Summer

A friend is letting us borrow a little slide until her kids are old enough, and the girls just go around and around on it. We're trying to teach Savannah that she's supposed to climb up the stairs and go down the slide, but Clara's example isn't helping very much...

Gotta love the Sonic Cherry Limeade!

This girl loves her blanket

Pricketts Fort

Jason is working nights this week, so this morning we ventured forth to Pricketts Fort, which was built in 1774. At the time there were about 30 forts in the area, and this reconstructed one is a composite of several of them. It was like a mini-Williamsburg, with the living history people. We saw an Indian wigwam (Clara didn't think the hanging bear furs with the heads still one were real...sorry, no picture of that gem), a garden, spinning, a loom, sheep, chickens, the works. It was really fun, and the State Park it was in was beautiful. There was also a cemetery with graves in it from the 1820s. That's the earliest I saw, anyway. It was awesome.

We tagged along with a school field trip, which Clara loved. I think she felt like such a big kid. Then we ate lunch by the fort and the girls raced around. The best part was Jason's homemade chocolate chip cookies. Who knew there was such a gem just down the highway? Wild and Wonderful, I tell you.

Clara doing jumping jacks in front of the fort. The alternative was her putting her hat in front of her face.

 

 

Savannah's 'deadpan' face. Clara kept saying, "I'm getting such a deadpan right now!"

Dorsey's Knob Park

We discovered a gem this Sunday afternoon. we made our way to Dorsey's Knob Park and saw
1. Two longhorn cattle, which apparently are the oldest kind of cattle in America. Who knew?
2. A reconstructed log cabin...random.
3. A mosaic wall.
4. Beautiful trees, rolling hills, and a great view.