Nature Walk

It was a beautiful day when Nile's parents came to visit, so we walked on a fun trail and let the kids ride their scooters and explore in the woods. I will admit I was slightly nervous about ticks (with good reason! I got bit way before it was the "normal" tick season and got Lyme disease, after never being in the woods at all.) I didn't say a word, though, as I don't want the kids to ever be scared to play and just be kids...well, I didn't say a word to anyone except God:) They had a blast and scared me half to death with their daring. Then Jim and Shirley took us to eat at Red Robin to celebrate my birthday, which was really fun, too.

Gabe found the neatest twisty tree branch-I had

never seen anything like it. It was almost like a vine,
but was super long and more like a tree branch.