Oil Ranch

We had such a fun outing to the Oil Ranch (farm/pumpkin patch) last weekend!  It was a great activity. I was totally shocked at the price and the fact that we now have to pay for all 6 of us to go places. It was 15/person so $95 for our entire family to go. Upon finding that out I probably would have turned around and gone home if it weren't for the fact we were meeting Dr. Jea and his family there!  But, it was a great farm and we were very happy with our choice of pumpkin patches so we decided to not begrudge the $ spent and enjoy our time together. It reminded us of our Ohio days where we could go to these fun seasonal festivities. 

The kids all enjoyed riding the horses. Lex is such a darling little person and always squealing with delight! Pure joy, enthusiasm and happiness!

Jo wanted to try the little horse and had a great ride. She wasn't scared.

 So on her next turn she decided to try the big brown horse! Amazing!

 Calvin was very reluctant to try this at first, as he is reluctant to try anything new, but after the girls did a few rounds and then we did other things he came back later in the day to have a turn. There are lots of opportunities for therapeutic riding here in TX and home in SD and I have wondered if it would be good for him. Probably not in the heat but perhaps....

There was a petting zoo. The goats were very active and running around like crazy. Lexey thought it was hysterical!

A big haystack to play on

Lexey and Calvin learned how to milk a cow! (Clare wouldn't come near it) and Jo enjoyed just feeding the cow!

 The girls and I went on a train ride while Calvin rested/ cooled off.

While we were in line for the hay ride jo bumped her face on the post and hurt her lip really badly. She got a bloody nose and her lip also bled a ton. We got out of line for ice, snow cones and a rest. We never made it back to the hay ride!

Then the kids played on this fun swing thing.

 Jo watched for a while before she was sure if she wanted to get on.

 At the end of the day we picked pumpkins

Group shot with our kids and the Jea's

 family photo! (some kids look hot...it was 90 degrees outside!)

 The cute Jea family.