Family Farm Fun

Having a pet pig (even in a farming town) is quite an anomaly, so people are always interested in hearing about Festus and meeting him. Loves the attention School Trip #1 In January, Festus visited 1st grade with Bah. We brought him at the end of the day to help the teacher avoid chaos. Right when I got there, the kids were so adorable making sure to be very calm and quiet. Bah and I had everyone sit in a circle on the floor. She then gave each of her classmates a Cheerio. I put Festus down and let him get acclimated which took about two seconds. 😀 He walked around the circle politely taking a Cheerio from each student. He did that one more time, and then the kids took turns holding him. They all (Festus included) did great; he didn't even squeal at all. I tried to get him to perform a trick, but he was more interested in investigating instead. It was a fun experience, and the best part was seeing Bah beam with joy over her sweet piggy. Passing around Festus Bah, he

Every year at the beginning of school, parents are asked to help or volunteer (if possible) for one of the holiday parties: Halloween, Christmas, or Valentine's Day. I always let the girls decide which ones they want me to help with. This year, both decided on Valentine's Day. As a result, we have 52 treats to make plus their own class Valentines and boxes. Pig and unicorn Valentine boxes Once I got the note from preschool that Boo was responsible for bringing the "eat at school" snack, I scoured Pinterest for ideas. I gave her the options of: a popcorn, marshmallow, snickers, M&M mix heart-shaped and chocolate dipped Rice Krispie treats heart-shaped sugar cookies chocolate covered strawberry cupcakes strawberry shortcake trifle cups She (not surprisingly) chose the strawberry shortcake trifle cups. This weekend we worked on getting everything baked and prepared, and on Monday we put it all together. I looked at quite a few different recipes and i

Cousin E and Bubs What do farm kids do in the winter? Not to sound too redneck, but, of course, they go out muddin' and shootin.' 😀 This Colorado January has had such crazy weather that it goes from three inches of snow to sunshine within two days. A few weekends ago, it peaked at almost 52 degrees, so we decided to head to the farm for some fun. The kids hadn't been out to the farm since harvest ended which meant they were very excited to play. Near the end of July, we upgraded our bench Gator to a two-row Ranger. While we were shopping, we bought the girls a little four wheeler for all of the hard work they had done over the summer. They were troopers out there every day helping us irrigate, giving up a family vacation to hoe pumpkins, and hardly complaining at all. Family-sized ride Since we bought it so late in the summer and then got busy with back to school and the opening of Pumpkins and More A-maiz-ing Farm , they didn't have much time to play w