Down on Grandpa's Farm

Oh! What a great time we had on the farm!! Miles and Lydia and Faith adore the sheep and the little lambs and also Grandma's toys and Grandpa's four wheeler. We enjoyed hay rides, feeding sheep, milking sheep (barely! Mom and Dad were usually done by the time we got up!), roasting hot dogs, marshmallows/s'mores and cooking bread over the fire, playing at the park, chasing rams into pasture and several rides on the four wheeler! We enjoyed the serene messages and music from General Conference and that uplifting feeling that you can only comes when listening, without judgement, to a servant of the Lord. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was fun to play bingo with my kids as we listened for certain words that the speakers were saying.

This little "Cutes" loves her Grandma and Grandpa! 

Just playin it cool on the motorcycle. 

....and then there's Cheeser.....

Lydia had fun playing Bocci Ball with the grown ups. Also getting stuck in the basket ball hoop thing that Aunt Rachel thought it would be fun to help her climb up into. And we wore the kids out by having them race to the swimming pool building across the park a couple of times.

Bear Hunts with Grandma! 

" 'anna eat a pants!?"
 ("Want to eat my pants?")

She just was so adorable in her little boots and shirt. Melts my heart! She loved those little lambies, especially "Frodo". A sweet little black ram that my parents named. He was pretty much dead, and my Mom nursed him back to life and he was just the cutest little thing and so friendly.

My Own Sweet Little Lambies....holding Lambies.....

We had fun bringing these little ones into the barn every night. One night, we were up playing games and I thought I heard the kids crying on the baby monitor so I opened up the door and was met with an overwhelming bleating sound from downstairs. I looked at Dad, who immediately put on a face of concern. "Sounds like a commotion." I think were the words he uttered as he quickly got up from the table. We all rushed downstairs and found that one of the doors had been blown open and all of the lambs that we had gathered in from one of the pins were out lookin for their mothers and their mothers were bleating loudly as they looked for their babies. It certainly WAS a commotion! :) hahaha. We quickly gathered them all back in and secured the door tightly.

Farm Life's the Life For Me.....

...here we go! .....Awwwww Ya! 

She is my thrill seeker. :) 

...."Oh! Hi Mom!" 

Herding Sheep

Someone was quite upset when Grandpa got off the four wheeler to herd the rams into a different pasture and didn't come back for a while. Lydia ran to her rescue when she heard her crying. It was a cute sister moment.

as they drove off, Lydia looked at Grandma and mouthed, nervously through clenched teeth, "I have to go to the bathroom!...."

The pretty rainbow on our drive home.

The Shepherds, themselves! I love these shots of them with their "Jack Sparrow".