Hillcrest Orchards

Hillcrest Orchards is one of our favorite fall trips that we started last year and will continue for years to come!!! The usual crew went, Kim, Carly, Arieal (one of Carly's friends) Reed, Will, Maddie, Braxton, and of course me! We had so much fun!!

This year Brax was much more active in the petting zoo as you can see in the pictures!! He loved the goats and the chickens and even the baby calf. Brax was amazed at the baby chicks. I had to be very careful with him and these chicks cause Lord knows I didn't want a sudden death to take place!! Yikes!!!

We went on a wagon ride, walked the orchard, slid down the huge slide, played on the playgrounds, and spent most of our time chasing the animals around. Not to mention we had the excellent snacks at the end of the afternoon, out of this world doughnuts, caramel apples & apple cider, yummm!!!

I really enjoyed watching Brax interact with all the animals. It's cool to see how he wants to feed them and pet them and even pick them up!! What a kid!! At one point Brax said "look Mommy, the goat is eating your shoe" and what do you know, the goat had my shoestring in his mouth and talking about nasty. The shoestring was gross when I finally got it out of the goats mouth!!! All of the kids really enjoyed themselves and were very well behaved which makes for an even better trip!

Last year it was Maddie who chased the chickens around trying to take them home with her, while she still tried this year Brax was more on the hunt this time!! He chased that mama chicken around trying to get it for a long time. This was quite entertaining!!! At first he was a little adamant about it but before I knew it the chicken was in tow and that's all she wrote!!!

Maddie was checking out the goat who was just chilling on the porch, it amazes me how tame these animals are.

Here chicky chicky, I am coming for you..... I got you!!!!

Aunt Kim was being mauled by a goat, these goats sure know what food is and boy they will do their best to get every last piece of it without sharing with any of their other goat friends.

Now here is a serious conversation taking place while sitting on the tire seats. Lord only knows what was really going on their heads!!!