Harkness Park

I had big plans to do a photo shoot with our dear friend, Lisa, who is the BOMB with capturing us... but the hurricaine, random rainy days and pneumonia kept getting in our way so we were never able to make it happen... :( ...one of my dreams was to have her meet us out at Harkness Park... Patsy loved it that last time we went, so it is now tradition to take her there when she visits... I took lots of photos and had her take lots of us... perfect weather, warm ocean waters, feet in the sand during October... what could be better!?  :)

Here we go...

LOTS of squirrels!  The kids loved chasing them around, trying to feed them or catch them.

See the little guy on the picnic table ahead of them...

Elia's height... will have to keep up with this over the years.  :)

Noah chased this squirrel a good distance before it headed up this tree... he was trying to feed it an acorn... he is throwing it up to him... can you see the squirrel??  :)

Liliana holloring for animals in the tree den here...

Breathtaking!

Daddy "shooting" me with Dr. Pepper and Water... haha!  :)

 She picked one flower, then learned to not pick any more.  Notice she is wearing her Cross Country medal she won the day before.

 Again, Patsy captures a beautiful Monarch.

"Repunzel, Let down you hair!!!!!!"  Noah shouted as he looked up to the top of the tower...

 He loves wild little me... :)

 Looking and listening to the kids...

Liliana asking daddy to marry her...

 He swept her off her feet!

 Busy gathering and tasting sticks!

Feet in the sand for the first time (minus the rocky sand and Valley Falls)... SWEET!

 Patsy did a good job capturing our sizes here... so cool!

All four of us watching Daddy show Noah how to skip a rock... Noah threw rocks, big ones, by the handful, into the ocean the entire time!  FUN!

A message for Mommy...

 Sunsets on the beach, there is nothing more relaxing.

Liliana dancing round and round her brother who's britches are wet to above the knees...

We LOVE this special place and are so thankful we are a relatively short drive away from in... some people never experience things like this in their entire lives and I take time to realize that and say, "Thank you, Lord" for these memories!!!