Field Trip!

The boys and I went to a friends house to play on their acreage. The kids loved trekking through their land, checking out the critters, playing in their stream and picking Spring flowers.

My girlfriend found this frog and one of the boys caught it.
The kids played with him for awhile before he escaped to the swamp. We think he was pretty scared of us and found a safe little shelter to hide in.


My friend, Carol, was 8 months pregnant with her 4th blessing and out catching critters - pretty good stuff!
We found these little mud piles all over the place. We were trying to figure out what they were when Carol told us they are made by crayfish (sp?) I wasn't sure what a crayfish was but apparently this is what they make.
But in no time at all she found a dead crayfish for us. It was funny that with 7 kids running around she was the one finding everything. Here is a crayfish. We tried to save him but he was pretty stinky!!!




Our friends own 7.5 acres - the boys loved playing out there.
Here we are picking "buttercups". They recently found out the proper term for these pretty yellow flowers that come out in May is "swamp marigold". They were all over the place and we picked a couple of pails of them.


This little girl would not stay out of that muddy swamp - she loved it as much as the boys. Here Gabriel is trying to tell her what to do and it doesn't look like she appreciated it.

Braden caught a grasshopper.

On the way back Carol found these tracks in the mud. We were able to identify them as deer tracks. This was a really fun field trip!