Category Archives: Canoeing

Camping, Canoeing, Parks

Greenleaf State Park for my son’s sixteenth birthday!

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When we got on the road I was thinking how that went pretty well. Then…

Not what you want to see happen while driving down the road.

Thankfully I married a fixer. He did a temporary patch to get us down the road.
We had the best spot!

I am so glad we didn’t miss this!

His last day as a fifteen year old was pretty great 😉
The kids said they liked the Chandler park splashpad better than theirs. And it is a lot cheaper!

The girls liked the crafts table at the Discovery center.

This kid was a great sport even though I dropped the ball on the whole reason for staying in the area. We were planning on going to the Amish Bakery for his b’day but of course they are closed on Sunday. If only someone had checked the hours beforehand…

He still ended up having a great birthday though and I wouldn’t mind staying at Greenleaf again! We did not even get any hiking in 😉

Animals, Canoeing

I wanted something witty…

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I thought I could come up with something funny and clever for this picture I got of a duck while out canoeing with my family(FYI 7 people in a canoe will get laughs…).

Then I realized it is six in the morning and I use up all my brain power on my 5 kids.

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After I got over my fear of one of my kids dumping us all in the lake the canoe ride was not too bad.

Not calm but not bad.

Also, we may need a bigger canoe.

Canoeing, My Family

Canoeing ~Lake Sahoma

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Right off of Lake Sahoma in Sapulpa is a nice place for us to canoe.

It is listed on some maps as a Water Fowl Sanctuary.

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Duck!

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We brought Maddie with us this time!

She did great!

I did not do as great with the tilt she kept adding to the canoe…

I have a fear of tipping.

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These trees were so pretty!

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The boys are getting pretty good at paddling!

Pretty soon I can just go along for the ride.

Okay, so I do that already when I want to take pictures.

But at least now Nick will have help!

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It looked like the Carp were spawning.

I am not an expert but from what I could find, that seemed to be what was going on.

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The water would suddenly go crazy when you went over it in the shallows!

We saw a lot of big carp(also a guess, I am not an expert on fish).

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I really enjoy all of the wildlife we get to see while canoeing!