Make Life Meaningful Monday- September 17

On this, my birthday, I am most happy to have had a beautiful weekend with my family.  On Friday, we went on a field trip with a group of local homeschoolers to the Elmwood Park Zoo.  We do visit the much larger Philadelphia Zoo frequently, but really enjoy the change of pace with a smaller, quiet, more picturesque zoo.  They give free admission to military families (isn't that wonderful?), so I make sure that I always buy my children lunch there and a little something in the gift shop to express my thanks to the zoo's administration for honoring and remembering my husband's service.

The zoo is home to animals indigenous to North and South America.  All of the photos below were taken by Kiddo #1 (except for the one that he is in when I had to wrestle the camera from him, lol!)

Kiddo #4 and I also went to the local arts and crafts store to buy some fluff for the little pig that she made in sewing class.  I am so proud of her.  She did an awesome job on it.  The people in the store told her that she thought it was store-bought.  That made her day!  :-)

After Church on Sunday, Kiddo #1, my husband, dad and I headed to the RC club's picnic at their flying field.  Kiddo #1 enjoys the time not only to fly his planes (which he did SO well!), but is able to talk to all of the other members and gain from their wisdom and experience.  I have to say how impressed I am with the members of the club.  They are all so nice; happy to see a young man interested in the hobby and so willing to help him in any way possible.  One gentleman helped Kiddo #1 with some repairs and coached him as he was flying.  Another even told him today that he has a plane he would like to GIVE him!  Wow. 

Kiddos 2, 3, and 4 got to spend the afternoon with their grandmother and got taken out to dinner.  :-) 

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