The Farm

Last week we went to The Farm in Fort Collins with Jack's sister Julie and her family. We had a great time. The farm is a petting zoo-- well, really more like a feeding zoo. It is a cute little farm with chickens, goats, sheep, horses, cows, pigs and ducks, as well as displays of working and non-functioning farm equipment. The kids could pet the animals through the fences, but there wasn't anywhere for them to enter the pens and interact with the animals. But that's okay by me!

The kids all had a great time pumping water from the old water pump. It took Uncle Will to get the water moving before any of the kids could get it going, though. Rebecca is lifting that bale of hay behind her using a rope an pulley system. She and Miriam both liked to show us how strong they were!

Miriam and Rebecca were both experts at feeding the animals. The goats were really the only animals interested in eating out of their hands. Of course, they thought it tickled and felt kind of yucky when the goats licked the oats out of their hands.

I fed a goat a couple times to show Joseph what the idea was. Then I held out my hand to give him some oats to feed the goats. He proceeded to put it in his mouth. Hey, the goats liked it! Joseph, however, didn't think it was that great and proceeded to spit it out.

We witnessed the truth of the old adage that a goat will eat anything. While we were feeding the goats, a goat next to us took a little girl's whole bag of oats and proceeded to eat the whole thing. Bag and all. She was distraught. Poor thing!

Nearly the whole time we were at The Farm, Joseph was running. I think he was just fascinated by everything going on. He wanted to see everything right now. This is one of the only pictures I got of his face. The rest are of the back of his head as he ran away from me. He and Sebastian are shaking the fence around the cage.

We had a fun little picnic there as well. The kids picked the red table in the sun even though there was an unpainted one in the shade right next to it. They ended up moving halfway through lunch when they got too hot!

They all loved the tractor so we got pictures of them on it. How fun!

Once again, I can't seem to get Miriam's face in a picture!

Joseph was content just sitting on the tractor floor.

Did I say all the kids loved the tractor? Hmm, all but Sebastian. He screamed whenever anyone tried to put him on it.

We had a great time seeing the animals and spending time with family!