Last Days of Summer Break

Squeezing the last bit of fun out of summer during the week before school...

Playing with the water hose on the back porch. It's pretty bad when it's so hot and dry that the kids want to stay on the porch in the shade and away from the crunchy grass to play with the hose.

Floating pecan shell boats in the stream of water.


Somehow the water play turned into making mud pies. This girl is not afraid to get dirty. Unfortunately it made a terrible mess of the porch and a big mud hole where there used to be grass next to the porch. That's going to take some repair work (sounds like a fall project).

Then we took a trip to Fiesta Farms- a little petting zoo right down the road from us. I've always wanted to check it out but had never gotten around to it- better late than never! This baby goat greeted us when we got there.
Piglets!!! They were so stinkin' cute. They had signs: "pot bellied pigs for sale $150." It was hard to resist, but I know Dwaine would NOT have been happy about that and I'm sure I would regret the decision shortly afterward too :-)
Alli feeding the sheep and goats.
More piglets!!! And these were way tinier- only 5 days old. I was way more excited about them than the kids were, but I just couldn't get over how ridiculously cute they were.
2 pony rides were included with admission too! So fun.
This was the biggest horse Alli has ever ridden- there was one bigger and she really wanted to ride it, but she didn't get a chance. We may have to take her for a trail ride on a full sized horse sometime.
More pics of the piglets- they looked way cuter in person and I kept trying to capture it.
Our little goat again. He was 2 or 3 mos old and apparently his mom didn't make enough milk for him so they had been bottle feeding him.

Alli named him but I can't remember what the name was- I'll have to ask her when she gets home from school.

Thanks to Alli- I actually made it into a picture!

Feeding the bunnies!

They had a little playground too with seesaws and a tire swing that the kids enjoyed playing on...

Alli fell in love with this dog....

She was super sweet and would just sit outside the fences of all the different animal pens and watch over them.
Is that not the most adorable thing. She must have sat next to that dog for 10 or 15 minutes straight. They were just loving on each other.
Holding a chicken- I know it looks a little like she smashing it, but she was really being pretty gentle.
TJ with one of the chicks.

The kids had a blast and would have wanted to stay longer but we had to bolt when it started to get unbearably hot. They kept asking when we would get to go back and talking about how big the baby goat would be next time we see it. But I'm thinking with both of them being school, it's not likely we will be back anytime soon- maybe next summer!