Fall Break

Lorelei had off Thursday and Friday from school. It technically was not called fall break since I'm pretty sure that is just Thanksgiving now, but that's what I'm going to call it! :) Thursday was our last day at Vala's. I thought Friday needed to be something fun and fallish for our extra time together! It just so happened that Drue's mom told me about a great fall trail they got their pictures taken at earlier that week, so we had a new place to check out and it ended up being an absolutely wonderful morning exploring! 

We didn't get very far on the trail before happening upon this see-saw. My kids have a thing for see-saws, but rarely enjoy them much because of the size difference. Because of this design, they were actually able to see saw together! The added fun was that the bottom landed on a tire in the ground, so you could hit very hard and bounce each other up...so much fun and reminded me of my elementary school recesses! :) The smile on Makin's face was priceless.

Balance Achieved!!!

We finally headed on the rest of our walk. One of their favorite things was looking at the tree stumps and trying to figure out how old the tree had been. Makin usually thought they were 100 years old.

And amazingly, we ran into a full fledged park! It was so quiet and calm and felt like we were in the woods by a lake (we kinda were, but not sure if they really could classify as woods!) and the kids thought this was the best slide ever.

You know I like a scavenger hunt! We brought our buckets and our fall scavenger hunt check lists and they loved finding all kinds of extra treasures too.

And in case that wasn't a great enough day, we had a gorgeous evening, perfect for a hot dog and marshmallow roast in the backyard.

Saturday was a work day (giddy excited about more and more room in our storage area!), but Sunday was yet another perfect weather day to enjoy. I just cannot believe we have had such amazing summer and fall weather. Trying to soak it all in before winter hits! Sunday afternoon the kids enjoyed raking and jumping in the leaves. Still a lot more leaves to go from our big tree so I'm sure this was just a warm up.

And it was even warm enough to have some water/sand play! They did this all themselves. :) I was just in charge of "more water!" :)

Love these special weekends!!!