family sandwich: And on this farm he had a, plywood painted cow with plastic udders....

Not far from the house there is this nice little farm that has a kinds of fun activities going on in the month of October. Bales of hay, bright red barns, pumpkins everywhere, I love it. When we first walked into the farm they had all their pumpkins out on bales of hay. Emma was so excited to see the baby pumpkins and tried to hold as many as she could fit into her arms. I love seeing my babies with their chubby little hands around a pumpkin. To me it is one of my top ten fall sights.

However we weren't there to get a pumpkin that day so we headed into the farm. We had barely walked through when Hunter darted off to the left. When I looked to see what he was doing I couldn't help but laugh.

There sitting on a milking stool next to a plywood painted cow he was squeezing water out of plastic udders into a bucket. "Mom, look this is so cool it just like teaches you the real way to milk a cow on a farm" he was thoroughly intrigued. Once Ave came around the corner and saw it she ran over and started milking on the other side. Rides, bounce houses, animals and these two were having fun seeing who could squeeze out more water and accidentally/purposefully squirting each other with it.

We headed over to a game called Conk the Crow where Hunter showed off his pitching skills. The girls tried to which ended up resulting in a lot of bean bag recovering for mom and dad.

Then off to the good ol bounce house to get some energy out.

Hunter really wanted to do the corn maze which from the aerial view is a pretty cool depiction of Angry Birds. However it was way too big and corn fields as far as condusive to stroller travel, yeah not so much. We found the first two check points and then focused on finding our way back out. Hunter made sure to remind us that it was okay since he had already done the World's Largest Maze this summer in Oahu.

We went over and rode these big pedal bikes. It was great because even Avery could drive her own. We may have not paid attention to the sign and played just a little bit of bumper cars with them before we saw it and had to tell the kids to stop.

We stopped for a little drink break and then headed off to see some animals.

When we went over to see the geese they all started waddling over to get a drink. Deke made a noise at them and they all stopped, looked at him and started responding. Deke would make the noise again and again they would honk back to him. The rest of us tried different gooselike noises but they were silent. Yet everytime Deke would do it they would they would not only talk back but look right at him and tilt their heads to the side. It was so hilarious. The kids were very impressed that dad could communciate with them.

We saw the baby chicks in their little coop and of course got to pet a cow.

I loved that the chickens and goats had their own Golden Goat Bridge in their pen with them.

Aside from the cow milking probably one of the second favorite things for the kids was the old fashioned teeter totters. They had so much fun on these.

We even let Em take a turn. Everytime she went up in the air because she is so much lighter than Hunter or Ave she would bounce up way high. Then she would start belly laughing so hard. It was sweet.