Oh, I am so wanting a day like this . . .

The kids had a lesson at Sunday School about “planting seeds” for people; Ezra came up with the idea of a lemonade stand and we could put verses wrapped around the cups.  We picked out some verses, bought some cups & lemonade, and called a friend who lives in the front of the sub where there is a lot more traffic–her kids were all in too:)  We set up shop at about 3pm when it was hot and people were starting to get home from work.

It was quite a success, everyone read the verses, some even had a short discussion.  We don’t know what kind of impact was made but I was excited for Ezra to apply the Sunday School lesson in a way that he could.

Mostly, the clients were neighbors that we knew and we got several landscape workers!  And, don’t worry, I was always right there.

 

Tobin gets every speck of whatever he’s eating, and he frequently looks like this . . .

Check out the chin, it’s from sticking his whole face into the ice cream bowl;)

For Mari day we went “Letterboxing” like geo-caching but you follow clues instead of coordinates.

This one started out easier because it’s a park we visit a lot so I knew where all the initial landmarks were

Ezra, looking super excited about finding it!

And, as an incentive to those not as enthusiastic about it, we always get ice cream afterwards

No, we didn’t have some special frigid winter access, this is from August!

Love this place and couldn’t wait to share it with the whole family (our first time all here together)

Mari & Ezra going on the Windseeker, I can’t do “swing” things anymore and this is like a swing 30 stories high-no thanks!  But they loved it.

Tobin wanted me to ride the little rides with him, I don’t really care for these anymore but for him & that sweet smile, I’ll suffer

There were virtually no lines, but the sad thing — I was getting headaches during the roller coaster rides, this is new for me and made me not want to ride as many times as we could have.  So, we felt like we had enough before it closed (also not like me at all), and got some swimming in at the hotel water park that night.

We did some more water park in the morning and then headed out.

The silliness . . . we stopped at a little animal park, cheese at it’s best!  They gave us a bag of feed and sent us out back into a gravel, fenced in parking lot looking thing–oh, and warned us that the deer would try to steal the bags;)

Looking for more

And, then Tobin started running and they started chasing

So funny, Tobin was cracking up laughing

Love these creatures, kept adjusting my angle to get rid of the fencing & buildings

This sweet little thing was making us laugh too, he was the tiniest goat

and he kept picking fights with everyone

they had a stocked fish pond that you could fish in too

Stopping for ice cream

This guy was waiting for us at the table