Mother Nature's Farm Field Trip

 

Thursday, was "THE DAY" for one of Spencer's preschools field trip to the "pumpkin patch" -- it was fun to watch the kids enjoy the farm as much as they did -- picking the "perfect pumpkin" and then decorating it with stickers and all of their friends. What a fun way to spend a Thursday morning! Us mom's had a fun time too, there are six kids in our ward that go to the same preschool, and it was nice to have company for the day!

 

 

 

The farm had a bouncer and a tractor ride and animals to feed. Spencer really liked feeding the cows, but the pigs were entertaining to him too. He was pretty excited about the pigs, "Mama! Mama! Pigs say oink! Mama, Pigs say Oink!!" Love it!

That evening, we had our annual Kristin Manor Halloween Party -- we do it outside my house and I am always concerned that no one will come, but last night, we had a great turn out of lot's of neighbors and friends to meet and get reacquainted with!

Winter in Arizona

For all you cold weather dwellers, get ready to be jealous!!! Today, Jake overseeded our front yard

 

Spencer was worried about the cow poop, and it getting enough water. . .cup, by cup he was trying to water our front yard. . .

 

This makes me so excited to see the greeen oranges -- they are going to be ripe sooner than not, now oranges ripened on the tree are simply divine, and I have been anxiously anticipating the first one being ready. . .

 

 

It is still hot down here, but we are anxiously awaiting our "winter"!!

Goldfield Mine

This week is our fall break. The boys have the week off school and mom has decided every day we need to do something! So, today, we went on an outing to Goldfield mine.

 

Goldfield Mine is a ghost town located abot twenty minutes from our house. It has a spectacular view of the Superstition Mountains. I also has a narrow guage train and a mine tour that you can go on, as well as many other attractions. We went on the train ride, it was all right, a twenty minute ride around the city and they did show you many of the sites and told some interesting facts about the area -- did you know the stage coach to Mesa from their was 5 hours?!

 

Our favorite was the gold mine tour -- the character that took us on the tour was someone that you could see as an old miner and they took you through a "mock mine" and you got a real view of what mines looked like in the late 1800's and some of the things that they did during those years. The guide had lot's of fun tidbits to add, and was engaging to the kids and the people going on the tour. The only draw back for the trip was really that they didn't take credit or debit cards, and I only had about 30 dollars. . . still it kept the boys happy for about 2 1/2 hours. Next time we go, the boys want to go pan for gold and go through the reptile museum. . . Jake will have to go next time. Reptiles and me, no thanks!