I just want to share a few pictures.  We went on a fun outing with my best friend and her boys on Thursday to a park with a waterfall.  It's just a trickle right now:

We had a great time.  The kids found salamanders, snakes, frogs and tons of fossils.  Hannah even caught  a snake.  Jonah got excited at one point, came tearing out of the stream bed yelling that he'd found a rock with heiroglyphics on it.  It was really sneaker tread marks, but we didn't tell him.  It was so cute.  He was beside himself.  I asked him how he thought a rock from Egypt got here and he said, "must've been during the flood, mom." 

After got home and had lunch, I had the kids write about their adventures in our Nature Notebooks.  Jonah taped in a snake skin and a fossil, too.

The public school kids got home early, so Hannah went trailriding with her friend, Ashley.  The other kids and I did some things outside.  Here's Susanna going to get eggs.

This is one of her favorite things to do.

Here she is on our swing.  We don't have normal swings.  This one has been here since we bought our property and there was nothing here.  It was the first thing we put here.  I was pregnant with Hannah when we bought this place.  She's now 11.

Here's Jonah on our other swing.  Susanna was so proud of herself for being able to push her big brother.  Pat plans to make some rope swing for the kids to stand on and swing from and hang them up in the trees in the woods, too.

After that, we picked some strawberries.  As soon as the berries are all picked, the plants in the paths are coming out.  I can't keep control of these little buggers.  I can't figure out how strawberry growers keep them under control and in such neat long rows.  Does anyone know?  Someday I want to help out at a fruit & veggie farm just so I can learn their secrets.

As you can imagine, Susanna's container didn't get very full.  And her face and fingers were stained red.  LOL.

It started to thunder, so we got to the house and I was concerned because the girls weren't back from their trail ride yet.   I know they have good heads on their shoulders, so I just prayed for their safety and a few minutes later, they came cantering across a hay field hurrying to get home.

I didn't get much else done around here.  I got the kitchen cleaned up cheesy onion bread made and a load of laundry.  But, what a great fun day we had!