October Adventures

Today was fun. We babysat a couple of friends in the morning which lead to lots of playing. Legos were of course present and games of hide and go seek were enjoyed. After our friends left, we loaded up the kids and went to the Springs Preserve. We had hoped to take in the butterfly exhibit, but were 5 minutes too late. I wanted to see where the exhibit was anyway, and check out what had been done in the gardens.

We walked down and found that we were just in time to take a guided tour of the gardens. It was fun to have a docent take us around and explain the plants to us. The kids were more excited about all the Halloween decorations.

Sitting a listening to the water and looking for birds. Mostly, taking a much needed leg break.

One of the hard things about taking the kids to places like this is: they really want to pick all the flowers! Or at least touch them all! Thank heavens for daddy! He kept Ephram safe while exploring the roses.

After the tour and seeing all the amazing possibilities for pictures, I begged my  family to walk through the garden one more time and let me pose them... they were good sports mostly. Here are some of the results:

 

 

 I saw the light on Riley's face as we were getting into the elevator. I know I made Allen a little crazy when I stopped and took this picture, but the light was just TOOOO perfect to waste!

This one is an outtake! These faces are just too much!

  

These tiles were really interesting. Every panel is different. Riley really liked the one with fossils in it. Dinosaurs are kinda his thing. 

 

Ephram just loves Emma right now. He wants to do everything with her. It's really sweet.

Leaving the Preserve. Only a few tears of being tired. (Emma cried and whinnied the whole way back to the car) They closed today at 4 to set up the Haunted Harvest.

My little people now think that they can handle spooky and want to check it out. We will see. 

I took them to an exhibit about wicked plants a couple of weeks ago. It was all set up for spooky Halloween fun. Riley and Emma both had nightmares about it for a week.

Fun weekend and making memories. Working on those talents.