Fishing and Hiking

One of the days we went hiking we found tons of turtles on the logs in the middle of the lake. It was pretty amazing.


Maddie really likes to ride on my shoulders, which is fun, except that she feels like she needs to hold on with her hands, feet, and chin. The chin holding on is really kinda painful as she digs it right into my skull!
We took Maddie, Anders and their friends Jacob and Parly hiking today, they were all quite the goofs.

This was the cutest thing I have seen in nature in a while. These little duckies followed their mom right across the trail and into the water, with the mom quacking all the way to make sure she had them all.
How can you resist this cute face! The pool Anders is using was fashioned out of a good ol' stick, some fishing line we found by the lake and a rock tied to the end.
Today we watched as an older gentleman was fishing. He saw us watching him and asked if we wanted him to real a fish in. So he caught one and let Anders real it in and touch it! Probably the coolest thing that has happend to Anders up to this point in his life. I was almost as excited as he was!