It’s spring fever.   That is what the name of it is. 
And when you’ve got it, you want – oh,
you don’t quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! 
~Mark Twain

We’ve been enjoying beautiful weather this week.  Absolutely perfect!

Yesterday we joined some friends on a little (well, it was supposed to be little) nature walk around the lake.

It was a lot of fun.  But of course, with six children between our two families, there was plenty of drama as well. ;)

We did have some quiet moments though.

Let children once get in touch with nature,
and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life.
~Charlotte Mason

Each of the girls brought along their nature journals and did drawings in pencil, then when we came home they added watercolors. 

This is Miss A’s representation of the day.

It was a wonderful time. 

But of course, as all things with children go…everyone was a little less than chipper by the end.