Recently the kids decided to get out their set of Lincoln Logs. My 7-year old was very proud of the building she built in the above picture. She followed the instruction sheet and was so excited that she was able to build this without any adult help.

Today’s Wordless Wednesday photos are ones I took several years ago at 19th century Dry Tortugas National Park. This was a very interesting, one of kind attraction that I’m glad my family and I were able to visit.

Almost 70 miles west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. The 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands.  Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life.

Yesterday the kids were so excited to wake up and find it snowing. It was the perfect amount of snow, just enough to give everything a lovely coating of white but not enough that we needed to shovel or to make the roads a mess. The kids had fun sledding and making snowballs. Now today it is almost all gone.

Yesterday was storytime with Elmo at our library. One of my daughters favorite characters is Elmo, so she was beyond excited to get her picture taken with him.

My youngest daughter just had her 4th birthday and wanted to spend some time playing at Chuck E Cheese’s for part of her birthday gift. So we made a family night out of it and had lots of fun. Don’t ask in how short of time we went through 100 tokens.