Forever and Always Daddy's Little Girl

            When I was younger, I used to go ice fishing with my dad all of the time. My dad was my best friend, he still is to this day, we just don’t spend as much time together as we used to. I’d always be at his hip, we would always build things together, and work on his old truck together. At the old house we used to live at, my dad and I built this huge two story play house, and we built a shed for my dad together. Now my grandma lives in that house, and we live in a new house. I began to get older and I didn’t always want to spend time with my dad, which I now realize was a huge mistake on my part. Now that I have school, work, and a boyfriend there’s rarely ever a day where I’m at home with my family.

            So last winter I decided I was going to try going ice fishing again, after I haven’t gone since I was around 10ish. My dad, brother, and I got everything together and we went out and spent the day on the ice together, and it was a blast! I’m so glad that I got to make time to go spend with these guys. We ended up going out on the ice every weekend that my dad had off, and if we really wanted to go we went after he got home from work a couple of times. Whenever we went out we really didn’t catch much, but a few perch here and there. We seen a couple good sized walleye one time, but they were not interested at all. There were even a couple of times this past winter to where my dad and I just got to go out on the ice together. That was a lot of fun, my dad is so great to talk to he’s so understanding, and he always has the best advice.

            This upcoming winter I am going to do my best to go ice fishing with my father, because it is something we can both enjoy and we also get to spend some quality time together. My family only had the chance to take the boat out once this summer, so that’s why I’m really looking forward to ice fishing because its not as hectic as it is trying to get everything ready for the boat. When you go ice fishing you just have to get a few things together and throw it in the back of the truck, while taking the boat you have to worry about the boat and the boat motor and just way too many things.

            From all of this, I’ve learned to not take the little things in life for granted, because some day all of these little memories will be all that I have. No matter how old I am, and where I end up in life I will always be daddy's little girl, and I am absolutely okay with that.  

  

These are just some pictures of my dad and I throughout the years, showing how silly our relationship is, he is and always will be my best friend. 

Life is Better With a Fishing Partner

                I started going out with this guy, Levi, before school got out. On one of our first dates he took me fishing. I knew right there that this was the start of something great. We both love fishing so much, and it is so wonderful to just be able and get out of the house and go enjoy something together. Sometime this past June, we had a day planned to go fishing together. At the last minute he texted me and asked if our friend Damon could join us, I didn’t mind because Damon is a really funny guy. So Levi came over and picked me up, then we went and got Damon. Now it was time to go fishing, Levi decided that we were going to fish in that pond down the road from my house. May I remind you, this was a weekend after we got quite a bit of rain. So Levi parked the truck on the side of the road, and we started walking into the woods to get back to this pond. Everyone had their fishing poles in their hands and we were excited to fish. We got further into the woods, and now there was just mud and water almost up to our knees!

Now, the boys both had boots on so they didn’t care too much but I only had on tennis shoes because I didn’t own a pair of boots yet! It was so terrible trying to walk through this mud and water, it was quite the walk back to the pond to begin with! We finally made it back to the pond, the boys were perfectly fine but my shoes were soaked and my pant legs were all wet. We started fishing, and it was really hot out this day. Nobody was catching anything after about ten minutes, so the boys decided that we were going to give up and go check out the big mud bog at Big Bends Campground. I couldn’t believe that after our long horrifying walk out there, we only stayed there for about fifteen minutes. Then we had to walk all the way back out to the truck! It was a fun day though, just hanging out with friends, laughing, and joking around. It was a great day, which I will never forget.

                After that day, Levi and I would go fishing almost all the time. We’d go fishing on the pond at the end of my road, the one at the end of Kitchen road, and we even went fishing off the dock at the bay in Pinconning. I really love going fishing with him, it brought us so much closer together. We would go out, and we would just talk for hours about anything and everything! I’m so glad to have met such a wonderful guy, and the fact that we have so much in common makes everything better! It’s so wonderful that we both get to share all of these wonderful fishing experiences together. I’m very lucky to have the world’s best fishing partner, now I just can’t wait to go out and go ice fishing together this winter!