Frying Pan Farm

The 3 youngest kids and I went to Frying Pan Farm on Tuesday with some friends. I must say I think Frying Pan Farm may be the strangest name I've ever heard for a farm, especially considering I didn't even see a single frying pan. Oh well! I was excited to see a farm out here, and the fact that it had baby animals made it even better. It ended up being one of those living historical farms and though it was cool I'd still have to say Jensen Historical Farm in Logan is cooler, especially during Baby Animal Days.

We started out by trying the farm equipment. It was kid sized which was way cool for the kids. Ben liked the tractors and Hannah just wanted to sit in the stroller (she was having one of those days.) She did, however, like looking at the big tractors. I think that was her favorite part of the entire farm.

After riding the tractors we headed over to see the animals. This is were I felt the farm lacked. They didn't have many animals, but the kids like it anyway and they thought it was cool to see what few animals they saw (except the pigs, they stunk!)

Next we went to the farm house. It was only opened from 10:00 until 12:00 so we had to take a break in the middle of seeing the animals to make it to the house. Oddly enough when we got inside the house we discovered 2 sister missionaries. Apparently the farm house is only open 2 hours a day because the sister missionaries volunteer time there. We were pleasantly surprised and were very happy they volunteered time there so we could see it.

Fighting with Lincoln Logs in the farmhouse.

Playing dress-up, with friend Audrey Hobbs, in the farmhouse.

Next we went to see more animals. We got to see ducks, bunnies, more goats, and chickens. For some reason Hannah was scared to death of everything except the chickens.

She loved the chickens and even got out of the stroller to stand next to them. This was the beginning of a happier Hannah.

Next we went to see the big pig. He was huge and so was his smell. Ben found some rye plants nearby that he thought were so cool and he just had to go tromping through them. Of course if one kid goes through the weeds they all have to. Soon we had 10 little kids tromping through rye plants. It was much better than smelling that stinky pig.

Hannah was still out of the stroller and she enjoyed the rye plants up until she stepped into a puddle of mud. This happened to be at the exact time I tried to take a picture of her. It soured her mood for awhile, but she got over it.

The last thing we did before lunch was take the wagon ride. This was something Ben really, really wanted to do, but they were having trouble with the preschool groups that were there. We lucked out on our walk back to have lunch when we heard the wagon driver announced that they would be doing their only none preschool wagon ride in 5 minutes. Ben was so excited. He loved the ride and talked none stop. Poor Mr. Steve, the wagon driver, had to answer all Ben's questions and listen to all his comments.

It was a great day at the farm. The kids got to see some animals, visit an old farmhouse where they played Lincoln Logs, and played dress-up, play in rye plants, and go for a wagon ride. Life on the farm is great.

Playing in the grass at lunchtime.