Our 1st field trip of the year was to Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. All the years I lived in Fl. and I never even knew this place existed! They had snakes, many kinds of birds, raccoons - albino racoons! yes, they were odd looking :) and many other sorts of critters! This is the view I mostly had of the girls - their backs! HA They were SO interested in each and every animal or amphibian!
We did manage to snap a couple of shots with their pretty smiling faces....
and with their Momma
(how blessed I am!). Although, for the life of me, I know don't know WHY I didn't get a picture of the girls with their Gammy!! (Sorry, Mom!)
Katrina and Katie comparing their 'wingspan'....
This picture cracks me up...Katie - standing on her tippy toes and biting her lower lip as if that will SOMEHOW help her to be a little bit bigger :)
After we finished there, we went to a local park to enjoy our picnic lunch and then the girls had some time on the playground - that's always a winner!
We had our 1st picking of beans in our garden :) They tasted absolutely delish! You just can.not.beat homegrown flavor! Katie even said, "Mommy, I didn't use to be a bean-eater, but now I'm a bean-eater!"
We did have a few squabbles over who was picking the most beans :) and Courtney needed help with knowing which beans were mature enough and which ones needed to keep growing...
We didn't plant that many, so the yield wasn't huge, but it was enough for a meal. Hopefully, if the weather holds off tomorrow, we can check on the second batch and see if they are reading to be picked!
We have potatoes planted in the bins that are pictured behind the girls. The blue bin potato plants have blossomed, so I'm anxious to see how those potatos look....the other plants still haven't blossomed. It's being a bit of a gardening learning curve down here, but 'ya gotta start sometime!' :)
Our 3 citrus trees have about blossomed themselves to death and smelled heavenly!! Jaron has commented many times, even if we don't get fruit they are worth just the fragrance! We have had quite of few of the blossoms set fruit, though. I know that will be exciting when they are ready to eat!
This past week, Katie had her 1st Daddy date - you can just imagine how EXCITED she was! I love that! and now the girls have "scheduled out" when each one of them get to go on Daddy dates! When I asked them "what about Mommy?" They looked at me like - YOU need to go on dates?!!!! HA They did graciously 'work' me into the 'schedule' :)
