Family Fun Day

We've all been fighting some sort of bug for the last week so we decided that what we really needed was a family fun day. We had originally planned to go to the park or the beach, but it was pretty overcast so we didn't want to stray too far from home. After church and lunch, we took a nature walk in the yard. You'll notice that the kids are dressed for cold weather even though it was 85* outside. That was our failed attempt at keeping the mosquitoes away. It didn't work though and our walk lasted all of 15 minutes before the mosquitoes drove us back into the house. We did find a bird's nest, some strange looking seed pods and found the next tree we are hoping to identify for our nature study.

After bathing the kids in Calamine lotion, we made caramel apples! We've never done it before, but the directions seemed simple enough - melt the caramels with a little water and dip the apples. Easy Peasy. We did have one small casualty with the hot caramel, but it was really not a big deal. No matter what Sadey tries to tell you. Honest.