Weekend at the Farm

For labor day weekend, we drove up to Neola, Utah to stay with one of Ty's old mission companions, Anthony Whiting, and his family. Don't know where Neola is? Let's go one town larger... Roosevelt? No? How about Vernal? Neola is about an hour outside of Vernal. It's a tiny town, but really pretty...so much land everywhere!

The Whitings have 3 kids, 2 of which are our kids' ages. The kids all know each other from mission reunions and get along really well. Carter and Taylee were so excited for this trip.

We got to Neola in time to attend church...and everyone was so sweet to us. The primary was sooo well-behaved. I was blown away. There were a lot of kids, but they were so polite and reverent. Whatever is in the water there, we need here.
For dinner, we picked fresh vegetables from their amazing garden.
Then we checked out their land and all their animals

and of course played and hung out

This is Carter's very favorite dog. He wants a dog just like her. Why? She was super pregnant (in fact, she delivered 8 puppies the night we left) and wouldn't jump on him. That's all Carter looks for in a pet....one that will leave him alone.

Making homemade ice cream. The moon and stars were amazing outside

I thought this picture was so cute. Two old mission companions back to work. A guy from their mission in San Diego had moved to Roosevelt, so they got dressed and went to visit him and share a message.

Taking a ride on Anthony's motorcycle.
Visiting the Vernal Temple
Merilynne's family has a dairy farm, so we dropped by. Here's Ty helping milk the cows...I couldn't stay in very long because of the smell, but Ty was a trooper and helped for awhile...and had cow poo on him the drive home to show for it.

Taylee checking out all the milk being stored

and petting all the farm animals...she was in heaven with so many animals

Merilynne gave both kids a drive around the farm

they thought they were pretty neat

It was STINKY! I don't think I could ever adjust to the smell of a dairy farm...at least not with pregnancy sense of smell

While the guys were milking the mama cows, we helped feed the baby cows

and the kids helped shovel some hay...well, I don't really know how helpful it was

We went skeet shootin'....no-Ty, Anthony, and Merilynne went skeet shootin'. I couldn't even hold the gun up...so I watched and took pictures

We discovered Ty has a pretty good shot

Little country gal

Thanks Whitings for a fun weekend!

A week later for Family night, the kids wanted to go back-so we did the next best thing...visited Thanksgiving Point Farms