When Meg turned 10 we started a little tradition of taking a special trip. So, about a month after Nate’s birthday, Erik took him on a fantastic Lead With Character Civil War battlefield tour.
Artillery at the Battle of Sharpsburg
Bird flew out of this cannon and hit Nate!
Surveying Gettysburg… Round Top in the distance
Morning exercise, gun display at Washington & Lee University
Stonewall’s grave
Transportation, full of snacks & soda, all you can eat/drink, no moms.
During Spring Break we went on a one-night camp out near Unicoi State Park.
Meg and Nate took a wilderness survival course all day Friday…
...while Erik, Kate, Caleb, and I went biking and playing in a stream at Unicoi.
After a pizza dinner and mini-golf in Helen (we’re not really foil-packets-over-the-campfire types)…
…we set up camp. The next morning we had breakfast al fresco…
…then went back to Unicoi to let the kids play on the beach for a few hours, while we read in the sun.
A good time had by all.
(not necessarily in chronological order)
Magic Show
Lost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and Found!
an artfully arranged Mother’s Day snack
“Hello. Need any cleaning done?”
homework time
a list-maker after my own heart!
