Owen's Spring Creek Farm Trip

This past Saturday, August 16, we took a morning trip to Owen's Spring Creek Farm with some friends of ours from church.  Makenzie enjoys playing with her friend Kylie and the two spent the morning feeding the goats and sheep, petting the horses, and looking at pot-bellied pigs.  We weren't able to take the hay ride due to rain earlier in the week, but the girls seemed to have a good time regardless.   We look forward to making another trip this October for the annual pumpkin patch.

Trip to Twin City Ranch

On July 11, we set out for our first official trip with both girls.  We headed to pawpaw and granny's ranch near Centerville, TX to see the cows, horses, donkey, and the new chicken farm. The chicken farm is quite a site-pawpaw and granny have six chicken houses with approximately 26,500 chickens in each house.  Makenzie had a great time riding the four-wheelers with mommy, daddy, and pawpaw, and swimming in the river with daddy and Montana.   Our yellow lab, Dakota, managed to keep himself from being chased by a herd of cows this time, but he did get chased by a deer protecting her fawn and Montana was chased by a stallion.  Makenzie talks about the "country" all of the time and she prays for granny, pawpaw and the animals every night.  We look forward to many more trips there.

Feeding Geese

On July 20, 2008, the four us went to feed the ducks at a neighborhood pond.  Lucky for us, a flock of Canadian geese were there.  We had a good time feeding them - although Makenzie was a little afraid once she got on the ground in the middle of all of the geese.  She also wasn't sure if she wanted to eat the bread or feed the geese.

On Wednesday July 1, 2008 Makenzie, Mommy & Daddy drove to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, TX.  We had a wonderful time driving through the park and feeding, petting and viewing all of the animals.  We saw rhinos, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and all sorts of deer and antelope.  Makenzie had a great time and fed some of the animals herself.  Mom was ecstatic, as you can see from the picture, that her favorite animal, the giraffe, stuck his head in the car.  This adventure is highly recommended to other parents of young children.