Virginia with my friend!

My dear friend is in the Air Force. She is currently based in Virginia. I was able to take some time after Mrs. Payne passed away to fly out for a visit! We has such a lovely time:-) Here are some photos...

We went to Assateague Island, and had a wonderful time walking the beach. We saved a jelly fish, and saw wild horses! Then we went hiking near by, and saw a light house.

This was the sunset on the way home that evening. Gorgeous painting by God!!

We did allot of cooking while I was there. One evening we made fantastic pumpkin soup, and chapati bread!

Next I will post photos of our Creme Brulee making!!

Autumn. My favorite season.

{Lovely Fall photos}

Boys: slingshot

When you need a project for a little guy, this is easy and very entertaining! All you need is a Y shaped stick, 2 rubber bands, and something like fabric, felt, or in our case (they don't have fabric on hand) the top cut off from a zip lock bag:-) Oh, and some acorns for launching.

Preschool: A day with the little one

First we work on learning to read, with our good friends: Dick and Jane

We play games for math: Colors Bingo and Numbers Bingo

And art is essential: Painted popsicle sticks and acorns:-)

Preschool: Queen Anne's Lace experiment

I remember doing this when I would go to my Aunt's house for the cousin's sleepover each Summer! It's so simple, but it was always so exciting:-)

Pick a bunch of Queen Anne's Lace flowers.

Fill up cups of water, and add several drops of food coloring to each cup.

Then put in the stems of Queen Anne's Lace.

After a few hours (or a day) the flowers will have drunk the colored water

and will be the color of the food coloring!

So pretty:-)

Nature Walk

It was overcast all morning, and sprinkled just slightly. The kids and I decided to take advantage of the cool-ish weather and headed out for a walk! There's so much to see and learn in God's beautiful creation!

She loves to stop and pick pretty flowers:-)

These were growing on a tree, and she wanted a picture of them.

They like to pick these and throw them in the pond for the fish! (I hope we are not poisoning the fish!)

A worm (can you see it?) they rescued from the drive way, and put safely back in the dirt:-)

We came upon this giant spider web in a tree.

And then looked down to find a cool shaped mushroom.

The pond. A great place to sit and watch ducks and birds!

And you can hear all sorts of critters calling out to one another.

Bull frogs, various birds, crickets, cicadas. Such beautiful sounds!

Then we dissected this cat tail to see what the inside looked like!

Oh the wonders we will find when we go out of doors.

In Our Backyard: God's Lovely Artwork

This sweet little mushroom was growing alone by the tree.

They always make me think of playing with fuzzy animals.

Look at how intricate a mushroom is!

I've planted lots of strawberry plants, and look forward to enjoying their fruit!

Some of my favorite flowers in the garden:

This is my little flower garden in May (It has filled out quite a bit since then!):

How beautiful are your works, O Lord!