We learned our lesson last year that warm Texas fall weather and early carved Jack O’Lanterns don’t mix. Last year the pumpkins had nearly collapsed by the time Halloween came around. So this year we used carving as a good activity to kill time before the main event Halloween morning. For all of Jillian’s crafts [...]
Wesley wanted to take home the big stick he found at the pond in the afternoon. I told him we could make it into a fishing pole and take it back to the pond after dinner. I made his line out of a piece of string and his hook out of a clothes pin. The [...]
It is so great now that the weather has cooled off! We spent hours in the backyard on Friday. During the summer, we are not able to spend much time outside without the kids getting too hot. We had such a great time outside that Wesley did not want us to stop!
Last week I wrote that a camping we would go. Well we did, and survived to tell the tale. Just barely. Our destination was Inks Lake State Park outside of Burnet, TX. It is about a 90 minute drive from Austin and gets you into the northern part of the Hill Country. The lake is [...]