Gifford Pinchot

On Friday we decided to head down to Gifford Pinchot State Park for a camp fire. It's the closest State Park to us, about 30 min. away. We got about 5 other couples to come and we all had such a fun time. Owen loved running around the woods and eating lots of healthy food...

All of our friends left but we decided to stay a little longer. We were just enjoying sitting by the fire when Owen decided it was time to go so he just hopped in the car and put his seat belt on. Then Jeff and I heard a rustling in the trees behind us. Jeff shined his flashlight and discovered a friendly skunk. We decided it was time to go. We had a hard time getting our chairs and putting out the fire because the skunk was not shy and we didn't want to scare it for fear of being sprayed. We were finally ready to go but it was hanging out right by Jeff's car door. He finally just climbed through the other door, over the seat, and we made it out of there without being sprayed!

Tonight after dinner we were cleaning up and Owen came up to me and said (in a matter of fact tone), "Should we make cookie dough now??" I was really looking forward to sitting down and relaxing, but I couldn't say no so we made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. The dough was really great, but the cookies kind of fell apart. But making it was so much fun. Owen is a great helper. He is especially good at tasting it at every stage!