Black Island Farms

My friend Kristin invited me to join her ward's "Mommy Group" and they had set up a field trip to Black Island Farms. It was one of those days when I woke up and I kept debating wether or not to go...can I do something like that with 3 kids by myself?...do I have the energy?...but the deciding factor was that it was a beautiful day, one that shouldn't be wasted indoors! We arrived at the farm in Syracuse at 1:00 and instantly I was so glad that we had come. First of all it's normally $10/kid and $15/adult but since we had such a large group they let us come before the normal hours of operation so we pretty much had the place to ourselves and we only had to pay $4/kid and adults were free! Go if you can...they might close next year if they don't make enough money! Thanks Kristin for the invite...we had a blast!

Going on a tractor ride...we saw how corn, pumpkins, squash, zuccini, onions and carrots grow!

Fresh carrots!

Pick a pumpkin!

Teeny weeny pumpkins!

Our little clan

Baby cows...just a few of the animals they have in their petting zoo

Riding in the "pig" on the animal train that pulled the kids on a fun little course through the corn!

"Corn Box" I was feeding Cohen while I watched the girls play and they had gone over to this boxed in area and I thought they were playing in sand...when I got over there and realized it was CORN...how fun!

Corn Angels!


Slides! My girls could have kept going on the slides all day...I was so proud of them that they climbed up the huge haystacks by themselves and then had no fear going down the slides time and time again...the one black tunnel slide was funny because it vibrated their little bodies so they came out giggling each time...Elsie after a few times was going up to other kids saying..."try this one...it's CRAZY"



Cohen won the best baby award...he was his happy mellow self all day as we watched the girls play!

Feeding the goats with this fun little contraption where the kids put food in a bowl and pulled to ropes until the bowl reached the goat at the top!

Lamas

Cute little donkeys

Dirty little piggys

Photo shoot by Adelyn...she's been very into taking her own pictures lately with my camera...today she said "i'm going to be a patogger like Aunt Jen"


Pumpkin bounce house

Girls walking hand in hand as they walked back to do another round of slides

I just laughed as i watched Adelyn do lap after lap...coming down and running as fast as she could to do it again

The GIANT slide...we were there so long and just as we were about to leave, they opened up this huge slide...so of course we had to stay longer so my very surprisingly daredevil children could have a go!


I went down with Elsie the first time and I have to admit...I was a little nervous...it was high up and we got booking it down the slide as I was forced into a laying down position and was a little disheveled when I got to the bottom, but I had to laugh...I felt like a kid there for a minute and I wished I could have just kept playing!


What a great day! I had so much joy watching Adelyn and Elsie have so much fun...I loved seeing them try new things and knowing they're nervous but overcoming fears...seeing them be such good little partners all day and watching out for each other...I love having them in situations where I get to see how they interact with others...and for the most part they were quite shy, but also polite and considerate...having them outside and exercising their little bodies...seeing their huge smiles on their faces.
This might sound cheesy, but there was a moment that I was sitting on a haybail watching the kids play and this flock of white doves kept circling around and I had to give thanks to my Heavenly Father...for the beautiful day...for letting me be these kids Mommy...for the love that I have for each of them...and for the peace that I felt! Good day!