I’ll get a pole honey. You get a line I’ll get a pole dear. You get a line, I’ll get a pole, we’ll go down to the crawdad hole honey baby mine.

This was one of Tanner’s favs when he was 2 and we were singing it a couple of weeks ago on a perfect Sunday afternoon. We got manipulated into the trip by my darling brother Darin but it was well worth it.

Darin, the professional salesman of the group, went about calling every family member and inviting them on a little afternoon picnic. His end goal? He was in a fishing tournament and needing help catching crawdads for it. His method? Call everyone and tell them everyone else was going so everyone would think it was a BIG family event. He had to stretch the truth in those early calls but by the end he had hooked and baited the whole lot of us. I only discovered his treachery at church the next morning when Rob said “Did Darin “Brittany Spears” you too? When I inquired what that meant he explained that Darin has a way of getting people to attend his functions by name dropping all the other people who he is SURE will be there….LOL. Apparently “Brittany Spears” caught Rob’s attention at one time or another. To be fair to Rob that must have been a LLLLOOOOONNNNNGGGG time ago because now he has Miss Kat 🙂 .

At any rate, the plan worked and all of my siblings and nieces and nephews had a grand time at 7 springs catching crawdads. Okay…not EVERYONE was actually catching crawdads but we were all looking for them. Tanner wanted none of it, Noah wanted to catch them all, Karsyn thought they were icky, Zandi and Zane would do whatever their daddy did, and Ty just wanted to sit in the water. I tried to cowgirl up and teach Tanner to pick up the crawdads but I had to get private lessons first because I had the same fear Tanner did! In the end I DID pick up a crawdad but I never did convince Tanner it was a good idea. He was probably the smarter of us two. Then there is David…I don’t need to say more about him. Just look at the faceless picture in the Summer 2006 gallery and I’ll bet you’ll figure out who the nut is in quick order. I’ll just give that a big SSHHHEEEESSSHH!

All this to say…I have pictures of 7 Springs, some recent of my boys, and the shooting I did of Uncle Dave, Aunt Beck, Jarrod, Jamie, and Jenna added to the Summer 2006 picture gallery. Have fun!

(And yes Brooke – I’ll send you the pictures you asked for but I am having trouble with outbound messages the last two days. Anything with attachments isn’t sending. Also note to Susie – why I didn’t get Landen’s pictures to you yet).