing just 5 minutes before, but had gone inside to get a drink! Talk about guardian angels! I guess we’re doing SOMETHING right! :) Madison was so funny helping Clint pull the second branch out of our grass, she was grunting like it was SO strenuous! I was dying laughing! What a drama queen!

I got the funniest thing in the mail yesterday. Back in high school, our seminary teacher had us write letters to ourselves in 5 years. We did it every year and I swear, I’m just as big a dork now as I was then! It was hilarious reading those letters with Clint! I’m just SO glad I didn’t go off on idiotic tangents about who I was “so in love with” at the time I wrote each letter! They weren’t nearly as ridiculous as I thought they would be, just funny as all get out. Some letters had notes from friends written on there and made it so fun to remember the good ole days at my alma mater.

We are leaving for Havasupai tomorrow! I am SO nervous! We’ll pack today when Clint gets home and I saved all my cleaning for tomorrow so I don’t go crazy waiting for him to get off work! I’m a little anxious to leave Madison, we’ve left her so many times this summer and it gets harder each time instead of easier! I’m afraid she might really freak out this time! I guess we’ll see. We’ll post pictures when I’m able to move my muscles again! Until then, pray we don’t hike off a cliff or drown in a flash flood! Toodles!