End of the School Year Celebration

Oh wow I'm behind yet again! And it seems the only time I can write is late late at night.

Last Friday, we went to a friend's house to have an end of the "school" year celebration. They have a lovely house with a huge yard that is surrounded by woods. The first thing my kids saw were the precious tiny kittens.
This little kitten had the sweetest mew. I think if my husband didn't have his head on his shoulders then we would have convinced him we needed to take one home.


My kids heard the others talking about the zipline and off they went into the woods.

Ashley had no fear! I on the otherhand was freaking out watching my baby jump. She wanted to go backwards, but I told her I was just not ready for that. Mason is afraid of heights so he would have nothing to do with it. I thought Aussie would do it, but he wouldn't have anything to do with it either.

I tried to go around and get down to where Ashley would end and if not to "save her" atleast get some good pictures. But as I was walking around I saw a huge what looked like an ant pile except it wasn't ants coming out of it. It was spiders. I'm a WIMP! I admit it. I went back to the starting point where some boys were talking about a tick they just saw. UUUUUUGH! And then a girl spoke up and said casually, Yah-we pulled off 5 ticks yesterday from my sister.

OK OK OK OK-- KIDS COME ON! NOW!

I said we had to go back and get bug spray on.
And on our way back we ran into this: It was small-but not something I was very happy about. We managed to get around it and got back to the house. In which I immediately called my husband and asked him to get off work now and come play with the kids, because I am NOT going back into those woods. Thankfully, he has a job in which he can do stuff like that as long as he makes up his time.

I told the other parents of the snake that I found. They said if it is a solid black or a solid green then it is fine. UMmmmmmm.....here look I took a picture of it. EEEEEk! That is not a solid color.

Before I go on with the rest of the day, let me say that I stayed up to weee hours of the night to research and find out just what kind of snake this was. If I would just look at the patterns, I would have said this was a rattlesnake. But I did my research. I enlarged the head. Apparantly, if the snake has slither eyes then it is poisonous, but if it has round eyes like this one then it is not. What I believe this to be is a gray ratsnake. To tell you the truth it doesn't make me feel any better.

So I told the kids they had to wait for Dad before going back into the woods. Which really wasn't a problem there was lots of fun things to do.

Mason asked a boy if he could try the scooter. I was close enough to hear the conversation. Mason just wanted a turn and the boy wasn't to willing to let Mason try.

"It isn't fair"

I just asked the boy if when he was finished if my son could try it.

It's amazing how other children act toward adults so much nicer than when asked from another child.

"SURE" and he immediately got off.

OK- I didn't mean for him to get off at that moment but whatever.

Mason tried it for a little tiny bit, saw what it was like and gave it back to the kid.

I thought this tree stump was really cool! They had hollowed it out. I didn't go in it, but the boys said that there was a dog bed in it. They had put a board on top and a slide down the other side. That must have been SOME tree! I wonder what happened to it.

Then Daddy came to the rescue!

I left to go scrapbooking and gave instructions to take pictures. He did good.
Ashley went back on the zipline.

Here's a close up.

And it appears Daddy let her go backwards.

Then they had a camp fire.
And they toasted marshmallows (or burned them).

And then made YUMMY Smores! In which the boys took one bite and then gave them to Dad.