Tim was involved in Youth Conference this past weekend for the youth in our church and therefore needed our car. Keeping two kids entertained for a full 12 hours without transportation was a bit daunting to me so that morning I made a list of things we could do when the kids started to get restless.
One of the activities on the list was to go on a "nature walk." We live in a gated-like community (there's no actual gate but there is a guard at the entrance) so the grounds are pretty big. I told the kids we were going "flower picking," and Owen was super excited that I was going to let him use the scissors once we stopped.
We brought along our bucket and some really crappy scissors.
(Unfortunately, we had to leave Mr. Giraffe behind)
Our first cut.
June loves flowers. She was really excited to scoop them up to put in our basket.
Our place is called "Flametree Terrace" so it's inevitable that there be flametrees on the grounds. I absolutely LOVE the Flametrees. We just missed the big blossom last year so I still relish in seeing them everywhere.
We saw lots of interesting flowers.
We did a little dance amid the falling Flametree flowers.
This is one of three Banana trees we saw. Best part? You can chop them down when they're ready and eat them for free! We also have coconut trees and a lemon tree.
Once we got home the kids helped me fill these old bottles and put our favorite flowers in them.
It kept them busy for a whole hour (which was surprising to me since it was so hot outside) and they were so tuckered out they took an amazing 3 hour nap afterwards!
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