New Kids on the...Farm!

About a year ago, Brandon and I were seriously thinking about moving from our "city" life to a home with some acreage...we wanted to do this because we absolutely love the "country" life. Well, also around one year ago, we were thinking about having a baby and I told Brandon that we needed to stick to one life changing decision at a time...and you all obviously know what we decided to go with! So, what helped us make this decision....we know of a place that is only around a 15 minute drive from our house, where we can live the "country" life, but we don't have to worry about the maintenance of acreage or animals or outbuildings, or any of the other part of the "country" life that we weren't 100% sold on devoting our lives to!

So...Where does every little boy (and grown up) have their very own pair of mud boots to tromp around the land in? Where do all of the Grandkids (and even some kids that aren't grandkids) get to spend four days every summer at summer camp? Where are there walking trails named after Parker, Cooper, Cameron, and soon to be Andrew? Where do we get our FRESH eggs every week (and sometimes even more often)? Where are there around a dozen chickens to feed, chase, and run from? Where do the dogs get to roam free and run until their legs can't go any further? Where does Brandon go snake hunting...often finding snakes to catch and show to the little boys (while I run indoors to keep a wall between me and that snake)? Where do we roast hotdogs in the summer time and the winter time?! Where is there a campsite just for us with our very own climbing tree? Where can the little boys spend hours chasing and tackling their grandpa? Where is there a hammock that often turns into a swing or a flipper of little boys? Where do you get to pick pears off of the pear tree and turn around and feed them to the goats that are eagerly awaiting a special treat from the boys? Where does Parker get to go and learn how to work hard and have fun? Well....while this list goes on and on...I better tell you (if you haven't already guessed) where this wonderful "country" side is!! It's at Grandma Robbie and Grandpa Mahlon's farm, of course!

While there are all of these fun things happening at the farm, there is one more exciting event that just happened at the farm! THREE of the five goats at the farm just had KIDS! And, these goats didn't just have one kid.....they had a total of SEVEN baby goats!!! The first to have their kids, had triplets! The very next day, we had to tromp out to "the farm" and see these sweet baby goats and they are the cutest little things!! As you can see from these pictures, Parker loves the farm and always wants to go out and see the animals.

So, CONGRATULATIONS Mom and Mahlon on raising the "goaties" that had the new kids on the farm! We are excited to watch them grow and to have even more animals on the farm!!