Sugar & Spice: "Tree"mendously Fun Day!

Today Landon was in for a real treat! I had been wanting to take him to Huntsville all summer to visit the Botanical Gardens, but we never could fit it into a weekend that my husband, Josh, was off of work, and I certainly didn't want to go alone. So at the MOPS kick-off we received a calendar of upcoming events, and to my surprise they had worked in a trip to the Botanical Gardens to see the Tremendous Treehouses display. Yes! How perfect is that? Well it just so happened that today worked out to be the perfect day all around! There was a nice cool breeze outside, clear skies, Josh was off of work, and Auburn had a late game :) So that gave us the entire morning to spend at the gardens! And to top it off, someone wanted to look at our house while we were gone, so it was a perfect fit!

Rather than carpooling with the other families, we opted to leave early and go it alone...that way we could make a Starbucks stop :) We ended up getting to the gardens at the same time as everyone else, but we all split up once we got inside. (since the children were all different ages and wanted to explore different things) We ended up spending 2 1/2 hours in the garden and we had the most fun! We probably would have stayed longer, but a little someone was getting sleepy! Landon really enjoyed the freedom of running all over the place and getting to play with EVERYTHING! Seriously, there was nothing that he could destroy! haha! This trip even sparked my husband to say that if we ever have a house with a nice, flat backyard that we will have to get Landon a tree-house of his very own! He loved climbing up and down the stairs, swinging, sliding, just whatever the particular tree-house (there were 10 of them...) had to offer.

As soon as you stepped into the gardens you could tell that Halloween was just around the corner! There were creepy crawler decorators galore, like giant spiders, ghosts, and even a Frankenstein made out of large painted bales of hay...not to mention the other "Garden Creatures" throughout the exhibit. There was even a hayride and a maze, but we had to forgo them because Landon was just too sleepy! Overall this was a delightful day! Definitely something we plan to do again in the future!...maybe even the near future! :)