Rainy Day Race

The Racetrack...

The Contestants...

The Spectators...

The Race...

The Winner...

Little Movie Stars...

Here's the cover of the latest movie production....

a stirring saga about a true love snatched away from her man

only to be returned by a repentant bad guy.

full of action and forgiveness;-)

Treasuring Hunting...

There is an old dump in the woods.

It has brought hours of fun.

I have four little treasure hunters there now...

41.  Treasure hunters on a mission...

42.  Treasures brought home after an expedition yesterday...

43.  Little girls and old broken kittens...

 44.  Big brothers digging...

45.  Old blue bottles...

What To Do On A Warm Winter Day?

I could feel it in the air that morning...

warmth...68 degrees ...
We couldn't pass on this opportunity.
So gathering the swimsuits and water shoes for the girls...
Mud boots for the boys...
A loaf of bread and some peanut butter for a picnic...
We were off to explore our new favorite park.
We have recently found this great little park hidden away from a busy road.
It's only five minutes from the house.
The boys think this is the best park ever!
Because it has....

A creek for wading and exploring...

And a playground for swinging and climbing...

The Muddy Place...

This is the name given to the ditch that runs at the bottom of the hill in the pasture.

It's rather like a creek especially after a rain...

The ditch that my little boys found one day after we had moved back to the farm.

My little boys...three and four..who wondered off without telling me...in the cool rain...

I frantically call daddy...they're not familiar with the farm yet...where do you think they could be?

Daddy getting ready to come home from work to look for them...when here they come all wet and muddy...

We were not lost...Boo informs me...I knew right where we were...

So it has always been called the muddy place around here...

looking under the surface of the water through a pipe...
catching tadpoles...

walking across logs...

sawing branches...

building forts and ships...

Today the girls wanted to tag along...so mommy went for a little walk to the muddy place...

and we learned all about it from the guys...

Miss LouLou posing at the muddy place with her cowboy boots:-)

Sometimes You Just Need To....

Spend some time outside on a beautiful afternoon...

sitting on a blanket...feeling the breeze

basking in the sun...

riding bicycles...listening to mommy cheer you on...

jumping a rope much too long...while chanting rhymes...

pretending you are camping out and these two tigers are after you...

enjoying each other...

Happy Birthday, Sweet Boy

This sweet boy turns six today...

We started the day with a birthday treasure hunt...

Daddy left a trail of clues before leaving for work...

Oh what fun it was...

Big brother helped read the clues...

The last clue led to just what you had wished for...

A new bicycle!

Six Things I Love About You...

I love the way you always ask if you can help me with whatever I am cooking.

I love to watch you fix things.

I love that you still sit in my lap and give lots of hugs.

I love to watch you play with your little sisters.

I love to see your excitement when you recognize a word you know in new places.

I love smell the top of your head when we hug.

Train Depot Fun

After Earlyworks we headed over to the train depot.  We took a tour of the building itself.  The building was captured by Union forces during the Civil War and the top floor was made into a prison.  There is still graffiti that the confederate soldiers left while in the prison on the top floor.


After the tour we took a trolley ride, looked inside a locomotive, passenger car, boxcar and a caboose.  We also played at the Little Toot's Depot and explored a garage with old cars and a fire engine.  We loved our time at the depot and we will definitely be going back on a cooler day so the littles have lots of time to play outside.

exploring the locomotive...lots of things to push and pull...makes real train sounds too

Earlyworks....Fun...Fun...Fun

This year we decided to visit some places around home when Chris was off of work for vacation.  I had heard about Earlyworks when I taught school but I had never visited before, so we decided to take the littles one day. We bought a year membership because it would have been more for our large family to just visit for the day.
We went back for our second trip Saturday and we had so much fun!  Chris and I love love love these museums and so do the littles.  Here are some pictures of our fun time...

There is dressing up...log cabins...a wagon...boat...dollies

tree house...water play...general store

Daddy did a great job with the pictures...the black and white shots were perfect

and finally....