Veteran's day!

So the night before Veteran's day...I was like "Hey...let's get out of the city and do something fun!" This was around 9 o'clock.  I think in the past my last minute lack of planning would have been shot down.  But my AMAZING husband jumped on board and we decided on a fishing trip...Payson AZ to be exact.  Jake got up early and packed the car and planned the food and made my idea a reality!!! 

We really had a magical day.  The drive was scenic and beautiful.  The creek or river was perfect.  Lucy kind of slept and all in all we had a wonderful day together as a family. 

The kids went exploring and found a huge rock. 

Lucy likes to feel big like the older kids! 

The kids were shocked to find big leaves.  We don't have any at our house.

 

We moved location 3 times on our trip.  We went to a canal type bridge and actually Jake threw the line in and within just a few minutes he felt a bite.  Weston caught the fish...but I didn't snap a pic until we were letting it go.  We thought for sure we would catch plenty of fish.  We could literally see 3 or 4 swimming around...never to bite on our line again.  Boo 

We went and got lunch...then ended up at a park/lake that was going to be stocked soon.  I guess it wasn't stocked yet...cause we never got a fish here.  Although...like before, we got our one and only bite within minutes of casting in the rod; only to never have another bite in the following hours.  We came home empty handed.

If you look really far....far in the background there was a flag flying in the breeze.  I just sat on this park bench and felt so much gratitude for our wonderful Country that we live in. I also felt a little bit of sadness. I don't talk politics much...hardly ever.  I just felt humbled and concern for freedoms.  At this point in time I don't think America is the America that our founding fathers and great grandpa's and grandpa's fought for. We have freedoms...we do... and I am grateful for them...but we are losing so many things that make America great.  We are losing MORALITY...We are giving up freedoms because of this. I pray that our children will have the same freedoms we have...and we won't continue to give them up. 

I want this kiddos to ALWAYS have the right to live their religion...raise their families how they want...and to be Happy!!! I want them to be truly free.