Where did August go?!

August was filled with many fun activities for us.  A few weeks ago we went on a field trip to Herr's Chip Factory and visited our great-grandmother.  We also went with our Keeper's group to Indian Echo Caves for our first meeting of the year.

 

Our sweet little boy is such a joy to everyone...

 



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Mom and the children went to see our Great-Grandmother one day...
 



 David was telling Ma all kinds of things :)

 

Joshua took Benjamin around to say hi to the elderly people in the nursing home while we were there. 
It was so sweet to see their faces light up when Benjamin would smile and wave to them.

 

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 Mom and the children went for a tour of the Herr's Chip Factory after they visited Ma.

 

 

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One of our neighbors gave the boys a rabbit and David loves it :)

 

He's a cute little fella

 

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 The first Keeper's meeting for this year was a field trip to the Indian Echo Caverns, which is a limestone cave.

 ::cousins::

The first visitors to Indian Echo Caverns were the Susquehannock Indians.  It's believed that they used the caverns as a refuge during inclement weather because of the constant 52° temperature inside the caverns.

     The first non-Native American explorers of the caverns were probably French fur trappers. Most likely they discovered the mouth of the caverns as they traveled on the Swatara Creek. These explorers wrote about their tales in the caverns attracting more and more explorers.

 The Caverns were first opened to the general public in 1929. Mr. John  Bieber realized that many people wishing to visit the caverns might be put off by the treacherous, uneven terrain that nature created. He undertook a massive commercialization process, in which all of the pathways in the caverns were made safe for travel, as well as opening up many rooms closed off because of huge mineral deposits.

 Thanks to Aunt Melissa for choosing this field trip!

 

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Have a wonderful day!

God bless,

Kaitlyn, for the Sanger family

 



Best Little Brother Ever!

Sweet little Benjamin cracks us all up with his antics... the other day the children were outside at the picnic table working on their school and Benjamin was with them.  Joshua took these pictures and videos on his iPod of our adorable little boy.  He was making himself laugh and it was making us laugh!



Summer Experiment

Every summer when the Queen Anne's Lace is abundant along the roadside,
there is a little project the children love to do...

 

If you drop dye into the water the flowers will change from white to whatever color dye you put in!

 

We had lots of Queen Anne's Lace from the tea party so the children dropped their dyes in and the next day were thrilled see red, yellow, and blue flowers!