Warm(ish) Weather Outings in Mid November!!!

Another gorgeous week with plenty of time outdoors.  Ayson is already singing Christmas songs...hahaha so we will probably be putting of decorations very soon.  We hope that everyone is doing well and we are sending good thoughts to our family and friends!

Ayson's Portol artwork (drawing is a favorite pastime when grounded and can't be on electronic devices)   

We had gorgeous weather during the week and Amy took the kids to Stafford Park on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to play with friends.

Amy and the kids had Thursday off for Veterans Day and we talked about our family members that have served in the military - and we give thanks for everyone for their service!

Ayson wanted to go to a local greenhouse to look for new succulents to purchase.  Addie found a plant too!  There were so many cool plants blooming in the greenhouses!!

Check out the amazing lemon tree with SO many lemons!

Ayson and his prized succulent plants!

Ayson is attempting to re-graft a moon cactus (the red portion) to the dragon fruit cactus (green portion) by using a baby moon cactus from Addie's grafted plant.

After the greenhouse visit and lunch, we met more friends at Stafford Park!

On Saturday, we helped our friends Bob and Annie clean up ash trees that had been cut down.  Ayson helped with the wood cutting and loading a good portion of the wood into our truck for next years firewood supply.

And Addie made kindling bundles for future fires in the fireplace :)

Ms Annie paid the kids (unnecessary but Thank you!) and gave everyone hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows :)

 

Addie snapped a picture of herself with her leopard gecko, Sage (Addie determined that since leopard geckos eat insects and not plants that Sage was a better name instead of firefly)

Ayson made lemongrass tea out of the lemongrass plant that a friend of Adam's gave to us.  The tea was very tasty.  Ayson then tried to make mint tea (from our gardens) and he did not like the mint tea.