April 28, 2006

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  And this is a random photo blog LOL.   The first is a picture of Samuel collecting logs for his fort.  He brought them home, and built the fort on the video I put up last night.  We waffled about letting him take them home, but he'd worked sooooo hard collecting them LOL, that mommy was a sucker.

  
  

  Last night after dinner I made a point of taking my camera up to see the kids forts.  They had worked very hard on them, and I could tell even from the deck they were rather impressive.  They spent about 4 hours off and on on inventing them.  Once up there I wanted to see what was at the corner of that piece of the property on foot.  I can sorta see it from the highway, but had never walked over there.  Our property is rather big, and lot of it is brushy.  When I got over to the corner I realized there was a rather overgrown trail that would give us new access to the river.  This of course must be explored.  After ten minutes of sending children back to the house to get more appropriate foot-wear.  (flip-flops were not gonna cut it.)  We climbed through the blackberrys and came upon a new view of the river.  We even found a bit of river bank to play on.  DH was a teensy bit reluctant, rather thinking I was loosing it during the beginning of this exploration.  But when he saw the river bank he started relaxing a bit. 

  
  

   

  
  

  The water was shallow, and mommy started it--the first 3 steps to the "new" bank were easier to access by wading.  Which of course gave all six kids permission to wade...without asking.   So Samuel and Zeria immediately headed for the other side.  And no they weren't in shorts.  LOL

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  It was extremely shallow, and for some reason seemed much warmer then the last time I'd gone wading.  So I waded out to take a picture of the two crazies, and Rainee followed.

  
  

   

  
  

  As I looked down the bank I realized with a little wading I could finally get to see the mouth of the creek that's also on our property.  Which I had been attempting to view since we moved here--but the water was cold and much deeper from our normal access.  So, I headed that way--and the kids followed or got ahead of me.  Rob finally reluctantly joined the wading process cause he had been wanting to see it too.  LOL

  
  

  We got to the head of the creek.  And it was such a pretty little meandering thing, that we decided to wade across the mouth to the rocky bank.  It was pretty swift, and rather up to my knees.  We had to hold Rainee and Jamari's hands so they didn't get knocked over.  We stood on the bank and admired the purdy rocks.  And then realized if we just waded a bit more there was a bigger bank to explore.  And everything was so pretty.  *snicker*

  
  

  We ended up walking/exploring/wading the crick for over 3/4's of a mile.    It was a blast, and everybody thoroughly enjoyed it.

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