Today we enjoyed the Dallas Blooms flower festival during a field trip to the arboretum & botanical gardens. We met up there with some local homeschool friends and cousins & it was beautiful & shaded and breezy. Plus we finished up our trip in the frog fountains so they were well cooled off. 🙂

And fun surprise, we ran into B’s primary NICU nurse there! Didn’t get a picture of her but we’ll see her soon.

They had an early Texas area with a log cabin, sod house, covered wagon, and teepee tent. We had our picnic lunch there.

We checked out 3 of the 7 fairy tale story houses/castles that were built by local architectural firms. This was the Little Mermaid chair, with all of the cousins there (well, except Baby O) – and you can see all their faces? Amazing.

Miss O was very patient of the whole thing, she nursed while the big kids played in the fountains.

And always the funnest way to spend a day, playing with cousins:

They were walking away but it was cute seeing them all holding hands:

The fountains were a huge hit, I’m glad my sister warned me to bring extra clothes:

As we were leaving J ditched us to run back to my sister and beg her to take him home with them. I pulled him away as he said, “I like them!!” This is J with his cousin, she’s almost exactly a year older than him:

The place is beautiful and smells so good. Normally it’s $12 for adults and $8 per kid ages 3 and up, but with a field trip (at least 15 kids 4 to 12 years of age) it was only $4 per kid, 3 and under were free, and adults were $5. Amazing deal!! My sister actually coordinated with a lot of her local homeschooling friends and we brought one other family and that was more than what we needed, so I’m thankful we were able to work it out for a bargain price.

Plus we took Mo’s baptism invite pictures, Kit’s going to make those up this weekend.