Our Visit to the Farm to See Aunt and Uncle

Last week C, O and I made the trek home to my parents' farm to see my sister (Auntie Kate) and her husband (Uncle Lane).  It was super fun and the boys had a great time staying up until 10:00 p.m. (not by my choice).  It was nice and hot and we played outside all the time!  We celebrated their birthday by having cake and singing Happy Birthday. They got to open a lot of great presents with a Lightening McQueen theme.  Nana and Papa got them these super cool balance bikes!  The boys loved them and "rode" them around the farm.

 

Nana and Papa bring out the balance bikes for C & O.  They were eager to get on.

 

Chase uses his feet to stand up while on his bike.

Papa walks with Owen down the sidewalk.

 

Nana and Chase ride up the sidewalk.

Owen was so proud that he could walk the bike by himself.  He is way more cautious than Chase and preferred to have his feet solidly planted on the ground.

 

Papa helping Owen the first time he rode the bike.

 

Uncle Lane helps Chasey.

 

Papa and Chase

 

Chase examines his bike.

 

Another trip up the sidewalk and down.

There were 5 super cute 5 week old kittens that the boys fell in love with.  They had to go see the "tikkies" (which is what Chase called them) and Owen called, "Here Kitty". 

 

Chase holds "his" orange cat we named Tiger.  He loved that cat.  He cradled him and called him a baby.  The kitten was so good and let Chase do whatever.

 

Auntie Kate helps Owen with his kitty.

 

Owen fell in love with this little dark tiger kitty.  We named his Pete because it is something I knew the boys could say.  There were 4 Petes and only 1 orange cat.

 

Owen loved to find the kittens. He would walk back in the bushes and call for the kittens and search them out.  He loved to find them and sit on the steps with them.

My friend Brandon has some cattle at our farm.  He took the boys and I out on the dirt (yes dirt) minimum maintenance road to see his cows.  The boys looked and looked and when one bellered they wanted out of there.  They enjoyed the ride on the Gator. 

 

Owen helped Kate paint the fence while in his undies.

Chase helped Nana

 

What a great job Chase did.

 

We went to a friends' farm and fed the baby calf a bottle.  The boys were just as scared of the small calf as they were of the big cows.

 

The last night we were there the boys got very silly while eating. They shoved a bunch of shredded cheese into their mouths and were just laughing and laughing at each other.  The adults couldn't figure out what was so funny!  It was funny watching them though.

 

Uncle Lane and my Dad are fireworks freaks and every year (and Christmas) we light off a bunch of fireworks-since they are legal in SD.  These are big smoke bombs, which the boys loved. They also did fun snaps and got hunt down some parachutes that were launched out of a bottle rocket.

 

Owen