Have I mentioned lately how much I enjoy our homeschool meetup group? And that’s even with me getting lost. Yep, lost. We did something different last week. We went to a ranch. And going somewhere new usually means the chances of me getting lost increase. And that’s even with GPS navigation.

When we were getting close to our destination, the voice on my phone said it was on the right. But it was just an empty lot. Turns out I missed a turn off on the right. So, naturally I kept going thinking it was just ahead somewhere. We ended up wandering around a state park for twenty minutes until I found a map that clearly showed the turn off.

When we finally arrived at the correct place, forty minutes late, I was beat. I sat down with my heavy, at least 25 pounds, weight Nathan, and just watched Isabelle have fun.

She looked at animals from a distance. She even braved petting a sheep though I wasn’t quick enough with the camera to capture that. And she wandered around playing with her friends and my camera.

I think this one is my favorite because of Isabelle’s shadow.

And this week we went to a park with a little stream. We’ve been to this particular park before so I knew to bring some food with me. Not food for us. Food for the crawdads!!

I brought some twine with me and the kids found branches and went crawdad fishing.

Well, not Nathan of course. I was busy holding Mr. Grump (Alan saw another tooth trying to work it’s way out and thinks that explains his mood lately) most of the time.

That would explain why I took three photos of the reflection of the sky when I was trying to take pictures of crawdads.