farm park

Our final summer theme week was based on "Charlotte's Web." The week was cut short for me since I headed to Utah by myself (although I did keep with the theme by visiting my Grandma's farm). We started the week visiting the "farm park" which is just a fun playground we discovered that has a farm theme. We visited Winterpast Farm and the kids watched "Charlotte's Web" and "Babe" while I was away. And I think they made a second visit to the farm park with Ben.

Raulston Arboretum

Our next summer theme week was "The Secret Garden." So of course we visited a few gardens, starting with the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh. We walked around and admired all the blooms, had a picnic, and then headed out before we melted in the heat. We stopped at Pelican's Snoballs for the perfect treat to cool us off.

Prairie Ridge Ecostation

Our next theme week was "Little House on the Prairie Week." Amelia had already read the books but I introduced the kids to the tv show and they loved it. I was surprised since it's a little slow moving at times, but they really got into it.

During the week we made our own bread and butter, learned about life in the "olden days" at Oak View Farm and Yates Mill, and started our week off by visiting the Prairie Ridge Ecostation. The kids had the most fun cooling off in the river there.

starting summer theme weeks

We did our summer theme weeks again this year. This time I decided to try basing the themes off of books. Our first week was "Fairy Tale Week" and the kids had fun picking out lots of books at the library. We did a few fairy tale related activities throughout the week like visiting a few different fairy gardens, writing and telling our own fairy tales, and acting out fairy tales.

Fitness Week: biking, running, golfing

Fitness week was cut short by the start of our New England road trip. But, we did pack in a few things before we left. We went on a family bike ride one evening which was super fun. We rode 7 miles on the American Tobacco Trail. The boys did much better in the bike trailer this time and Elsa was a bundle of energy, ready to ride another 7 miles (Amelia, not so much).

We walked around this little lake one evening and Ben took turns running with the girls.

And finally, a little disc golf in crazy hot weather.