A visit from our southern friends - Part III

The final installment of our visit involves a trip to a local goat farm! Click here to read all about it.

A visit from our southern friends - Part II

To read about the fun Ooblech experiment we did with our friends, click here.

A visit from our southern friends - Part I

Click here to read part one of the great time we had from our southern Indiana friends' visit back in March.

Pretzel Makers

Our friend Kali helped us make some delicious homemade pretzels this week. The girls had a great time in the kitchen with me.



It was hard to wait, but it was SO worth it:

Loving this weather

Yesterday was THE most perfect fall day! Sunny and upper 60's, dry and gorgeous. I decided to take the girls on a nature hike and do some of our homeschooling outdoors. We sat on a bench, read about frogs and then went looking for some in the creek.


After reading, we learned that frogs like to come out at night, and they do hibernate during the winter, so we didn't see any. But that didn't stop the girls from enjoying the walk and looking for holes that frogs might be sleeping in.


We had a picnic lunch with our friends Julie, Ethan and Ryan. After lots of running around, the kids got to make a pumpkin mask craft at the Nature Center.


It was one of those fun days that makes me glad to be a stay-at-home mom. :-)

Crop - Paper - Scissors

This past weekend was a special treat for me. I got to spend it with four of my best friends, doing one of my favorite things - scrapbooking!
Kristi, Dionne, Jen and I packed my mini-van to the max and drove down to spend the weekend at Lisa's house. We had the house to ourselves, as Mike and the boys spent the weekend with grandparents.

It was SO much fun! We scrapped 68 pages (is that right, ladies?) during our time, and had a blast doing so. Lots of girl-talk, inside jokes and laughter occurred. One of Lisa's friends stopped by Saturday night to join in. When we asked her if she thought we were all crazy, she paused and said, "no, but you do seem to be very comfortable with each other." :-)

I thank God for these good friends with whom I can just be myself around. We love each other unconditionally. That's a good weekend! Thank you again, Doug and all the men for taking good care of all the kiddos while we were gone. It meant SO much.
Hard at work:

Kristi kept us warm:

Precious Friends: