Category: Petra

We had our first snow of the winter! We took wintry walks with Petra, hung out with friends (here’s Xander with his good friend, Archer), had fun sledding, and even brought in a baby pool full of snow for the bunny to enjoy.

We went out on the boat this afternoon for a little end of the year/beginning of summer celebration!

We took Petra, which is always fun because she’s just so in her element when she’s in the great outdoors with her people. When we stop off at wooded islands to explore, she’ll grab a stick and drop it at our feet and jump up and down until we throw it out in the water…then she’ll sprint out and swim to catch it and bring it back to shore, shake all the water off, and do it all over again.

Tom and the boys love cliff jumping. Petra was whining so much in the boat when she saw that the boys were swimming over to the cliffs…she just wanted to be with them. So, Tom put her in the water, and she swam all the way over…I think she would’ve jumped in with them, if they had gotten the timing right. She eventually kind of misstepped off of one of the lower rocks, landed in the water, and swam back to the boat. Sweet girl. What a great dog!

We also loved taking the Big Mabel out for a spin. Jonas and Xander could do it all day long, going super fast over bumpy waters, doing continual donuts, and/or hanging off the side. Roman and I, on the other hand, get a little nervous/nauseous and prefer to stick to the basics (sit down, hold on for dear life, and go as slow as possible)…so we make a good team. We’re looking to more summer fun on the boat…it was a great way to end the school ring in the summer this afternoon.

We were so blessed to be able to go camping over Fall Break!!! It was definitely on the chilly side but so worth it to just get away from it all and be out in nature together…what a great way to ring in the fall season.

We are so grateful to one of Tom’s good friends from the Nolensville Volunteer Fire Department, Marc Fielder, who graciously lets us camp out on his land a few times a year.

We loved hiking, collecting and chopping firewood, drinking hot chocolate, eating s’mores, and hanging out around the fire.

We got to go camping over spring break which was so much fun!!! On Thursday, we got settled in, walked down the dry creek bed, gathered wood for a fire, filtered water from the creek, checked out Tom’s survival gear, put together a peach cobbler (in the Dutch oven Grandma and Grandpa gave us for Christmas), grilled hot dogs, ate a yummy dinner and dessert, sat around the campfire, and tucked in for the night. On Friday, we ate breakfast, went exploring, hung out around the pond (Petra swam for the very first time in her life!), and headed home.

Yay for camping with all of the Seyfried boys!!!