Valley Forge

We went to Valley Forge a couple weekends ago after it stopped raining all those days. It is where George Washington stayed for several months during the winter. We saw the house he lived in and the army cabins scattered around. No fighting took place here, so it wasn't super exciting. Riley always has to stop at every information plaque along the way.
These are the soldiers cabins. It probably was a long, cold winter. I would not have been a happy camper. Not while Georgie Porgie was in a nice warm house across the yard.
The kids are standing in a well they used for, well, water.
Adam claims not to have fun, but I snuck a picture of him and he looks happy to me. I think we were taking bathroom breaks and playing with Sandy on the grass.

Happy Trails

Since there wasn't much else to look at, we parked the car and picked a trail to try out. The fall time is beautiful in Pennsylvania and it was fun just to walk thru the woods. Elli found a huge leaf that they fought over and carried around trying to find which tree it came from.

It's What Boys Do

On the trail, Adam started pretending he was a soldier. I asked Riley where he learned this from and he said, "I don't know. It's just what boys do."
First he ran. Then stopped and looked.
Then ran, rolled, and paused. Shot a few times, then...
... was up and running again. He did this whenever we walked thru the "prairie" as he called it.

Conference Goodies

General Conference came and went too fast. I've tried using food to motivate the kids before and it still works pretty well. You can see our chart with the topics matching the snack. As long as the kids look forward to watching Conference, I'll keep making the treats.
Here they are with their empty bowls waiting for the talks to begin. This year the strategy was to collect the snacks and then eat them all at the end. Not me. I like to nibble as I go. Yup, I play the game too.

Day Off

Either the kids had the day off of school or Riley had a drill weekend, but either way, I had an afternoon with bored kids. We went to a park we always drive by and I didn't realize how long it had been since I'd taken the kids to the park. All of a sudden, they were the big kids that were almost too big to play there. I think we scared the toddlers, but it was fun.