Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Mother Nature's Farm

Decorating Pumpkins


My little pumpkins

Riding on his tractor!
Hay Ride
The farm animals
Baby chicks with my baby chick
Sweet Taylor
Tractor boy!


I just love fall...even in Arizona where we don't have leaves that change or cool, crisp air. It's just a feeling I get this time of year.....I'm happy, really happy during the fall.

Today was a fall kind of day. I woke up early and got the kids ready to play at the pumpkin patch. We were supposed to meet friends there later on in the day but I purposely got there early so that I could take pictures of the kids (before they were distracted by friends) and spend a little bit of alone time with them. It was such a beautiful morning. 75ish degrees and sunny.

When we first arrived, there was a little tiny chicken cage (later, Mason reminded me that it's a coop, not a cage). It was full of baby chicks. SO cute, the kids loved them and I was a little tempted to buy one and bring him home. Then I remembered that I'd probably kill it since I don't know how to take care of chickens. Fresh eggs would be nice though.

We sat on the tractor and took some pictures, played in the pumpkin patch area for awhile until our friends arrived. Then we did the bounce castle, hayride, play houses, pumpkin decorating, hay maze and checked out some farm animals. (The kid driving the tractor for the hayride was hilarious). It was such a fun day to spend outside in the fresh air. I love Mother Nature's Farm. We also are going to Schnepf farm again this year. I like to do both. Mother Nature's is less expensive and less commercialized. Schnepf is fun though too because it's bigger, has rides and a chile festival. Pictures to come soon from Schnepf!

My favorite part was watching my kids play with all of their best Casa Grande friends. We miss them so much and I miss their mommies, Jennifer, Kim and Carrie! Luckily we don't live THAT far away and we have some play days coming up so that means more time to chat with my best girls.

Tired! Today has been full of fun stuff. I purposely schedule lots of activities so that I'm not bored and the kids aren't sitting around all day, but it's tiring. We don't have a whole lot of down time around here. Just today I made breakfast and lunch to take to the farm, I took the kids to the farm for 5 hours, did 2 loads of laundry, unpacked and cleaned the car from the farm day, took the kids to the park next to the house to play with neighborhood friends, I'm about to cook dinner and then tonight Drew has gymnastics and all three kids need a bath. It's exhausting but it's all worth it. I have the most wonderful kids in the world! I'm going to miss them when they go back to school next Wednesday!

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