It was 70 degrees on Saturday!
After our chores (including cleaning out the garage, which was no small feat), we made a picnic lunch and enjoyed it outside on the deck.
Well, most of us enjoyed it anyway. Grace did not like her sandwich, and picked it into pieces, which she consumed separately. But the boys wolfed it down, just like always.
Then, because Grace had found a lady bug in her room and was extremely upset that we had to free it, we went to the Conservation Center to look for lady bugs.
Grace made a little pink tent out of paper for any lady bugs that she might find, to give them a home. We didn't find any, but we had a great time looking!
"Wow! These trees are BIG!"
We stopped by the river and found some good rocks to skip. There's not much my kids like better than to throw rocks in water. Keeps them busy for hours.
(looking for good ones...)
Then some dogs showed up (with their owners), and the kids took turns fought over who would throw sticks into the river for them to retrieve.
They thought it was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S
And then...
we tried to break our necks by climbing a weird tree.
Grace got herself into a predicament:
Andrew made it up in no time at all, until I barred him from going any further.
Since Grace was blocking the way, Joey tried it from the other side. But he found an opening in the tree that he thought was filled with disgusting eggs. I took a look and tried to convince him that it was just old dried up bark, but he was pretty sure it was disgusting eggs.
And a little farther down the path, Joey spotted what looked like some body's old Christmas tree, still with ornaments on it. We laughed, thinking about some old hobo out here in the middle of winter with a cute little Christmas tree.
