"She Thinks We're Just Fishing"

I love that song by Trace Atkins. She thinks they're just fishing but doesn't realize the bonding that's going on between a father and his daughter.

A couple of weeks ago, Jason thought we should take Katelyn to the local fishing pond. Basically it's a big cement pond in town that they stock with fish. It's not the cleanest fishing spot and you might not want to eat the fish you catch, but it's easy to get to.
Very serious face equals fish, right?

And sometimes it was Daddy who was more into it than the prodigy.
Her first catch!

We didn't stay long but I think it was fun for her and just fun for us watching her.

"I He-ope"

Sometimes trying to spell what you hear just isn't as cute as hearing it from that sweet little mouth it comes out of. This is a common phrase I hear throughout the day. I have a little helper in my K and I love it. Sometimes it's more help than what I would like, but I don't want to discourage her. She helps with taking the groceries out of the cart in the check out, sometimes with making the bed or cooking. This girl loves to cook. "I cook, mommy I cook". It can be as simple as opening the package of instant oatmeal and dumping it and the water in the bowl.

She is a Daddy's girl too! She loves to help her Daddy do whatever it is he is doing. Yesterday was an errand day for Jason and I got him to take Katelyn along. It's not fair that I always have to take her and he just goes, so it was his turn to have a Daddy/daughter day. It left me a lot of time to clean and cut up a batch of salsa. They stopped to talk to someone and K got to pet their kitties and horses and puppies, much to her excitement. They checked out Jason's future patrol car, which needs a lot of work before it's in working order. They ended their date with lunch at Mickey D's for a cheeseburger. I was just happy to see them spend some quality time together. She is at such a fun stage.

This was from a couple of weeks ago, when she thought she had to help mow the lawn. It was a very windy day as you can tell by her hair.

Horseless

My dear Emma is no longer part of our family. As of September 19th, she now belongs to another family that is just in love with her, which is good to hear. I will still look at the pen that was her home for so many years, as I drive by our friends place. We sold Jason's horse this past spring and knew that we weren't doing Emma justice by not having used her much in the last 2 years since we've had Katelyn. It's harder when you don't live on the same place as your horses and you have small children. It's been especially hard this summer with jason working shift work and having no time to go out and do anything. So, we decided a while ago that we needed to say goodbye and get out of a winter burden of feeding something we weren't using to the fullest. Plus, with feed going up this year, it was another expense.

Katelyn has just gotten to the age where she loves to ride too. The past 2 weeks, we've had to go out every night to doctor Emma since she cut her foot on some barbwire. We got Katelyn to sit on her back, grab hair and hang on. She loved the short rides she would get from the pen to the barn and back and Emma did good with her. Of course we were right beside her holding K and leading Emma.

We know enough people that have horses that I don't think we'll have a problem finding something for Katelyn to get on occasionally. One day, if God chooses to bless us with some acreage, maybe we'll get some more ponies.