Fishing with Graddy

Since the beginning of summer, the girls have been begging to go fishing. Dad's boat hadn't been out of the shop in about 2 years. Fishing was his and Moms favorite thing to do together, and since she hadn't felt like it the last 2 years, the boat hadn't seen water. 

So with a little begging from his girls.....

Ok- very little begging....

Ok. Ok. All we did was ask! 

Graddy took the boat for a tune up! But once it was finished, it started to rain. And rain. And rain! So it took forever- it serd- for us to get to go fishing! But finally, the weather cooperated, and we got to go! We went on a Sunday after church, which made it HOT! But we didn't care. We were on the boat with Graddy!! 

Of course the day we decided to go was the first beautiful weekend in weeks, so the marina was FULL. But we didn't care. The girls had on their fishing shirts and we were in the water! 

It was a bit crowded to fish, so we decided that a boat ride would do. We had so much fun! The girls really enjoyed it. Brenna wanted to go FAST. And Macie did not. At all. Every time Brenna hollered FASTER! Macie hollered NO!! But she was all smiles the whole home! 

Not gonna lie, it was hard for Dad and I to be on the boat without Mom. She enjoyed that boat so much. Nothing was said during the ride. But we both knew. Something was missing. SomeONE was missing. MeMawMom. But we went on. Not without her. But with her in our hearts. We did it because we both knew what was the most important thing to Mom. Seeing her girls have fun. So

dad and I did just that.... We watched her girls have fun. I think the pictures show just that....FUN! 

It takes w talented 5 year old to drive a boat! 

I think she enjoyed it. 

Graddy and his Shortcake and Tooter. 

It's hard to take a group selfie on a boat! 

Brenna was Graddy's sidekick the whole trip. 

I'm having a hard time with how old she looks these days. 

See!!!???? I love her so much. 

Graddy showed the girls how to sit on the edge and drag their feet in the water. 

There are no words to describe how much this Shortcake loves her Graddy. 

And there are definitely no words to fescribe hoe much I love my Daddy. 

It was a fun day. A hard day. But a fun day. I'm so thankful to be able to do fun things like this with my girls and my Daddy. It makes my heart happy. My heart hurts each time we do fun stuff like this because I know how much Mom would have loved to do this stuff with the girls. She loved to watch them have fun. But yet, it makes me happy to do stuff that I know would have made her smile. Her smile made ME happy. And each time we do stuff like this, I honestly feel her smiling. And my heart gets warm. It's like she's there in spirit. I love that. I know that one day in Jeaven she will tell me that she was with us on all of those days. On all the hard days, when I wanted her there so much, she was there. She saw it all. She felt the happiness and the joy that the girls experienced. I just know. And that makes it all ok. 

I seeore fishing days with Graddy in our future.