Cedar Hill Farm

This past Sunday we packed our bags and headed down to the farm. Cedar Hill Farm is an AWESOME place to take your little ones. It is a bit of a drive, but well worth it. It took us a little over an hour to get there. It was so perfect that we picked this day to go, because my Aunt and Uncle surprised us with a short visit when they were passing through on their way home from Florida. So they joined us for the day, along with my parents, my brother Joe, and his girlfriend Christine. It was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed all the farm had to offer.

We started out in the hay maze, I think the adults enjoyed that more than Kaylee, simple minds are easily amused. While Kaylee got bored with that my mom and I took her to the swings for a few minutes, the playground was not quite age appropriate for her but I decided to let her try the big girl swings. She sat while I pushed her very slow, she held on good until she was "all done." Then she decided to tell me she was all done. The problem with that is she SIGNS all done, she doesn't SAY all done. The sign requires her to use both her hands so she let go with both her hands. Backwards she went, falling off her swing heading straight for the top of her head, and somehow at the very last second she reached up with both her hands and grabbed the chain. Her bottom dangled just above the ground, and she had the "HELP ME" look on her face. I decided that was enough swinging for the day. I mean we were only in the gate 10 minutes before we nearly had to be rushed out for another visit to the ER. We headed back to get the rest of the group, who was still making their way through the hay maze.

Our next stop was the petting zoo, chicken show, and education station. We got to see ducks, peacocks, turkeys, bunnies, goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, mice, and bees (we didn't pet them of course). Kaylee just loves all the animals, here is a picture of her petting the cow. Take a look at her mouth, she was telling the cow "Moo" the whole time she was petting him. Then it was on to the train ride.

We decided it was time to eat, so we hit the Country Kitchen. We enjoyed some yummy food, before we had the hit the ground running again. After lunch Kaylee rode the pony, for the first time. She loved every minute of it, and was so upset when her turn was over. We told her that we would come back later to ride again, because the line was just too long. After that it was time to head to the corn maze and pumpkin patch. We got on the next hay ride that took us straight to them. First we navigated our way through the maze, then walked over to the pumpkin patch. It was picked pretty dry and there were no good pumpkins, so we decided to get our pumpkin from the produce stand. We took the short hay ride back to the produce stand where we picked our pumpkin. By this time, Kaylee had just about had enough, and we remembered that she had to ride the pony one last time. When we got to the ponies she and another girl were the only riders, so they let them ride for an EXTRA long time. This made her so happy! We ended the day saying good-bye to everyone and headed home (everyone else was headed to Tunica, too bad it was way past Kaylee's bedtime!). We had a FANTASTIC time and vowed that a trip to Cedar Hill Farm will be on our list of annual family trips for the years to come!

Take a look at the slideshow above for more pictures