My wards Mom and tots sent an email about going to the Superstition Farm (just down the road from our neighborhood), a working dairy farm. It was held Friday and Saturday to celebrate 30 years of cow milking business. Seeing that I am a lucky wife of a night shift working husband... I had Tim come with all of us women and kids. I knew it would be too fun to pass up... It was. There were cows, horses, ponies, donkey, goats, chickens, bunnies and turkeys! Along with hay rides, horse/pony rides, feeding the animals, pumpkins, hay maze, good food and free milk!
We started off by seeing the new little baby cows. Some kids even got to feed them bottles, they are so cute when they are babies.
Then it was straight to the first horse that Abbey could find! We got to feed and pet the horse and goats along with seeing all the other animals. The miniature donkey was another Abbey favorite thanks to Shrek!
Next was a ride on the ponies. Abbey rode Gracie and was soooo excited. I tried to point out that there were big horses across from us that we could ride (you know, trying to save five bucks by having just one ride instead of both!). But she was so focused on the ponies right in front of her that she didn't even notice me! This was her first real ride on a pony that wasn't mom and dad on all fours! She wasn't scared one bit. In fact, she wanted me to go away and not follow with her... so independent! Ab's really got into the ride with Ye haw's and Giddy ups!
When the ponies slowed down and before she even got off she spotted the big horses across the way... here she is pointing to them.
So since I was a horse lover as a little girl, and knew it would make Abbey's dreams come true, we went on the big horses too. I had fun riding with her, but must admit felt a little unsteady on the horse. It didn't help that Abbey didn't want me to hold on to the horn with her and our horse was a little jumpy. It was worth it though, we were filmed by a channel 12 news guy and after the ride he asked Tim and me to answer a few questions for him. Our interview was grossly edited (as we knew it would be!) but we made it on the 6 pm news! Kind of embarrassing! Here we are getting on for Abbey's first horse ride.
Abbey wanted to ride the horse with the pink, she mentioned it the whole hour we waited in line. Thank goodness we were able to!
After our horse rides, what better than some free cold chocolate milk?
or plain for dad!
Before heading out I took a few fun pictures of Abbey. Here she is on the tractor... she loved how the seat bounced.
What a great day for a little animal lover, look at that tired and satisfied look on her face! We all had a lot of fun.
2 comments:
The baby cows ARE cute! Next thing you know, Abbey will be playing vet with her stuffed animals. I love how she smiles now for pictures... she's growing up so fast! It's so funny how you guys were on the news... that was fun to watch. I'm glad you didn't fall off the horse when Abbey wouldn't let you hold on to the horn. I think I'm the only one in the family who's fallen off of one... lets keep it that way!
Oh man, that would've been fun to come to that! Wyatt would've loved seeing all of the animals...riding them, now that's a different story. Abbey is adorable as always.
PS-You guys are totally famous now.
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