Long Wood Gardens

Hey this is Rosie taking over the family blog! (If you want to see the OLD Life in the Ant Hill blog to see everyone as itty babies go here: www.loveandcraziness.blogspot.com) 

I thought I would start off with a little bit of summer fun time.We went to Long Wood Gardens with Grandma (aka Peggy), Dad (aka Scott), Mom (aka Teresa), Mary Kate, Ben, Joey, David, Lucy, and me. It was a blast, and a great way to start off the summer.   

Lucy had a fun time at the Whispering Bench

 

 Lucy had a hard time keeping up with the boys when they ran ahead to the tree house.

 This is the view from the top level of the tree house looking down.I would love to live in a tree house like this.

 The kids were pretending that they were stuck in a cage and dying.

 This is looking through a hole in the tree house floor looking at the ground.

 Mom posed for a goofy picture by kissing the dragon at the door of the tree house.

 This is our pet Benny. He was found in Alaska as the sign above him reads.

 It was so sad saying goodbye to our lovely tree house which we all loved.

The water fountains were so pretty!

The kids thought this was so cool and were sad when they realized you couldn't actually go down the water steps.

This was a pretty path that we walked on. I loved this path. It was so peaceful and quiet. 

On the way we found this bunny hopping around and we stopped to look at it and to see what it was doing. 

It was eating something on the gravel. It stayed for a long time by us. 

Benny got too close to the bunny and it got scared away. But it was hopping around for about five minutes. 

I got to capture the stillness of the moment and enjoy the peacefulness because I stayed behind all of the kids and Mom. 

The entrance to a really cool tree house.

 This tree house would have made an awesome fort. Mom was taking these pictures so that I could run around and play.

 Poor Lucy was so little and the tree house was so big.

 We got to watch a cool fountain show up close. (Mom took all these pictures too)

We technically weren't supposed to climb this tree but there were no signs or anything and other kids were playing on it so mom said we could climb it.

 At the very end of the day we watched a huge fountain show with lights and music. It was cold but it was fun. A lot of fun.

The pictures below are from MK's phone

(Also, we just realized that MK's very first post (nine years ago) on the original Life in the Ant Hill  was also about Longwood Gardens, here it is: http://loveandcraziness.blogspot.com/2008/07/longwoods-garden.html)