Earth Day, 2008

Our family tries to live as if each day were Earth Day. But we're not ones to turn down a celebration, so we try to honor Earth Day on April 22nd of every year. Our annual traditions include reading the book Common Ground and taking some pictures of tree hugging. Last year we hugged some trees in Philadelphia, this year we stayed home. The children did paintings of our planet, then Jacob and Lauryn picked up trash alongside our road. We were surprised at how much we found on a relatively short stretch of our rural road. We were disgusted to see that the majority of what we found were cigarette butts. Yuck. To round out Earth Day, we have Chase in his appropriately colored cast. He has a radial fracture in his arm from a soccer incident. And he has the cast to prove it.