House of Haggard: The little things in Life

So far this summer we've made a few little Road trips. Just day trips to see different things. Jaelyn loves to ride in the car and especially loves singing to the radio in the car. So our day trips started off a couple of weeks ago by going to Bentonville. We walked around the Square, looked through the walmart museum, and then we toured Crystal Bridges Art Museum. Jaelyn did pretty good all day and She really enjoyed The pretend station in the Kids area of the Museum. Our next trip me, Lonnie, and Jaelyn went to the Oklahoma Aquarium. Since our child is obsessed with sea life and this place was only 3.5 hours away we thought we would take her there. She was mesmerized by all the fish. She loved getting to see "Nemo" and "Dorie" and "Nemo's Dad". When we walked through the Shark tunnel she was fine( My daughter loves sharks) until we stood her up by the glass so I could get her picture with the sharks in the background. She began to cry and said she was so scared, until she go back down on the floor and then laughed and pointed some more. We did have a little melt down because she did not want to go into the bathroom at the Aquarium before we were leaving and she wanted to go through a second time and see all the sea life again. All and all we drove 3.5 hours there, spent 3 hours looking, and drove 3.5 hours back home. The last little road trip me Jaelyn took was through NW Arkansas. We went with my Mom and Step dad again. We went to Eureka Springs to check out the Glass Cathedral, but there was a wedding going on so We didn't get to look at it. Then we drove across the last Standing Suspension Bridge in Arkansas to get to the tiny town of Beaver. From there we came across this little family chocolate factory called "Greers Candies" and stopped and tried some Chocolate. Let me just say if you ever drive through Gateway, Arkansas stop there and try some of their Candies. They even have Sugar free and it is very tasty too. All done by hand and by the same family for many years. Jaelyn then got to go through The NW Arkansas tunnel for the first time. I believe she was amazed that we had drove through a Mountain. Our final stop that day was dinner at the Cracker Barrel!
This week we have enjoyed fun a little closer to home. On the 4th we went to a cook out at some friends of ours and visited and enjoyed a huge water balloon fight. Since the burn/firework ban was in effect we enjoyed water balloons. I honestly don't think anyone there missed the fireworks at all. Jaelyn has been wanting to go fishing again, so yesterday we went to Horsehead Lake and fished for about 1 hour. Jaelyn and I didn't even get one bite, but Lonnie got a few bites and caught a pretty good size Bass. I have truly enjoyed being able to spend so much time with my family this summer.

Jae in awe of "Nemo".