Right before Emmie’s surgery, we attended our local home school organizations Farm Day.  A wonderful family opened up their dairy farm to the whole organization for the day. Honestly, I didn’t want to go.  I had so much to do at home.  But, there was that nagging feeling that I knew if we didn’t go we would miss out on some great, fun family quality time.  So, Mark took the day off and all ten of us headed to the farm.

We had such a wonderful time learning about a working farm, petting animals, playing in corn, and visiting with friends.  It was just what we needed the day before we had to leave for Emmie’s surgery.  I definitely don’t regret going!

Please note that I left out the random picture of cow…um, stuff and yes, my children took their shoes off to run across the hay bales.  That’s how we roll on my side of the family.