Adventures of the Loveless Family

Next we took a walk around the neighborhood to collect different types of leaves to do leaf rubbings with. On the way out the door, Molly grabbed Scott's hand and said "You're coming along, right Daddy?" How could he say no? It was fun to be out on a walk with the whole family - we don't do it often enough! The girls collected lots of fun leaves and we did some really nice rubbings of them. Unfortunately, they didn't photograph well.

Last, I had the girls help me sort through the crayons to get out all the peeled and broken ones. Then I stuck a bunch into foil muffin tins and baked them in the oven for a while. They all melted into these really cool multi-colored crayons. The girls love them - I think this might be a fun project for the Daisy troop!



After all this fun, I was exhausted, but it sure was fun to hang out with my girls for the day. We really had a blast!

The weather has been so nice that we made our first trip to Paulus Orchards a bit early this year. We picked Jonathon, Gala and Cortland apples. The Cortlands were reserved for pie :)

The girls had fun, but Molly was a bit terrified of the yellow jackets that were hanging out in the orchard around the trees and fallen apples. She was stung a few weeks back, and she's been really leary of them ever since.





The trees had been pretty well picked over when we got there, so it was hard for the girls to find many apples to pick. Megan loved picking from up on her Daddy's shoulders.