On the Farm

Vince's mom was born and raised in Greenville on a dairy farm.  Her nephew now owns and operates the same farm as a cattle farm. We drove by his mom's property that she still owns near the farm and decided to stop by and see if his cousin, Tim was home on the farm.  Tim, his brother, Bobby Joe, and their other cousin, Jackie, were all there working to winterize things before the nightly frost. They were all working hard, so I think they welcomed the short interruption.

Bobby Joe let out a loud, "whoooeeeeee!" and the cows came running to the fence.  Alex and Evan loved it.  The cows were mooing loudly on their stampede to get fed.  Tim fed the cows right at the fence line and then held each boy to pet the cows.  Jackie and Vince took some great pictures for us.

Evan was held first and Alex was adamant it was his turn.  He kept saying, "cow."

They kept smiling and watching the cows eat.

The old dairy barn is behind us. It is no longer in use as the cows are now corn fed and sold for beef.  Alex was upset that we had to leave.  He kicked and screamed the whole way back to the car. In a few years I may let him stay the day & help the cousins with all the farm work.

One of the cousins suggested I get a pet cow for the boys and I answered that I wouldn't mind as long as it was in the form of filet mignon. 

Evan's First Field Trip

Evan went on his first ever field trip with his school this week.  Every Thursday they have miniature horses come to the school for his class to brush and pet.  Yesterday, he rode the bus (for the first time ever!) with three other classes to Hope Remains Youth Ranch. They got to ride on the big horses, go on a wagon ride, play on their playground, and brush the miniature horses.

I followed behind the bus with the other parents in a line of cars.

The school nurse went along with the group and carried Evan off of the bus.

His class went on the wagon ride first. He sat with his assistant teacher, Mrs. Lori. 

They then rode the big horses.  Evan did not want to put on the helmet, but once he was on the horse named Tracker, he was happy, and then said "helmet on" when I took it off of him.  

They next went to the playground, but Evan did not participate much.  He wanted to eat the dirt and rocks.  He did find a few numbers on the Dora mats they had laid out.

Lastly, they brushed the miniature horses and some of the kids led them around.  Evan was just wanting to eat the sawdust so he was quite a handful.  Overall he had a fun time.

He is the only boy in his classroom. Don't they look sweet?!

Yearly Pictures

Every year my friend Jessie (Smilin Down Photography) does a fabulous job capturing our family in pictures.  The boys are at a difficult picture taking age.  They wanted to run free around the yard & not be held down.  Somehow she managed to snag some excellent images. Some of these will be showing up on our Christmas card soon.

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween this year.  Vince was able to finish the boys' car so they could ride in it around the neighborhood while Vince controlled it. They loved it & stayed content! The neighbors loved it as well.  We started off the evening at our HOA pre-Halloween party where we met many new neighbors, ate pizza, and started off trick or treating.

 Alex loved going door to door to ask for candy.  He even picked a handful of mums out of a neighbor's pot on her steps.  Evan ran all the way into one house so we got a nice tour of one of our neighbor's houses.

 They got quite the haul for only going to about 10 - 12 houses.  I let them eat a few plain M&Ms.

 Vince was dressed as a race car driver since he was in charge of the remote controlled car.

 Our candy dish was empty in the hour we were walking around the neighborhood.  I got back just in time to hand out more candy to several waves of children.