MacDonald's Ranch

Our friend Katie organized a little outing at MacDonald's Ranch for their Fall festivities.  We are so glad that Friday's are family day and we could go! 

It is still crazy warm here in Phoenix and this day was no exception but we kept moving from activity to activity having fun.  Probably the event the kids stayed the longest at was lassoing (is that a word?).  They weren't so much lassoing as they were pulling the bull like when winning a game of tug-o-war.

The hay maze was also loads of fun for Liam, Jack, Trevor, Tripp and Claire:

There's Claire!

Shooting gallery:

Cow milking:

Water pumping duck races:

Horse racing:

 

Petting zoo!  (Trevor wasn't so sure about that!)

He's a smart boy and found a tractor in the shade!

'Take my picture Mommy'

Between the two boys they hit each of the targets twice!  They have some good arms!

Panning for gold with Liam:

At the end they could turn their gold in for candy!

The Feather clan:

And Ashley, poor Ashley just wasn't herself.  She kept rubbing her tummy and saying she was hungry so she spent some time in the stroller snacking and just not being her happy self :(

And then while waiting for the hay ride to take us to the pumpkin patch Ashley threw up all over Mommy.  Poor girl didn't feel good!!  So Mommy cleaned her up and then rushed her to the car because Sara's friends that were also there agreed that they would watch Trevor and bring him home (how awesome are those friends).  Ashley fell asleep within minutes of leaving MacDonald's Ranch and transferred to her crib where she slept for 3+ hours.  The heat must have gotten to her because she woke up fine and kept down food.

Trevor seemed to do just fine without Mommy and Ashley around as can be seen in all the pictures Katie took for Mommy.  He picked out a nice round medium size pumpkin.

Trevor with some of his besties...Claire and Jack.

And the whole crew!

Little Gracie included this time!  Too bad Ashley was missing but we'll have next year!

We were just glad that she woke up okay and was her normal cheerful self.  We were so confident that she was okay that we kept our plans that evening with our sitter so that we could go out for teppanyaki with our friends Nick and Kaelyn.  They are expecting their baby very soon so it was one last hurrah.  Always a fun time with those two and we weren't out too late!  Home by 10 :-)