Saturday Fun Day

So what did we do that was fun? Well, we went to the San Antonio Botanical Garden. Oh it was so much fun. The weather was perfect. Not too hot and not cold. This is the first time that I took pictures with the boys in a very long time. I normally just take pictures but it was time for me to come out in pictures too. What you see in the background is the Tower of the Americas.

What was there? They had model trains. Now talk about perfect for the little train engineer in our house. It was nice although the train section was too small and they already had christmas decorations up.

There was these large leaves. They were from a tree called the Chinese Parasol Tree. Those leaves sure were huge.

Not only leaves but they also had a Japanese area. Of course, my baby wanted a picture at the little bridge. He is so cute. He loves to be in pictures. I'm glad one of the boys don't give me trouble when it comes to being in pictures.

There were so many nice things in this garden that it is very hard to decide which pictures to show. I took 86 pictures here. This is really a nice place to go for a field trip. I know what will be one of our field trip places for our small homeschool group.

There was also what they call Terrific Treehouse. They were these structures that the kids loved to play in. There were 9 treehouses on the grounds.

Now this botanical garden is a 33 acre garden. We could have spent all day there letting the boys explore. We didn't get to see everything because we were not expecting it to be so big. Next time we will be prepared.

Don't forget to click on the pictures to see them up close.

Nature Studies

We have decided to do a tree study a while back and never got around to it. This week we finally did it. I made a notebooking page for our tree study and that is what we used along with the book Handbook of Nature Study. We still have to do one more thing. I want them to take the boys outside to do a tree rubbing but I'll wait till the mosquitoes die down some.
I loaded up those pages on the Homemade Homeschool group. Along with the following one about hummingbirds.
Since we have had a ton of hummingbirds at our house I had to make a notebooking page for them and read up on them.
As you can tell these pages are pretty easy for the kids of all ages to do. I want them that way because I do have a little one and then the older ones. Even if you don't have hummingbirds you can still read up on them and have some nature time with the kids. Did you know that a hummingbird nest is about the size of half a walnut? Amazing isn't it!

Our Trees

Look at our trees that we planted a few weeks ago. The oranges on it are getting bigger and it looks like they like where we put them.
Can't wait to try our lemons! It's still a baby tree but can't wait to try these few lemons anyway.

I think I'll only be able to make one or two pitchers of lemonade with this batch. What do you think?

Vacation-Trees

Can you believe all those flowering trees? We went to visit family in Kansas and as we drove into Wichita at 4am we saw what looked like snow on the street. I wondered if it was snow but then I saw that the temperature was in the lower 60's and I knew it wasn't. What it was that looked like snow was the fallen small flowers from all the trees. I had never seen so many different kinds of flowering trees. It was so amazing and I had to take lots of pictures to share.

The weather was wonderful too but we are home again and it's back to hot and humid Texas. I would love to move somewhere with less humidity and cooler weather. Any suggestions of where to move?

Our Fun Vacation

It was a nice time! Very refreshing and relaxing. We went to Lake Conroe and stayed at the most amazing resort. It had a full kitchen so we had a wonderful and freshly prepared breakfast each morning. Did I say we had a great time? Oh and the hot tub and jacuzzi in our room....aaaahhhhh.

So after relaxing and watching movies in the room we decided to visit this state park. We went on a nature trail and saw some neat things. I will share this about trees. There were so many and everything was green. It was neat to see the bark and different types of branches. Take a little look at what we saw.

I will try to share a little more of our vacation in the coming weeks. For now I have to get some sleep. That 12hr drive home is a doozy.