Here is Talmage and Anya doing the hay jump. It looks like something is wrong with the video setting on my camera. I was using the old camera and really missed having zoom and obviously good video. Sorry. Anya is the first video and Talmage is the second.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
A Day At The Farm
Talmage had a couple days off of school so we decided to visit the American West Heritage Center just outside of town. They were having their Fall Festival. We spent all day there and the kids had so much fun.
We rode on the little train a few times. Here is a picture of the kids crammed in the caboose with a bunch of other kids.
The kids made corn darts. You draw a circle on the lawn and through them like darts.
Here they are standing outside the barn (where they got to milk a cow) with their corn husk dolls. They love these dolls!
They played with the goats for quite some time. These goats were the calmest I've ever seen.
Some of the other exciting things we did were a covered wagon ride, pony rides, corn maze, blackout maze, looking at all the historical buildings and seeing the demonstrations of things like a cider press, spinning wheel, scone making, wood working, and so much more. Anya especially loved hay jumping. She is so fearless. Talmage liked the wood shop and a nice volunteer that pulled out all his musical instruments to show Talmage because he showed so much interest in them. Talmage learned about lots of folk instruments and now wants to collect them too. It was a really fun day. The only thing we were missing was Aaron to share it all with. The kids are excited to take him there next year though. And Talmage is planning to bring his harmonica so he and the kind old volunteer can play some music together.
We rode on the little train a few times. Here is a picture of the kids crammed in the caboose with a bunch of other kids.
The kids made corn darts. You draw a circle on the lawn and through them like darts.
Here they are standing outside the barn (where they got to milk a cow) with their corn husk dolls. They love these dolls!
They played with the goats for quite some time. These goats were the calmest I've ever seen.
Some of the other exciting things we did were a covered wagon ride, pony rides, corn maze, blackout maze, looking at all the historical buildings and seeing the demonstrations of things like a cider press, spinning wheel, scone making, wood working, and so much more. Anya especially loved hay jumping. She is so fearless. Talmage liked the wood shop and a nice volunteer that pulled out all his musical instruments to show Talmage because he showed so much interest in them. Talmage learned about lots of folk instruments and now wants to collect them too. It was a really fun day. The only thing we were missing was Aaron to share it all with. The kids are excited to take him there next year though. And Talmage is planning to bring his harmonica so he and the kind old volunteer can play some music together.
Logan
As many of you know the kids and I are now living in Logan, Utah. We are looking forward to Aaron joining us in the next few weeks. He is still finishing up many things in San Antonio. And we are still working on selling our house there. When Aaron gets here, he will continue to work for USAA. He'll just do it remotely from his own little office in our new rental home. He will also be applying to the Computer Science PhD program at USU. So he'll continue to be as busy as ever.
We are very excited about this move. Talmage is enjoying his new school. He is loving 2nd grade and has transitioned from home school to charter school very nicely. Anya loves having more space from him during the day and more one on one time with me. But when he gets home they definitely want to play together. We have been taking advantage of the nice weather by exploring the local parks. It has been so nice to see the trees changing color. We really missed this time of year while we were in San Antonio. Talmage is hoping for snow soon, but I hope it will hold off until after Aaron drives the big moving van up here. We should also figure out snow clothes soon.
We are very excited about this move. Talmage is enjoying his new school. He is loving 2nd grade and has transitioned from home school to charter school very nicely. Anya loves having more space from him during the day and more one on one time with me. But when he gets home they definitely want to play together. We have been taking advantage of the nice weather by exploring the local parks. It has been so nice to see the trees changing color. We really missed this time of year while we were in San Antonio. Talmage is hoping for snow soon, but I hope it will hold off until after Aaron drives the big moving van up here. We should also figure out snow clothes soon.
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