Yep, we live on a farm.

The past two days the kids have enjoyed playing in the little creek that runs at the bottom of our property. I only runs when we have a lot of rain, so it is usually dry. The kids were playing in it yesterday, throwing rocks and I really had to watch Emily or she would have nailed Tyler in the head about a dozen times! She never thought to look that it was clear before throwing, I had to remind her every time! Yesterday she had on her rubber boots and kept walking through and Tyler had on his "barn sneakers" and he kept trying to jump over (but landing in it). So today we meant to put on our rubber boot but forgot, so we made a special trip all the way back to the house to change shoe for the creek. I don't know why I bothered! The were pouring water out of their boots when they were done! The water is only about 2 or 3 inches deep and their boots are almost up to their knees! Oh well, they had fun and they found lots of "treasures", a couple random pieces of rubber, an old glass bottle, and a piece of a teapot (according to Tyler, it really looks like a piece of a plate). While the kids were playing I cleaned out the small part of the ring (well, Curt did the hard work on it the other day, I just was keeping it cleaned up) and I also brought the stallion (Rafiki) down for a chance to run around the ring. He's been cooped up in the small paddock behind the barn and needed a chance to stretch his legs. He must have rolled at least 5 or 6 times and had a grand time smelling all the poop! (Stallions love that!) Not to mention all the trotting, running and playing! I'll have to do that more often for him until we can get him out on the grass again.

Here are some pictures since I've been neglecting to add them. Here are the Famous Pillow Pets!! As Pets and ..

As pillows!

And here is one of Emily in her new shoes! Cindy sent them to her in the mail (Tyler got shoes too) and she was soooo exited to get shoes in the mail!!

P.S. She picked out the outfit herself. She is wearing a black cat shirt under her sweat shirt but her first choice for a skirt was white with different color polka dots! But alas it was too big! This worked out better.