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Camping, Hiking, My Family

Thanksgiving at Devil’s Den State Park ~Part 1

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yellowrock2 top 1sthike woods thesemenWe went camping for Thanksgiving at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas.

It was wonderful and amazing.

The first hike we did was Thanksgiving morning on the Yellow Rock trail.

It goes up to a lookout and is about 3 miles.

stove thanksgivingWe cooked some slices of ham on the little stove Nick made for lunch!

So good!

sawmill ears nest 2ndhike hike2fall break sawmill2 water crossingAfter lunch we hiked on the Fossil Flats Mountain bike trail.

There are 3 different loops you can do. We took the Sawmill loop for part of it but crossed the river and took another trail back.

pieI made two sweet potato pies to bring with us!

So good!

I eat the other food just to get to the pie…

bridgeonly sunsetboys bridge watersunset2 sunsetwatching twobridges bridgesunset sunsetwaterThe boys and I went down to the river by the campground at sunset.

That water was so perfect.

I love the water in Arkansas so beautiful!

cards cardshands nightCards and reading to end the day.

I saw many other families out enjoying the day together.

It was definitely an amazing way to spend a day about thankfulness.

How did you spend Thanksgiving?

Are you a pie junky like me?

I bought two more pie crust’s but I am scared to do anything with them!

I have no self control once something is in my house.

I keep it out, that is the only self control I have…

Great.

Now I want pie.

Homeschooling

Homeschooling ~Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is tomorrow.

It might be odd that I am taking time out of cleaning and baking to do a homeschooling post but I needed a break…

I was planning on only a couple books about the pilgrims.

Then every book I requested at our local library came in at the same time…

Oops.

We have not read all of these yet and I am not sure if we will.

I am kind of tired of the whole pilgrim’s first thanksgiving story.

Our favorites though are:

The Magic Tree House “Thanksgiving on Thursday”

Imagination Station “Problems in Plymouth” (similar to the magic tree house)

“You wouldn’t want to sail on the Mayflower” (We have loved all of the books in this series so far)

I liked “The pilgrims before the mayflower”, it gave a different part of the story that you do not hear as often.

The only one of these that we have read is the one on Squanto.

My oldest read it.

I try to get him several books to read in the subject we are learning about.

We made thankfulness books.

I had them draw a picture of something they were thankful for then write what it is.

Please ignore the fact I spelled “thankfulness” wrong…

Oy.

Since we will be spending the rest of the school year learning about the United States I made a map to add states to as we learn about them.

I did it the hard way.

I really like it though so it is okay.

Okay, breaks over.

I should get back to my cleaning and baking!

Have a blessed Thanksgiving surrounded by those you love!