Devonian Botanic Gardens

Last Saturday, we decided to take the kids to the Devonian Botanic Gardens near our house. There's a butterfly house there and the youngest three had never been so we thought they would enjoy seeing all the live butterflies flying around. We actually thought we'd just go see the butterflies and then go home but it was such a beautiful day that it seemed a shame not to explore the gardens a bit so that's what we did. The gardens were very beautiful and it was a wonderful way to spend the day.

Here are some of the butterflies we saw:

The kids were excited that Jess let them walk around taking pictures of butterflies with his cameras.

This is me looking at a butterfly. As you can tell, I had fun playing with my photo processing software on this one:

After the butterfly house, we explored the Japanese gardens. The kids were so excited to spot the koi fish in the pond.

They all liked sitting on the rocks by the waterfall and Connor said it was so beautiful and relaxing there that he wanted to do yoga. Hudson watched what Connor was doing and decided to give it a try:

After the Japanese gardens, we explored the herb gardens and the English garden.

We were celebrating our 15th anniversary this week:

Isn't this a sweet picture? Can you see the gleam in Hudson's eye? Right after this picture was taken, he hit Connor on the head with the stick in his hand.

There was more tree climbing that day:

And of course, more ice cream:

I sure wish summer was a little bit longer!