My Little Explorers

One of the many wonderful things about living in England is all of the gorgeous parks and walking trails they have.  If I haven't mentioned it before, walking is somewhat of a past time for the English. 

I have never seen so many parks before in my life.  I suppose it's because all of the towns, villages and cities are so close to one another.  With that said, we ventured over to a park I've not been to before.  It was a beautiful country park in Leicester called Watermead Country Park.  It's a nature lover's paradise.  It had a lake, wetlands, flowers, bike trails and a life sized sculpture of a mammoth inspired by the mammoth, bison and deer bones found in the gravel workings years ago. 

Stella was a bit bummed that it was just a nature park and not an actual park with swings and slides, but she soon turned around when she saw the ice cream man in the parking lot before we left. 

Here's a few pics of a typical day out in England with my little family.  I love them whole heartily and am so very proud of my two best girls and so thankful I get to see this big world of ours with my best friend Steve. 

#familydaysout

 

Teaching Dad how to make a flower crown!

 

Stella destroyed her crown after all of Dad's hard work!  :(

Stella - Sports Day At Preschool

Here in the UK, they have something called Sports Day (I think it's fair to say that it is pretty similar to what we call Field Day).

Unfortunately, due to all the RAIN we have been having over the last 3 weeks, Lottie's Sports Day was cancelled all together and Stella's was held indoors.  Don't even get this Carolina girl started on all the rain we've been having lately.  We have had about a week of summer like weather and that's been it!!!!!!!!!!  1 week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I could obviously go on a rant about the weather here in England this year, but I'll spare you for now.  :)

Instead, I'll attach a few videos of the little relay races, etc. they completed a couple of weeks ago.  All the kiddos were super cute!  Stella rocked her Panther jersey while competing!  I think she was the only one dressed in sports attire - ha!  Apparently, I didn't get the memo that they didn't need to wear sports attire.  :)