PAR-TAY at Thanksgiving Point!

Mark is officially done with school!!  HOORAY!!!  So he took 3 days off work and we took the kids down to Thanksgiving Point for a little get-away for a night.  This is at the Garden's. 

We ended up renting a golf cart, with 3 miles of pathways and no stroller we thought it might be a good idea.  Plus I really liked the idea since I am prone to back aches easily as I get larger and larger!!  It was worth the $$$ to get it the kids thought it was totally awesome!

I didn't really think there would be much flowers this late in the season.  That will tell ya how big of a master gardener I am.  

 

There is over 55 acres of gardens here.  I highly recommend it.

Here are the kids feeding the fish.  We saw 2 water snakes and 4 frogs in this pond.

It was a serious feeding frenzy, we know our .25 went to good use!

Makayla is a poser!!!  She does this most times when we take a pic of her unless we tell her not to.  What a beauty she is!!

Chloe would not back up to this fence because the water was spraying through it.  Finally I told her to just hang on to the fence.  You can see in her smile her trepidation!

This is not the whole pic of the waterfall but it is the biggest man made waterfall in North America

This is at the Children's Discovery Garden's

We also went to Farm Country where the kids rode horses and fed chickens, goats, and llama's.  Afterwards we went to the Museum of Ancient Life.

The kids had a blast...in fact Gavin wants to have his birthday party there.  Might be a little far....

We then met our family at Joe's Crab Shack, Mark's fav restaurant to celebrate his Master's with them.    

 

Gavin ordered a crab steampot...look at the determination cracking that shell.  Makayla had to have a bib also, you never know how messy Mac n Cheese can be.

School starts...Is Makayla really starting school?

Gavin started 3rd grade and Makayla started Kindergarten on August 11th.

I can't believe Makayla is in Kindergarten.  I remember thinking Gavin would be in 3rd grade when Makayla finally went to school and it seems like that was just yesterday.  I'm excited for her!

Makayla's teacher is Mrs. Adams, she is the perfect kindergarten teacher, her way of speaking with them is so on their level and she sings to them always.  Makayla likes her a lot.  She is excited to learn to read.

 

Here she is sitting at the Yellow table.

Gavin's teacher is Mrs. Tatro.  He thinks that she is very nice and patient.  He has 3 friends in his class from second grade Boston, Korbyn, and Taylor.  His new friends in his class are Conner, Connor (yes, 2 Conner's) and Logan.  He is excited about doing the Scientist of the Week, where he has to bring a science experiement to class and teach them about it.

Here is Gavin at his desk.  He sits in between two girls and is totally not thrilled with it.  He says it's boring!  Hmmm get a little older son!  :)