Homeschool Field trip to Young's Dairy

On Wednesday, October 13th, we went to Young's Dairy with the Dayton Christian Homeschooling group. The kids were anticipating this day, because it has been almost a month since we had been on a field trip.

Nice shot of the kids sitting around the fall decorations provided by the farm.

Jason feeding the goats; he used to be scared, because they would almost "attack" him, but he was brave and let them eat out of his hand.

Rachel LOVES to feed the animals, doesn't matter what kind. She wanted to keep feeding them, but they were allowed to have 2 big handfuls.

Rachel tried to find the most round pumpkin she could find. They were kind of disappointed the pumpkins weren't bigger, but we were getting the last of the bunch.

Jason and his pumpkin - the farm provided a bag so we didn't need to carry it around the rest of the field trip.

Family shot on the trailer ride back

Don't get many chances for photos, but this one touches my heart. She will always be my little girl.

Jason getting to milk a cow; the kids were told that some farmers still milk like this, but that many farms now have machines to milk the cows.

Rachel milking the cow

The kids are standing in front of Humungous Gus; a cross between the record setting pumpkin and Young's biggest pumpkin. The kids guessed the weight; we will wait and see if their gueses were close.

All in all we had a great day, we finished the day with a scoop of their homemade vanilla ice cream. We then had lunch at the cafe' and picked up a few pints of ice cream to take home for a treat later. The only thing missing was Daddy!!