A Farm experiance...

A few months ago my sister and I arranged to take by mom and my Rochester Grands to a "farm", but it's not just any old farm, read an excerpt from the website below...

"Nestled in the beautiful hills of the St Croix River Valley, Rusty Bucket Acres offers a must see and visit, farm experience. You won’t find anything like it anywhere else. A visit to the farm will fill your bucket with hands-on animal interactions, educational and historical lessons and a renewed energy.  All the animals at the farm are completely socialized and want to share time with you. Experience the farm, learn about its transformations and make memories". 

My mom (a farm girl)  lit-up and loved all the animals, a the end of our time there it was hard to pry her away!  She still talks about the experiance...she loved it.

The goats love people, the feeling is mutual.

The donkey giving Carson a hug

The cow having some lunch

The goats loved my mom's walker

So much fun for these two!

A Horse, cow, pig, alpaca's, chickens, ducks, dogs, donkeys, sheep and goats,

 they are all male(except the dogs) and have human names. 

There is time to sit in the pasture with the animals, they love to be loved-on, you can not escape them, but then why would you? This is a very fun experiance and I hope to take mom again some day. 

Click on the highlighted wesite above to read about the farm, you wont regret this experiance.

 

Time with the littles.

Recently, Rick and I spent some special time with out littles. 

Summers are busy with cabin stuff, sports and vacations, 

so we snatched them up when the time was right and just enjoyed being together. 

These 4 are growing up way too fast, 

We have a 7th, 3rd and 1st grader and a 2nd year preschooler this year.

One day we did some back to school shopping with Audrey & Carson!

Grandpa and Carson hung out at Scheel's while Audrey and I hit the shops.

We have been shopping buds for a long time.

Audrey probably about 3 

We enjoyed watching Carson play soccer again this summer, he's a good little athlete.

I even got to go to Oxbow zoo one day with Brianna and  Carson.

We had lunch after, It was fun to hang out with these two!

Last weekend Rick and I, traveled up to the Twin Cities and grabbed our 

grands for a day of adventure.

We heard about this fun farm with a real-pasture experiance called rustybucket-acres

We were the only ones at the farm (as they take reservations) so we had one-on-one attention from Shelly & Lorna. 

Rusty Bucket is a real farm with animals that we got to mingle with.

Alpaca's, Goats, lambs, donkeys, chickens, a pig, ducks and a horse. 

Scarlett was into it 100%, 

The animals sensed her affection for them and they just cuddled right up to her, 

she even got to collect some eggs in the hen house.

Lewin...not so much, he is so much smaller and most of the animals were bigger than him. 

He was a little hesitant and stuck close to Grandpa.

After the farm we had lunch and then found a fun park on Roseville.

The kids loved it

We did a little hiking and found this tree fort, again very fun for the kids.

Those of you who are grandparents know the joy of spending time with them. 

(We do not take for granted that ours are very close, and easy to get to).

When we are not with them, we are still thinking about them and praying for them everyday

We are blessed by our four littles and look forward to the adventures to come.

What are your favorite things to do with the grandkids.

Its not always big stuff, sometimes it's just a walk or a campfire or playing games.

It the being-together that matter   :)