Woodland Romps and Other Weekend Adventures

Yesterday my dear friend Lesley was inducted into the Terre Haute South Hall of Distinction.  I was ever so proud of her.  She is the living example of following a dream no matter how big.  As long as I've known the girl she has wanted to be a Disney animator and she has stopped at nothing to achieve her goal.  There was a special ceremony at the Country Club last night for the new inductees.  All of my high school friends were there.  It is always so nice to catch up with the old crew.

I also need to mention that we may have sold our house!!!  We are in the last few weeks before closing so we are really holding our breath.  Kyle and Wayne went down yesterday and packed up the last of our belongings still left in the house.  Our garage here in Marshall has shrunk considerably since yesterday afternoon, but what a relief!

After church today we went down into the woods by our house to look for mushrooms.  We were really hopeful that we would find some with all the rain and mild temperatures we've been having, but there was not one to be found.  Grandma Esta always told me to look around the May Flowers. There were plenty of those, so maybe next time we check we will have better luck.

Evangeline was really into mushroom hunting even though she had no idea what she was looking for.

This little girl was fearless.  She was scouring tree trunks and making her way through brier patches like an old pro.  She didn't let the fact that she was wearing her Mary Jane's stop her one little bit.

She even made her way toward her Daddy as fast as she could when she heard him say "hey, there's a snake".  

I found a tick crawling in her hair and she barely could be bothered to hold still long enough for me to get it off of her.  Although, she did make this face when she heard a bee buzzing behind her, but she quickly recovered and excitedly reminded me that bee's were signs of spring.

After I gave up my fruitless search for mushrooms for the day I started toward Kyle and Evangeline.  I found this precious sight....

She had decided to plop down in a bed of May flowers and pick a bouquet.  

Once she decided we had enough she was ready to go back up the hill to the house to find Daddy.

Let me just say it was a lot easier getting down the hill rather than back up.  It is a really steep incline riddled with brambles.  Evangeline was a better trooper than I was about climbing the hill...maybe because she was being carried.  So I had her, her bouquet and a ball that we found that had bounced down the hill.  This mama needs to start working out.

At any rate, we Hutsons are really enjoying this warmer weather.  Kyle has been reunited with the fishing pools, which were stored in Carbondale, and he gave them a whirl later this afternoon at Lincoln Trail.

I took Evangeline down to the lake after she rested.  She was very excited for her first fishing experience. Her method was to reel it in as soon as the line hit the water.  That was a real thrill.

I think Kyle was hoping for better luck with the fish than we had with mushrooms, but when I asked Evangeline if they caught anything she told me, "all we caught were worms".