Happy Father's Day

Today was Dad's Day and our Dad got adequately spoiled.

He wanted a stereo for our living room. He got it even though I didn't want any more noise in my house.

The kids wanted to take him fishing. That was a little tougher to pull off. While I am fairly proficient with a fishing pole, I had no idea where all of our gear was much less where we could go fishing with the two hour time frame that we had today to get it done.

So I spilled the beans to my husband (the kids had wanted to surprise him). Well, his face lit up and he was off. He spent a good hour happily tooling around in the livingroom putting line on poles and whatever else it is that you need to do to "prepare" to go fishing. He asked me if I could pull together a picnic dinner (whew...as long as I don't have to gut or clean a fish I'm good on the food end!) and away we went.

Fishing is big sport in the lovely (albeit HOT) state of Arizona and they have something called an Urban Fishing Program. That means that they put lakes in public parks and then they stock those lakes with fish!! Right on! It's not exactly a trip to the great wilderness but it only took us 10 minutes to get to a nice grassy area with lighting and bathrooms (not to mention a splash park and playground!!) where we could "take Daddy fishing!"

So, picnic packed, fishing gear in tow, a trip back to the house for chairs and a blanket to sit on and we were on our way! We had a great time and what's better the kids caught fish! They were three inch Redear Sunfish and we threw them all back but they CAUGHT something!

Now they are so psyched to go to Mammoth next week I'm not sure I'll be able to scrape them off the ceiling until we put them in the car.

It was a good day.

I hope you got to spend today building some memories with someone. Life is too short not to.

Happy Father's Day!