Family Sunday: Crawdad Hunting

Last week for family day, we went to the same camping spot as we had on this camping trip. I'm not sure if Hunter suggested it to Perry, or Perry suggested the idea of crawdad hunting to Hunter, but either way, if you haven't already, you can read a pretty humorous chat about it at the dinner table the night before on this Monkey Shiner Babblings. Got to love JP...

Anyways! Our plan was to surprise Grandma and bring her along with, but when we arrived at the cabin, she was no where to be found...because she was in Whitefish. Instead we went to the Chicken Coop and had a late lunch before heading out to the creek.

 It was SO calm and peaceful out there! And the weather was perfect too! Not too hot, but hot enough that river water felt good. 

 Before I could even get Charli out of the car Perry and Hunter were already on the hunt for crawdads. Hunter was SO excited! Flip over that one, dad!

 JP thought the idea of crawdad hunting was fun, but the reality of it was not. I mean, you have to get wet and put your feet in cold water... I just keep thinking back to the other week when we went fishing and Hunter was practically swimming in the river. JP is on the shore in ankle deep water going, "it's getting pretty deep over here..." I don't want to call him a baby...but he did sit on this rock for quite sometime!

 Charlotte on the other hand was ALL about the water. I didn't think she wouldn't be, after all she can spend an hour in the bathtub if you let her!

 With little hesitation, she plopped herself down and had a blast splashing around! She was so cute to watch!

 She even got a little adventurous and attempted to climb out of the little rock pool.

 It seriously melts my heart every time I see Perry and Hunter doing things like this together. I feel like most of their relationship is them fighting with one another, so I am always a blubbery mess when they interact without fighting. Not to say that they fight all the time, but Hunter has a way with pushing the rules to their limits and Perry is a this-is-how-it's-going-to-be kind of person. They're both leaders- Hunter is like a mini Perry so they kind of clash a little...but anyways...

 After about half an hour of hunting the river for crawdads, they finally brought back two. Although I tried to stop them, Hunter and JP had a lot of fun with these little guys....at one point they were whirling around at a high speed. I'll assume that even though we freed them before we left, they probably didn't make it much longer...

 We're trying *really* hard to take more pictures of the two of us, since we only have a handful...

 Look at this girl! Isn't she just the cutest thing?! She played in the little river pool for at least half an hour and she loved almost every minute of it!

 Before we packed up, Perry took the boys to the island in the middle of the river to look for frogs. They found one and Hunter was able to pick it up. Scared the daylights out of him when it jumped out of his hands! JP hung back by dad for the majority of the search...

 Pretty big pool huh?

 Since we forgot to drive back into Seeley to go to The Ice Cream Place, we hit up Dairy Queen on the way home and brought it to our favorite park to eat. 

 Napkin anyone?

Thanks Google for this video of JP too...

 Charli strutted her stuff around for a little while before hitting up the swings.

She LOVES to swing!