November Photos

 November is one of my favorite months, the weather is always great in Georgia and our anniversary is November 6th. This year we decided to take the kids for their first (well, second for Echo) camping trip for our anniversary weekend.

We went to High Falls State park just South of Atlanta. It was beautiful and the kids loved camping! We will definitely be doing it again soon.

We also did a fair amount of hiking and playing outside in November.

We had our Thanksgiving celebration at NLA, our preschool coop.

Amd for actual Thanksgiving we had a picnic in our back yard.

After the meal we played on a nearby playground to burn off our lunch.

We did a scavenger hunt at Oakland Cemetery the day after Thanksgiving, so much fun!

Last but not least we got a Christmas tree! What a fun month!

Story Stones

While I'm working on getting my November pictures up here is a quick little post about my latest DIY project. Every year I try to make one thing as a homemade Christmas Present for the kids. I'd love to do more than one but to save my sanity I have to limit myself :-) Last year it was felt crowns.

This year I decided on story stones! Echo is a big story teller and I think these will be really fun as prompts during our story telling play. Clover will probably get a kick out of just playing with them so I made a set for each girl. They were really fun and easy to make. I used acrylic enamel paint and some river stones I ordered on Amazon.

It was fun coming up with ideas for the story stones and taking my time painting each one. Hopefully this will be something my kids can treasure for years to come.

October Photos

October was a beautiful, busy month. We kicked things off with a trip to St. Augustine, FL. We had an awesome time touring the downtown, visiting the Pirate museum and getting in lots of beach time.

We went to a friend's Birthday party on a beautiful Saturday evening.

We did a few corn mazes before Halloween including a haunted corn maze with Echo one evening. I was worried she would be scared but she loved it!

We have been getting more active over the past few months and have been getting out hiking whenever we can. We visited the creepy and awesome Doll's Head Trail.

We checked out the new Children's section at the Botanical Gardens.

We are pretty active with our home school friends and one of the kids (at only 6!) hosted a day of activities that she planned herself including a science experiment, pillow fight, running wild, fort building and eating pizza. The kids had a blast!

We went trick or treating twice, once on Marietta Square...

And once with friends in our neighborhood. The girls were both Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

And I was Harry Potter :-)