November 2022

BROOKLYN

Brooklyn riding her scooter

Some of Brooklyn's cute drawings on my whiteboard.

Trying on Daddy's loupes. She wants to be a dentist when she grows up.

AUDREY

Audrey is learning about ancient history and made a mummy.

She also made a Chinese dragon when she learned about ancient China.

BROKEN ARM

Unfortunately Brooklyn fell off her scooter and broke her arm on Audrey's birthday. She was very brave and the doctor was nice and gave her an orange and black tiger cast.

POCONOS

We were able to join my parents and the Cranneys for a visit to the Pocono Mountain Shawnee Village resort. 

The kids loved miniature golf. Brooklyn did an amazing job for having a broken arm.

We had fun hiking to some waterfalls.

HERSHEY PENNSYLVANIA

We made a quick stop in Hershey, PA to visit Chocolate world.

We took a tour to learn how chocolate is made.

WHITE OAK CO-OP 

Nathan enjoyed doing a history themed escape room.

We had a delicious Thanksgiving feast

Turkey Nathan

Playing Thanksgiving games

THANKSGIVING

We had a smallish Thanksgiving dinner this year the day before Thanksgiving so we could be ready to leave on our trip on Thursday.

LONGWOOD GARDENS

We spent Thanksgiving day at Longwood gardens which was a magical Christmas wonderland of beautiful flowers, trees, and lights. 

The fountain show set to music was amazing

The kids enjoyed visiting the 3 tree houses

Audrey and Brooklyn loved the train

Brushing the dragon's teeth in the Children's garden

The Conservatory was breathtakingly fabulous

PHILADELPHIA

The LOVE statue

The temple at night

All the worlds a stage statue

The Thinker

Rocky Statue near the steps of the Museum of art

We enjoyed seeing all the beautiful art in the museum

Playing with corn husk dolls as they wait for their food at Reading Terminal Market.

Monuments to the immigrants from Scotland and Ireland

We toured the Olympia (Spanish American and WWI). This is the ship that brought home the remains of the Unknown Soldier. Jared enjoyed seeing the old suite where the Navy dentist would work.

 We also toured the Becuna WWII submarine, which was fascinating.

We toured what was left of Benjamin Franklins house and visited the Ben Franklin museum.

Franklin's grave

We visited the Constitution center which was really neat.

The Liberty Bell

We also got to tour Independence Hall

We visited our old apartment where we lived while Jared was in PA school.

We stopped by Arcadia University to show the castle where their dad went to school.

We visited the Fairmount waterworks and boathouse row.

It was really nice to show the kids all the wonderful Philly sights that we remember from our time in PA school. It was also nice to see some new places as well.

GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

Matching Christmas dresses

Holding the star

Decorating the tree

Gingerbread house

Visiting the mall where the kids played Where's Waldo for a youth activity.