Outdoors

Amber on April 7th, 2009

Today I took the kids to the field near our house.  There were not as many flowers as last year, but we still had a great time. The kids really had a blast after the photo session was over – Wesley and Jillian explored a bit of water and got really wet and dirty:  

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Joshua on March 22nd, 2009

Despite the fact that it is only a few miles away and the fact that we’ve driven by it dozens and dozens of times, yesterday was our first visit to Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park.  Usually when we are looking for a creek hike we head down to Bull Creek, but since we were just there […]

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Joshua on January 24th, 2009

Yesterday I’d thought of writing about how Spring had apparently arrived in central Texas.  The weather was 80 degrees for a couple of days, we saw a gecko, and the last leaves finally fell off the trees in the back yard.  And then today it was 45 degrees and windy.  We headed for a “hike” […]

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Amber on December 8th, 2008

After dinner on Saturday 12/6 we walked down to the Wells Branch Homestead for their annual visit of Santa and luminaries.  The trails around Katherine Fleischer Park are lit up with hundreds of beautiful luminaries. Santa was visiting from 6-9.  We got there right at 6.  Good thing, because this Santa was a talker!  He […]

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