The Prank

Way back in January, our dear friends the Dickinson's decided to fill our yard with discarded Christmas trees. We had more than 15 trees standing up in our front yard. It smelled absolutely wonderful but what do you do with 15 trees? Well, you wait until the city comes to pick them up.
When the spring finally came we still had reminders of the prank from the millions of pine needles in our lawn.
So......

It was late one Wednesday night and we hatched a plan for payback!
We bought about 140 balloons and started blowing. Then on that Saturday at about 11:30 pm Steve went to their house and filled their van with the balloons.
Come Sunday morning they had a little chore to do before they were able to go to church.


And then there was this piece of pizza.......

Just Add Water

On a recent Friday, we decided to take a mini field trip to Heckrodt Wildlife Reserve to look at the Indian Artifacts and other things. This is Andy, Alena, Danelle and Noah inside a house made of birch bark.

The girls are holding drums and Andy is holding a turtle shell.

There was a tank with turtles and big fish and it was low enough for Livi to look into. I thought it was so cute when the turtle was stretching it's neck up to her and she was leaning in to him.

We walked through the whole building and then decided to go out for a walk on the trails. This is a photo off the boardwalk. We were able to spot 4 deer tramping through the woods as well. The kids were having a great time walking and just enjoying the outdoors when the drops starting to come......

First it was a light pitter-patter and that grew progressively worse and soon we were in a down pour! The little ones were in their umbrella strollers and the older kids were running ahead. I would shout " Turn Right!!". They would and we would run for a while down the slippery boardwalk and then " Turn Right!!!". We finally made it back to the building but we were all soaked. What a blast we had! I love playing in the rain.