Treasure Hunt

This morning we went to our local park for a playdate.  Karis is going through Mari-Morgan withdrawals and vice versa so we met up with them to enjoy the weather.  This is our favorite park around town and we were surprised with many renovations/additions since the last time we have come.  

I found out that our city was voted the healthiest city in Mississippi so we were given some money in grants which have paid for these awesome renovations.  New walking tracks have been added as well as a restroom facility.  In addition, they have put these signs/activities around the walking track....

There are some really cool learning activities to do with kids while walking the track as well as they have painted the track to go along with the signs.  For example, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors and other things are added as part of the activities.

Brayden's fav part is always finding frogs around the lake and feeding them to the fish.

Little Miss Independent enjoyed it as well....

The girls had a ball as well.  These two love each other so much!

Nathan had football practice so the girls were so sweet to let Brayden play with them.  As we were walking the new trails, the girls decided to go on a treasure hunt.  They found all these lovely things....

But THIS treasure surpasses them all!!!!  Isn't the doll they named Gracie (b/c she sure does need ALOT of grace) just adorable????

Check out the rear view!

They were so excited to find her and were so proud to show us their favorite treasure of the day!  Since she was dirty (just a tad) they decided to clean her off.  So how did they do that???  Just wash her in the lake of course.  I am not convinced she was any better from her bath, maybe just muddier!  They wanted to take her home and fix her up but thank goodness we convinced them to hide her until next time we come.  Oh someone please go do away with her before we come back!!!

Oh and look...Lucy found some treasure too!  LOL