Fall Field Trips

Although the weather has still felt very much like summer we did a couple Field Trips recently to ring in the fall!

Fog Willow Pumpkin & Science Farm

After explaining how they sheer a lamb, make yarn, then wool and told us to go home and find something wool we have one of the kids in our group says in a sad tone...

"we don't have sheep so our home won't have any wool"

learning to groom the sheep

Did you know alpaca's wait in line to use the bathroom in one place...

they don't like a messy living environment.

We deal a lot with Hay these days (Oat Hay, Alfalfa and more) but on this trip we learned how they make the straw bales for lining animals cages. I'm always surprised how interesting I find o

Learned about Goats and played with LOTS of themPracticing our poses!

And here is the group we went with. I met one of the moms recently at Awana's and she invited our family to join them. They were all very sweet and we are so glad we went. Adia was there to help me (and get out of doing all her school that day) and she was so embarrassed that the moms wanted her in this picture.

Obviously Kaden had a great time or he would NEVER have fallen asleep over 2 hours before nap time. He's SO CUTE!!!!!

Apple Hill

Denver Dan's Apple Pie Baking Class

The pies turned out great and all the kids had a blast!

The staff was so friendly and the lady who taught the class was AWESOME!

Oh and my kids would be so bothered if I left out there favorite part...

My kids are a bunch of hicks and they can't get enough animals!

And from our home to yours...

yes, there was candy in that dish - hmmm... where did it go? Kaden!

A Busy Weekend...

Last Friday I helped out taking Adia's class on a field trip. From there I drove to San Jose to drop Adia off, hit a dinner with family and a friend and then came home early the next day with Tammy's girls in tow. Here are some pictures of the fun!

Adia's class visiting an assisted living home. They visit this home once a month and are enjoying getting to know the residents. The served snacks and recited some poetry. They also got to ask the residents what it was like to have lived during the time of segregation and what it was like for them when MLK Jr. was around. Very interesting!

For Adia's birthday she had asked for a trip to San Jose and here she is enjoying the first day of it. How do I have such a hick???

Those of you who have known me since the days I lived in SJ will know the joy I felt at being inside of this restaurant after almost 5 years without it. So was it as good as I remembered? YES! And the company was wonderful as well. And if you are wondering if I have grown out of beans and cheese the answer is no.

Here are Tammy's girls, a friend and my kiddos enjoying some creative time!

It was a fun weekend for sure!