Visit from the Sharps - Dewberry Farm

My lovely sister Melissa and her two cute boys came out to visit over the first weekend in October. The first 2 days of the visit involved watching General Conference. I put together a bunch of activities and games to try and make it exciting for the boys. Zach got really good at recognizing the prophet and different apostles.

Although we've added to the number of kids since her last visit, we noticed that we're getting a little bit better at managing the chaos brought on by 4 boys age 4 and under, especially when it comes to braving leaving the house.
We decided to give the boys some fall experience since my boys especially needed it with summer weather lasting around here through December. To do this, we went to Dewberry Farms. As evidence from the massive amount of pictures to follow, (only a small fraction of what was actually taken), Melissa and I apparently thought that we needed to document every possible moment of the day.

All loaded down with kids and ready to go

Taking advantage of the farm animal photo opportunity. That's an excited Caleb posing out front.

We attempted to get the boys to pose by the pumpkin measuring stick but apparently the creepy singing chickens at "The Cackle Palace" were much more exciting.

 

Checking out the baby farm animals. Caleb is obsessed with anything baby.

Next we watched the pig races. Apparently they were so exciting that I didn't get any pictures of the race.

 The cow train had some impressive speed for being a bunch of barrels pulled by a tractor. It was a pretty bumpy ride and with being 4 months pregnant, I wasn't able to last very long on this one.

This train was apparently another photo op. The kids had no intention to stop playing and pose for the camera.

Zach takes his job as biggest cousin seriously. I think sometimes the younger cousins feel a little too much love from his enthusiasm.

We took a wagon ride over to a pumpkin patch.  Zachary was happy to show off his impressive strength by lifting up every pumpkin he could. Thankfully he didn't break any so I didn't have to buy one.

 

Not being big enough to pick up the pumpkins can be pretty upsetting to a little guy's ego.

Zachary showing off his studliness with a gaze off into the distance.

These guys have a blast together.

 

Caleb growls at every opportunity. He has been known to reduce kids to tears by his "scariness".

While it was pretty cheesy, we enjoyed our trip to the farm. Stay tuned for part 2 of our visit from the Sharps.