November 2020
We kept busy in November with Fun Friday’s, visiting Cowan Lake for a quick camping trip, and Thanksgiving.
Fun Friday’s:
Our quick trip to Cowan Lake to check out the hiking and cabins:
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year we made our annual turkey shirts and goodie trays for some of the people we are most thankful for that included some crafts and treats, went for a hike that morning with friends, and enjoyed a delicious dinner with our quarantine buddies!
We finished up the month with the first snow and two zoom craft sessions in one day: Cake Pops and Decoupage Birdhouses!
Halloween 2020
Our October was filled with pumpkin patches, creating decorations for our “It’s A Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” trunk or treat, pumpkin carving, and of course a Ninja, Rey, and R2D2!
Shaw Farms corn maze and tractor rides:
Charlotte working hard on painting and the finished product (C not pictured as she was at a birthday party):
Pumpkin craving with Grandpa and Gibby and some pumpkin seed sorting and washing:
A perfect night for trick or treating:
We hope everyone had a wonderful October filled with tractor rides, pumpkins, and some cute trick or treaters!
Fall Beach Break
We had a wonderful opportunity to go spend the week working from the beach at Atlantic Beach this past week. The week was so nice, we spent each morning doing school until about lunchtime and then had fun going to the beach, aquarium, the Marine base where Grandpa use to work, Tryon Palace, and the skate park. Here is a few shots from our time at the beach.
Everyone missed the Aquarium when we were here earlier in the summer when they were closed, so we got to visit and see all of our fishy friends. One afternoon we split up and the girls went to Tryon Palace and the boys went to the base the Grandpa use to serve. Other afternoons we spent at one of their favorite places in Atlantic Beach, the skate park!
On one of of the last nights that we were in town, Grandpa took us on a dolphin and wild horse cruise! We got to see plenty of both and everyone loved it!
We had a great week at the beach and June had a great week at the Log with Grandpa and Gibby, but she was happy when we picked her up on the way home!
apple orchard 2020
One benefit of the kids choosing to participate in West Clermont Online Academy was the implementation of Fun Friday! Every Friday we finish our work and go do something fun! We have swam, hiked, fished, gone to the zoo, and this week we went to A & M Orchard to pick apples. We had the whole crew there and had a great time!
Norris Lake 2020
We spent the last couple of days social distancing away from the world at Norris Lake. We got to spend it with some of our favorites that we have seen during quarantine. Everyone had an amazing time and it was the kids first lake experience. The lake was beautiful and clear, the kids loved the pontoon that we rented while there, we tubed, paddle boarded, swam, flew through the air on rope swings, jumped off bridges, fished, Minecrafted our hearts out, and played with some of our favorite friends! Here are some of our favorite memories of our time at Lake Norris.
