Time For Camping

This weekend we went on a camping adventure to Mohican State Park. We spent two nights camping out in the tent and had a lot of fun.

The best part about camping is throwing rocks in the river.

And throwing more rocks in the river. Endless fun!

Sister hug!

We explored, went on a little hike and had very little sleep.

On the second night our friend McKenna and her parents joined us. Of course, the first thing we did was show her our rock throwing spot.

The dads took us out to the island in the stream.

What is camping without a little princess tea party?

And s'mores!

I'm not tired!

We had a great time and despite not sleeping very much we are ready to do some more family camping soon!

An Apple A Day...

Today we went on a trip to a local apple orchard to harvest our own apples. They had over 100 varieties of apples and you could sample as many as you like.

We took full advantage of the sample opportunity!

Mmmm, yummy.

Sarah was so busy eating she had trouble keeping up with us.

I was very good at selecting apples and was careful to look for bug holes or bruises. Mom says I am a professional.

After all the work of selecting just the right apples, it was time for some play. Hide and seek in the apple orchard anyone?

Here is Sarah munching her 3rd apple of the morning.

After the apple orchard mom took us for a little playtime and a picnic. We love picnics.
Sarah has decided she is big enough to do slides all by herself.

Mom finds Sarah's independent streak to be a hair-raising experience!

Well, the final verdict is apples are delicious - unless mom cooks them with a whole bunch of yucky stuff, serves them with rice, pork and broccoli - then they are just yucky!

Fall at the Zoo!

Today we talked mom into taking us to the zoo. They are having a fall festival so we packed up a lunch and off we went. Don't we look like natural farm girls sitting on the hay bales?

We rode the train and saw moose, timber wolves and a black bear.

Here is Claire's favorite stop....the snakes. I don't know why, but she loves to see the snakes and pet them as you can see below.

I asked Claire what kind of pet she wanted the other day. She said a python and I said no. This of course led to an endless series of questions about why not.

We visited the goats and gave them makeovers!

Rode the carousel of course!

And hung out in our treehouse. We tried to have a picnic, but the bees were a little to interested in our food so we had to eat on the run. We had a great time, a good warm up for the weekend!

Windy Days

Well the reminents of Hurricane Ike passed through on Sunday making things pretty windy around here. We were one of the lucky neighborhoods that didn't lose power. Sarah had fun feeling the wind, Claire didn't like it at all.

With the wind damage and trees down all over the place we have been sticking close to home this week. Our friend Jordan is visiting from California so we have been having lots of fun with him. Mom tried to explain to us why the library and McDonalds are closed - no power. I still don't understand why I can't get a milkshake!

Since there are no milkshakes to be found, we settled for a picnic dinner in the backyard. Mom figured eating outside would be a good warm-up for our upcoming camping trip.

Below are a few videos of us singing, dancing and just being kids.

Swiss Chocolate

After a long week Daddy returned home from Switzerland. Sarah and I went to the airport to pick him up. We were so excited to see Dad that we ran around the baggage claim area like little monkeys.

Dad brought us these cool pink hats and lots of swiss chocolate. I think it tastes great! I am going to eat this whole bar!

Sarah likes her hat and chocolate as well. She just keeps asking for more, more, more.

Here is a couple mountain shots from Dad's trip. I really want to fly on an airplane and go see mountains.

A beautiful swiss village. In honor of Dad's trip we signed out a German book to learn some words to help Dad on his trip. Of course now I just run around saying 'Der Hintern' (bum) Funny!!!!