Thursday, September 29, 2011

Botanical Gardens

Since the botanical gardens were having a military special this month, I really wanted to take the kids. And I'm so glad I did because they had a great time!






There were so many cool veggies to see growing!

Markus was a wild boy!





There was some exciting wildlife too!







We were so thrilled to have our friends join us too!








There was a really cool miniature train.

And an art table.







There is also a dinosaur digging area. Which Markus was thrilled about because he just started roaring!





We brought our own monkeys!

Markus was starting to get tired about halfway through.

But he kept on going.

Such fun plants.

Musical instruments.

There was an awesome fort builder!



A cool pretend play area!



This fireplace is so beautiful, I want one!

We had some great builders.







Also great climbers.

There was an awesome tree house.





We were starting to push our luck after a bit.

But then he got a second (or third) wind.



The last thing we did was play in the stream with the boats.

It was such great fun!



Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Family Shooting Day!

Today we went out to the gun range, just us!! Markus was excited. There's so much to explore!
Joli thought the ear covers were funny.



Joli was a big helper with Markus too!



So fun to do things with daddy!





Markus wasn't all that thrilled that he had to wear his ear covers.

Then it was time to shoot.

The kids sat at the table and played mostly.

It's fun to sort and stack and play with bullets.

Markus didn't quite get the concept behind loading the gun.

Joe made sure to show us how it's done.

I rarely missed a shot!

Joli asked if she could shoot too, so Joe helped her!

Good shot little girl! Markus thought it was fun to clean up the brass too!


Shot a few rounds with my shot gun too!

By the time we left I was barely taking time between shots!

Then it was time to clean up and get ready to go.

What a fun day!