Penny Walk

One of our family's favorite things to do is a Penny Walk. If you've never tried it, you should. We have been on some pretty interesting walks together. If you've never heard of such a thing, the concept is simple. You bring along a penny and everytime you come to any sort of intersection or side street, etc. you stop and flip the penny. Heads means you walk right and tails means you walk left. Sometimes we have to modify it if there isn't a right and left so we may end up choosing between going left or keeping forward. And that's all there is to it. So for family home evening the other night, Spencer begged us for a Penny Walk. It was such a warm day and we thought it would be fun to see the remaining fall colors. For some reason my pictures loaded all out of order, (I'm on Kalen's computer today and I must have done something wrong), but you can still see all the fun we had. This particular walk took us through most of the college campus. This was a cool squirrel we saw. We have a lot of black squirrels in Michigan but we liked the white tip of his tail.

This was actually in a tree in front of our house while we were still waiting for everyone to gather. If only Lynnsey would have smiled like this for her school pictures, I wouldn't be sending her for retakes!

And here's Kendall in the same tree. I never worry about his school pictures which did turn out fantastic and which I will be posting very soon.

Kaya only made it partway through the walk before she decided to take a little siesta.

We made it through with only a minor mishap. Poor Lynnsey was happily running ahead and caught her shoe on an uneven part of the sidewalk. She was on the ground before anyone could catch her. She was pretty sad but didn't want us to go home, so we actually kept walking for another half an hour.

This was such a beautiful crab apple tree with the red apples and red leaves. We also saw a yellow one with yellow leaves too. The fall colors in Michigan have been breathtaking this year.

This was the clan at the beginning of the walk--minus me of course. I'm always much more comfortable behind the camera. I loved Lynnsey's walking stick. Too bad she tossed it aside before she scraped her knee. It might have come in handy.

And here's the most important part of the evening--our penny. Spencer loved when it was his turn to toss it. Usually though, we had to search through the grass where it always seemed to land after he threw it up in the air with all of his might.

It was a really fun adventure and an absolutely beautiful evening. We actually enjoyed ourselves so much that it was dark before we made it home.