Visit to the Farm!

On August 6th we were able to go out to the farm and visit with my sister, and brother and their children. My brother's oldest two are raising animals for the Antelope Valley Fair which starts this week. We are excited to go watch them show their animals and see how well they do.

Steven hasn't been around farm animals at all and so this was a new experience. The cousins had to take photos with their animals and so went out with them and see the animals. They at first put the pigs into their little arena and were washing them off. Little Steven of course didn't realize that these animals were much larger than him and of course muddy (all pigs are, they don't have sweat glands except around their hoofs and snouts and so to cool off they roll around in mud). I could see where this little adventure would take us so he had to stay out with me.

His cousin Lucas who is a few months younger than him who is around the animals all the time of course went into the arena. As the pigs were getting washed off for the photos one proceeded to run over Lucas making him one muddy mess from top to bottom. Luckily time passes and mud washes off and it wasn't soon before he got right back to "helping" with the animals.

So we got to see Candy the horse who has been around since I was 14. By the way I turned 31 this year so not only am I old, but so is this horse. She has always been so sweet to the children.

We looked at the goats but Little Steven really liked the lambs. Maybe they remind him of dogs? However when they took two of the lambs out, one was left in the pen and it didn't really like that, so the lamb kept baaing very loudly and this did freak Little Steven out. Oh to have the bravery of a one year old.