In honor of National Ice Cream Day {which was yesterday} I give you: PEANUT BUTTER CUP ICE CREAM. YUMMY! A local brand called Homestead. We are hooked! If you missed all the hoopla yesterday, you have my permission to go out and celebrate today. *SMILE* { I added the little chocolate and peanut butter candies} |
Yesterday afternoon our youngest son and his family went with us to a nature preserve called Goll Woods that is in our area. I can't remember the last time we walked in here! I wanted to last fall and it didn't work out so we got a jump on it this year. Not many pretty leaves or flowers yet, but we will come again in a few weeks when the tulip trees and other flowers are in bloom hopefully and again in the fall. |
We followed our son and he took us over this bridge on the way. Of course I had to have hubby stop the Jeep and get out and snap a few pics. |
We parked our vehicles and hit the trails. Don't you just love the names? I do! We decided to walk Tuliptree Trail first. |
The little girls did well overall. Big sister Annika did a lot of whining the farther we walked, but I thought they did a great job because we walked over 3 miles. Maybe four. |
This is what sweet Ainsley said to her mommy after picking up these two sticks. |
Moss was everywhere you looked and it was great to see some green. |
I tried to take photos of unique trees. |
I think this is a shag bark tree? |
A huge roll of barbed wire |
Have you ever seen a camouflage tree? Pretty neat. We saw a few of these. |
I wonder what little creatures have wandered in and out of here over the years. |
This was the second trail we walked called Toadshade Trail. |
I wanted to get a shot of how huge these trees look next to us. |
These trees are just crazy |
Son Nathan on a baby snake hunt. It wriggled away so I couldn't get a photo. |
Contemplating the long walk ahead? lol |
There were several trees with carvings on them along the river. |
This sweetie did a lot of this...her legs could just hardly carry her. |
This tree reminded me of an elephants foot! What do you think? |
This photo should have been up higher in the post , but I forgot to add it. {Had to get one of myself in here too} If you scroll up higher in this post you will see that my son swiped my hat and was wearing it. He LOVES that hat. {It is really my husbands} We had a WONDERFUL family time, but I am just not as young as I used to be. I went into this walk already aching all over and I was worse for wear when we got home. Exhausted, but it was so worth it. I love family times like this. I hope you enjoyed our nature walk as well! I took about 280 pictures plus so I really had to pare them down!! {I am having an online garage sale again so be sure and check out my previous post. I will be adding more things as the days go by. Thank you!!} |