A Trip To The Farm

Mike and Amy have a Chinese exchange student so they are desiring to give him as many experiences that are new to him in Virginia that he would not get in the big city of Beijing. 

 We have a distant cousin who owns and runs a dairy farm.  She lives a few miles away from my mom and dad's house.  So one Sunday afternoon we decided to visit her to see the process of milking.

 Glen just loved the cats (and there were plenty of kittens to go around).  He would say "I pet this a-kitty,  Now I pet this a-kitty.  Now I pet this a-kitty..."  you get the idea.  He had so many a-kittys to pet!

 Grace got to bottle feed some very eager and hungry calves.

 Glen found a tractor and he decided that he must sit in it.

 Grace did not want to be left out.  So she sat in it too.

 Glen stood beside the huge tractor saying "tractor, I drive."  Yeah, maybe in a few years buddy!

It was a fun day on the farm.  Thank you Vonda!

Play in the rain...YES!

Why should rain hinder play?  It does not at mamaw's house.

You just need a bucket bath before you come into the house.

 But my, it is fun while you can be covered in mud!

Camping Trip

In August we went camping at Lewis Mountain in Skyline Drive.

 We were lucky enough to get a great campsite that had a trail to a field behind it.  Not only that, but the field had three HUGE downed trees that the kids used as a playground.

 Climbing over, climbing on, crawling over, they had so much fun.

 We arrived early Saturday and left early Sunday but it was a nice relaxing time and it showed us that our kids adapted well, and loved camping.

 I brought along some sidewalk chalk.  One of the activities that we did was Grace helped me collect rocks and we drew pictures on them with chalk.

 Glen helped us collect some sticks, that is until he got distracted by how tall trees are.

 This is one of the three downed trees.  So glad that we had it for the kids to play on.

 SMORES!

 Grace was trying to be so very careful around the fire.  I am not even sure her marshmallow got warm.

 Glen was content to play with the leaves.

 Then he decided that a fun activity would be to crawl this parking block over and over and over.

 Story time in the tent, then off to bed.  What a great trip!