Category Archives: park
Our Wonderful Waterways class
The kids took a class the other day at Forest Park! They spent the morning at Missouri’s first fish hatchery. It is no longer in operation but it’s neat to think about how, so many years ago, fish 🐠 were scooped into milk jugs and transported by train 🚂 across the state to various lakes …
Eagle watching… and an up close and personal owl!
We went to an official eagle watching event today at Fort Bellefontaine. They had a telescope set up directed at both a mature bald eagle and a juvenile eagle. 🦅 The eagles were across the river about a mile away… so there was no way I could get a picture! <<<<<<<<<<<< ❤️❤️ We did see …
Barefoot Baseball ⚾️
Josh suggested that, after church, we go play baseball at the park… and before I could say no, he enticed me with these sweet words, “You can play barefoot!” How could I say no LOL 😆!! Yesterday we bought the kids wooden bats at a garage safe for $1 each! We bought the bats with …
Mystery Pond
Simone and I went to Cadette-Camp-a-Rama (Girl Scout Camp) this past weekend! While Simone was off with her friend being independent, I assisted at the Mystery Pond! What’s Mystery Pond? It’s a very healthy pond that the girls get to explore using nets and scoops! *I know it looks like poison ivy at the bottom …
Beavers at Sioux Passage
We went on a very chilly hike today to a park by the Missouri River, Sioux Passage. It felt great to be outside… …but we became truely excited when we saw signs of beavers! Finding trees that have been chewed on by a beaver left us awestruck! Seeing the teeth marks and the wood shavings …
Dangerous Boys
Since the beginning of the school year, I’ve been co-leading a boy’s group dubbed The Dangerous Boys. My partner in crime, Heather, and I decided to start a homeschooler’s boy’s club so our boys could have a group to belong to. We meet twice a month and try to learn things, make things, and have …
Did you fall into a mud puddle??
My husband came home from work today to muddy shoes lining the walkway… And he asked me, “What happened today? Did you fall into a mud puddle?” “Kind of?!” I replied… 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 It started as a hike into the woods with our neighbor… First they found a toad 🐸 (Who needs a bug catching box …
Wild Acres Park
We went to Wild Acre park with the challenge of finding more wild flowers than my sister, Sonja, and her family did. We ended up discovering way more than just beautiful flowers!! 🌺 Sonja had sent me a text the other day with some photo collages of 20 wild flowers she had found on a …
Missouri Botanical Gardens 🌸🌺🌳🍃
We went to the Missouri Bitanical Gardens today with my parents and some cousins – and had a fabulous time 😊 We were there for 4 hours and walked a total of 5 miles! We obviously saw many beautiful flowers… From water lilies to Crown of thorns, and Venus fly traps! We saw one adorable …
A swinging FUN time 🌳
The next best thing to climbing up a tree is swinging from a vine! Edison swinging… Simone swinging… Andre swinging… Elijah swinging… Me 😳 The kids continued playing “rescue” on the vine by swinging onto the fallen log and rescuing each other! This lasted over an hour! We only …
Becoming a Wild Family 