Lunar Golf

Last week for Family night we decided to spice things up a bit and just go out for a little family fun. the kids have been getting tired of our normal lesson, activity and treat, so we decided to go mini golfing. There was an outdoor course that we tried to go to, but apparently it was too cold for them to be open. Needless to say we had some very upset children, except for Keean. He said he was too tired to go golfing and he didn' t want to go. Well the other children won, and we drove down to Cinncinati to an indoor "lunar" mini golf course. Where everything was under black lights so everything and everyone glowed! Well the ride there Keean fell asleep. We carried him into the mall and sat him on a bench where we could see him and he slept the whole time under those black lights! Aedan and Harrison had a great time while I walked around the mall with Ireland. We carried Keean out to the car and he continued to sleep all the way home. We brought him home, changed his clothes, tucked him in and he stayed asleep for the rest of the night!

The Bon Fire

A couple of weeks ago we went to a friend's house for a bon fire. We went to the back of their property and had chili and hot dogs and roasted marshmallows and we went on a hay ride too! it was a lot of fun. The fire was pretty big adn it got hot really quick. We had to keep scooting back be cause the fire kept getting hotter and hotter. It kind of scared Keean. Jamie is forcing himself to eat a hot dog. We all know how Jamie LOVES hot dogs! It was a fun night.

Hollow tree

Here is a picture of the inside of that tree. We were amazed to see that it had collapsed during the storm, but when we got closer we saw that it was all hollow inside. It must have been rotted all the way through. It was such a huge tree.

Marsh Family Hike

A couple of weeks ago we went "hiking". It was more like a glorified walk throught the trees on a pathway :) but we had a great time. It was enough to get Keean tired. We went around a lake and we saw a lot of trees that went down during the "hurricane" in September. This is one of the trees that went down durning the storm.

Halloween cookies

These are some friends of ours who just recently moved from Syracuse, utah to Springboro. They left all of their family to come here too and wanted someone to share their halloween tradition of decorating Halloween cookies. I'm not so sure I'll do that again. I ate way too many of those darn sugar cookies. They were delicious! It was fun and I'm sure we will do it again! Fawn Holbrook is the mom, and Morgan is Keean's friend and Harrison's "girlfriend" :)

Geocaching Event

About a month ago one Sunday afternoon we decided to go Geocaching. Geocaching is where people have left surprises, little trinkets, little notes etc at specific coordinates. The people who place things for geocaching have to register the site on line. People who are interested in looking for geocaching sites then go online to get a list of ones that are close to their area or wherever they want to visit. Then you hop in the car, plug in the coordinates and let the GPS guide you to your destination. The kids thought this was GREAT! It was a modern day treasure hunt! When we finally found the "treasure" the kids were thinking there would be some money, gold coins, something of worth :) Instead we found an old GI Joe figure, a bent up card and a sticker :) Well...it's all about the journey, not the destination, right? Of course they wanted to do more. The rule of geocaching is if you take something from the site, you have to replace it with something else. Jamie and I felt it would be a great idea to leave pass along cards for the church when we go. Hopefully we can get a hold of some so that we can start placing them. that was a fun afternoon.

Cinncinati Reds Game

Aedan and Jamie went to the Cinncinati Reds baseball game in September. Aedan had been asking Jamie all summer to take him to a baseball game, so the last weekend they were playing they got a great price on tickets! Unfortunately, the Reds weren't great this season, or the last several for that matter, but this was also fortunate because they got cheap tickets! Aedan had a blast. Jamie and Aedan even got Reds baseball hats to support the team.

Aedan liked using the binoculars, but by the end of the game they were pretty close to the field so he didn't need them anymore!