A Walk in the Woods

After watching both sessions of General Conference today, we were all a little stir crazy and went for a walk at Kedron Park. We've not been there since the housing development took over our old stomping grounds but we figured we'd find a way to get into the forest. In the end, it wasn't hard to enter but that will be a different story once all the houses are finished and they put up fences.
We discovered that a sturdier bridge had been put up across the creek and that there has been a team of paintballers hard at work building tunnels, treeforts and gates in the forest. There was a mini-city built in there.

Here is Austin emerging from the long tunnel.

Naomi and Gidget in the woods.

Here's a funny anecdote from our trek back to the car. Austin was in the lead but he announced that he was scared. "You go first, Emma", he said. How's that for the brave, big brother?

Fall Pickings

The plan for today was to have a Fall adventure! Once the first session of Conference was over, we went to Pingles for apple picking. We were surprised by the huge crowds there; we soon found out that they have Fall Fun Fair days on the weekend which means that some of the usual free activities weren't free today. We busied ourselves with picking apples, playing on the hay and then going and picking out some pumpkins. Once we returned home, Abigail and Austin painted pumpkins and then later in the evening, we made candy apples out of our freshly picked bounty. All in all, I'd say today was a success!

Cheese!

Freshly picked!

Shawn says that Ethan wouldn't be a typical 11-year old boy if he didn't make faces every time the camera was pointed in his direction!



Help! I've fallen in a patch of pumpkins and I can't get out!

Playing in the pumpkin patch.

Austin and Abigail with their painted pumpkins.