Vacation Week

We had a great month of school in August. We are already four weeks into the new school year. This first week of September we are taking off. Daddy has the week of and we have been having some great family fun. We went to Carowinds and had a blast. It seems Sierra likes roller coasters and can't wait until she is tall enough to ride more. Zoey wanted to try a roller coaster again but after last year she is just not ready. They rode all of the kiddie rides. Some of those rides were quite wild for kiddie rides but that was great for them. My favorite part was the lazy river. LOL!

A few days later we made our annual trip to the apple orchard. The girls have been talking about going for months. There are chickens, peacocks, turkeys, goats, sheep and geese at the orchard too. We were able to feed the chickens, goats, sheep and geese. The girls really like this part. The orchard also has jungle gyms and play houses. I laughed when Zoey started cleaning out the playhouse. There was hay all over the floor. Zoey also found that if she was loud enough she could hear her echo. Being loud enough is not difficult for Zoey. She kept saying, "Yodel lay-he-who" and "echo." It made us all laugh but especially the older couple sitting nearby. Next we were off to the waterfalls. The water was higher at sliding rock and colder this year so we went over to Looking Glass Falls. Mat and the girls played in the river and had so much fun. Mat was skipping rocks and finding eastern hellbenders. What is a hellbender?  Zoey and Sierra played with the mud and collected rocks. An extra nice thing about today was that Grandma got to come with us. We were all exhausted at the end of the day. The thing I love about day trips is we all get to sleep in our own bed at the end of the day.

 

 

Today we went to Charlotte Nature Museum and Discovery Place. We saw the IMAX movie Flight of the Butterflies. That was really cool. It did make me dizzy a few times though.

 

Tomorrow we are off on another adventure and that will be the last one for this week. After that the girls are off to Grandma and Poppy's house so Mat and I can go out for our anniversary.

 

I have to say I am truly loving the age the girls are right now. They are not so small that you have to do so much for them but they are not teenagers either. I will enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

 

Coming Soon...A review of our new art program.