Cincinnati Trip:: Baseball & More – Day 1

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On Wednesday afternoon we packed up and headed to Cincinnati for our annual baseball game trip.  Cincinnati is a great, family friendly town.  We stayed at a hotel downtown, so we were able to walk everywhere we wanted to go. Our first stop was a short horse ride around town The kids loved this part. […]

Quick Outer Banks Vacation Wrap-up

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Thanks to all for the kind comments about our vacation and for slogging through all the photos!  It was a great week and we are so thankful that we were able to get away and enjoy some family time in such a beautiful place.  It was a wonderful opportunity to see some of God’s creations […]

Travel Journal ~ Days 8-10

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On Friday we spent the morning playing in the sand and flying a kite. Leah loved the kite.  She walked around playing in the sand, never letting go of the kite and somehow it managed to stay in the air a good majority of the time. This is what happens when I sit still too […]

Travel Journal ~ Days 6 & 7

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On Wednesday we visited Jockey Ridge State Park.  It contains the largest natural living sand dune on the East Coast. Then we hit the go karts… Leah was a little nervous Jacob made us a gourmet meal! On Thursday dad made an early morning donut run.  He heard that Duck Donuts were a “must do”. I […]

WUTW ~ Vacation Edition

This vacation week was all about Nature Study.  On Sunday one of our first stops was to a local bookstore to pick up an Outer Banks nature guide. What a treat to be able to spend an unschooling/homeschooling week being up close and personal with nature. Here are some of the many creatures we were […]

Travel Journal ~ Days 1, 2 & 3

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As I mentioned in my Wrapping up the Week post from last Friday, we hit the road for a vacation.  We left MI Friday afternoon and headed southeast.   The kids did well in the car.  Sarah and Anna sat in the way back and I don’t think we heard a peep out of them […]

More Weekend Photos

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I thought I lost all of our first day of vacation photos.  I downloaded them from our camera to the computer, I watched them all load and then promptly deleted them from my camera, like I always do.  Then, when I went to locate them to show the boys and upload a few to a […]

Weekend Getaway

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For the last several days this was our view in the morning…. and our view each evening. Bob and I spent Thursday through Sunday on Sanibel Island, Florida. We did a tiny bit of shelling, but some people take that task very seriously.  We put that one back because it was still “live”. Royal Tern […]