To celebrate Noah’s 11th birthday, the whole family headed down to Lori’s parents’ farm in Indiana. I hadn’t been there since Jeff and Lori were married, so it had been a long time for me! And Jon and our kids had never been, so they were looking forward to it!
Lori’s parents have a perfect house for bunking all of us, with the kids and one set of adults in the finished basement, and Jon and I and Matea upstairs, and my SIL Jill upstairs as well. We had such a great time! I think this was the first of many trips to the farm!
Friday night we played outside (under the shade of a tree). We had ladder ball, the cornhole bag toss thing, and a hammock!
Matea became obsessed with Sophie the farm dog. She followed that patient little canine everywhere. Sophie handled the stalking in stride.
Meeting of the minds . . .
We went on a hayride so we could really see the farm, which included seeing, as Eli put it, “REAL COWS!” :) And real cows make lots of cow pies, but Andrew told us he preferred to call it “cow pudding.”
We got to cross a creek several times which was fun!
We found were they keep the “real” cows.
Baby cows are adorable.
One serious bull.
Then on Sunday Lori’s parents’ church hosted a slip-n-slide at the local park. This was one huge slip-n-slide down one huge, and pretty steep, hill. I didn’t think Eli would want to go down it once he saw it, but he still did. The first few times down the slide the kids were pretty slow, but once they got completely saturated with the detergent solution on the slide they were slippery little seals and went flying!
Eli at the top – that’s a LONG way down!
After the slip-n-slide and a wash off, the kids got a chance to go in the hot tub at the farm. What fun!!
Floating heads. :)
This was as close as Matea got to the water. She’s telling Noah where to kiss her feet.
Nathan ate too much for dinner.
We found Santa Claus . . . in a hot tub in Indiana.
The next morning we left the farm and headed out to Scott and Jill’s house for the rest of the week. We had such a fun visit to the farm! Games, birthdays, real cows, slip-n-slides . . . a great time!
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