Playing Catch-up from a busy spring!

Well, I'm behind on blogging again!  We've been staying so busy this spring with all sorts of fun stuff and I just haven't had time to catch up here.  Anyways, I'm gonna try and stay chronological in my posts...which means some of this stuff will be way old and y'all probably won't care, but I like to have it for my records!  :).   Hopefully with school out now (sniff, sniff...more on that in a later post!), I'll be able to keep up better!  Here are a few things that have kept us busy this spring:

~We took a second trip to the strawberry patch with our playgroup.  The strawberries were super yummy and Jack did a great job helping to fill up the basket.  Rylee, on the other hand, ate every one that she picked!  I don't think she put any in the basket!  We did a good job using all of our strawberries this year...we made: strawberry jam, strawberry pie, strawberry bread, and strawberry shortcake.  We also ate tons of just plain strawberries- so good!
~We broke out the water table during the month of May as the afternoon temperatures kept creeping up!  The kids have had a great time playing in the table and splashing around...and Momma and Daddy have enjoyed hanging out in the shade watching Jack and Rylee have a great time!
~We took a trip to the SC State Museum on a rainy Saturday.  It was a great time and the kids had a blast.  We actually only finished one floor of the museum during our 2+ hour visit....so we'll have to take another trip soon.  Jack loved all the cool hands-on science stuff they had there...Like Father, Like Son! :)
-We planned a trip to the zoo with our playgroup for a Friday morning...but the zoo was crazy busy!  Apparently every school district in SC had buses there for field trips...getting them all end before the end of the school year.  A couple of our friends got there early and couldn't even get a parking place, so we went to plan B and headed to the park.  The kids still had a great time playing and picnicing with their friends.  Looking forward to lots more of that this summer!

Here are some (ok, probably a bunch!) of pictures from our spring activities...

Ready for picking strawberries...

Somebody's working hard...

and somebody's too busy eating...

YUM!  Evidence of her snacking all over her face!

Stopping for a taste!

Showing off all his hard work...

Jack and his buddy, Drew!

Jack and Anna...

Me and my kiddos...

Playing in the water table...

Daddy relaxing while the kiddos play...

Learning all about pullies at the museum...

Pulling hard!

Everybody stargazing...

Jack loves anything to do with astronomy...

Miss Priss playing with the racing ramp...

Jack working on a little Morse code...

Rylee checking out an old-timey phone in the phone booth...

'The girls' walking at the park...

Climbing the rope ladder...

Jack and Drew playing hard!

The boys had fun checking out the stream at the park...especially throwing rocks into the water.

Rylee and Anna...deep in conversation...