A Happy Mommies Day Indeed

This emu's name was Blue.

A few of the emus gathered together on the farm. Have you heard these guys before? They have this throaty call, sounds a lot like a drum. They say that in the fall it gets really loud!

You can only imagine that this was the favorite of our little cowgirl.

We have a little hill in our yard. Emers loves to run down it.

We sing a little song often in our house.......it goes something like this, "I wanna be, just like you, I wanna be, just like you, I wanna be, just like you because I love you." Little copycats!




Mommy loving on her sweet babies. The stick, you might ask......Emerald's imagination is huge! She was making it go up and down with all of us. We were "taking a carriage ride with Bobby" (see earlier post of her carriage ride with Heidi and Jeff).



Daddy keeping the kids away from the electric fence. Calvin was ready to go touch the alpaca.



These are beautiful animals that live about a mile from us. Their eyes are just amazing to look at. We are so happy to be able to share this type of activity with the kids.



This was a pigny (spelling?) goat. Emerald thought it was the funniest thing in the world that he would be all curled up in his food dish. The farmer gave us treats to feed the goats, but they were too busy sleeping.

This was as close as we got to the llamas. Too much spitting. There were quite a few emus at this farm.



We spent the day relaxing together for Mother's Day. Heidi and I went shopping on Saturday (how fun is that). Then, after church we went on a farm tour in our county. We visited 3 different farms. In our adventures, we saw emus, alpacas, chickens, goats, llamas, horses, cows, and a variety of plants. Calvin really thought they were all "dogs" (reminds me of Emerald calling everything "moos" when she was his age. The kids had a great time seeing a different variety of animals. Skip and I had such a great time watching their wonder, awe, and curiosity.


Happy 3rd birthday Sam! We miss you. Both Jamison and Jack turn 1 this week. What sweet little boys!