All I can say is WOW! I had no idea my kids could have so much fun at a dairy farm! We spent the day at the South Mountain Creamery’s Fall Festival. After a few hours there, KitKat turned to me and said, “I thought that this would be a lot more boring than it is. This is actually cool.” Those of you who have teenagers or soon-to-be teens know what a big statement that is. Notice in the following pictures how many times I caught KitKat smiling (and not running away from the camera, either!)
Cowboy Hay was the first “attraction” to catch our interest. Twizzler has always had a LOVE of GOLD (Funny side story–one day years ago, I found him with a collection of all the yellow things he could find in the house. I asked him what they were, and he replied, “They’re the family jewels!”) Well, Cowboy Hay had REAL GOLD, and he let us hold it.
Here is Twizzler holding more than $2000 worth of gold. It was heavy!
After the gold, the 4 younger kids ran off to other areas of the barn to play with the old farm equipment. There were 2 hand-crank machines (no idea what they’re called) that the kids loved. I was just glad that nobody lost any fingers.
Yes, even KitKat got involved.
Reese put her whole body into grinding the corn!
After Cowboy Hay had given our family our very own history lesson (he was a driver during the 1849 Gold Rush, you know!!) he sat down to play his collection of old-time instruments. Very fun to listen to!
Meanwhile, AJ was climbing on the tractors.
There was a table in the barn with homemade ice cream and little canisters of cream. We made about 10 vials of homemade butter!
Outside, we tasted apple cider slushies and made less-than perfect apples into mush for apple sauce and juice.
And then off to the calf barn. These baby cows were SO precious. Some of them were just days old.
The kids pet them all, even the ones who just wanted to lick them!
Twizzler actually called me and the camera over to take a picture of his “favorite” (remember just yesterday, he was running from me??)
The cream took a LONG time to turn into butter. KitKat was the winner–the first to make solid butter. Even SHE asked me to take a picture of it!!!
We had been there for about 2 hours when I noticed that the kids were looking mighty dirty. Not only did they have a layer of dirt, but Twizzler and Reese had had a run-in with someone else’s cream (coming down the slide, they were covered with the thick, white stuff). Reese’s hair was matted to her forehead! They didn’t care about the dirt as they rode circles around the barn on all of the trikes and wagons and mini farm equipment for kids.
Next was the hay ride. CandyMan and Necco are always good for some silly faces. My good friend, Safire, was also there with us at this point, and she took some pictures with ME in them.
Reese loved having the front seat on the hayride.
Look at this view!!!!
After the hayride, we went over to the creamery store and bought some of their homemade ice cream and sat around watching cows being milked. By this point, the smell didn’t even bother us. :)
Before we headed to the car, I gave CandyMan the camera to get one last picture with me and Safire.
It was the perfect day. I think the kids are going to be begging to go again next year.
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