Heidelberg, Germany

What We've Been Up To

We headed to the Youth Center on post with our sweet neighbor so the girls could decorate Valentine cookies. 

 All the fixings

and the finished product

Meg and I ran the Heart and Sole race on post.  Meg biked and I ran.  Owen wasn't feeling well and wasn't about to wear this pink tee shirt.  Meg left me in the dust. I think she got tired of biking so slow so she took off and waited for me at the finish line.

 Off to pipe at the local Irish Festival in town.

 We headed to beautiful Beaufort for the day.

 Then we took in a quick trip to Parris Island.  We saw some recruits training and felt a little scared just watching.

 We tried a little art activity I saw online.  You use shaving cream, and food coloring.

 Swirl the colors into the shaving cream

 Take a piece of card stock (we used water color paper) and push it into the shaving cream

 It looks like this when you peel it off

 Then the magic happens -  you scrape off the excess shaving cream and hiding underneath are beautiful colors

and this is what you get!! Ta da!   We would get about 2 prints and then you simply put another layer of shaving cream and start again.

 Meg did one with two colors and it turned out super cool.  Side note on this little art diddy  - it smelt great, was easy to clean up and I picked up the supplies at the Dollar Store.  Win-win

 then we did a super easy science experiment, it involved bubbles and fizz so Owen was into it

 Time for a few pictures of a segment I would like to call:  TAKE IT OUTSIDE TUESDAYS
I've decided Tuesday are a great day to go on field trips.  Just to break up the week and help us explore the area.  We do our school work in the morning then head off about 1:00
This week I chose to take the kids to The Charleston Tea Plantation
We got on this super cool trolley to take a scenic tour of the plantation.

 and we're off.

 Tea Trees

 It was super cool hearing about the plants, the land, the history and then how the tea is made

 The setting was beautiful

 I really liked this trolley. It was worth the trip just to ride on this beauty... with the windows open:)

 Inside the gift shop they had all the free tea you could drink!!

 It was cool to see the factory

 Then we made a quick stop by the Angel Oak  - it is believed to be over 1,500 years old

Thank you Lord for making such beautiful things!

                                                 and of course I always seem to find those "hidden jewels" on the camera.  The one you think I should blow this up and make this into a canvas print to hang in our living room.  I'll leave you with these.