Fair Oaks Dairy

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the skeletons climbed the wall whenever you gave a right answer

Annika trying to milk a cow

Shannon seeing how fast he could get it done His best time was 11.8 seconds

the silage pile


more ingredients for the cows mixture of food


yes that would be manure

It was amazing that the cows knew when to get on and off



the machines you see there are recording which cow is being milked and how much milk she gave


a brand new baby calf

lunch


the cookie she got after eating her sandwich




they are so much cuter when they get along


this is what we were looking at

the maze that Annika cheated in to finally get out of

who rides a tractor sitting down?


Annika climbing the milk jug.

Shae couldn't be out done so the race was on!!

Annika beat her which did not go over very well!



this jumping pillow was well worth the money fair oaks spent on it


just had to play in the water!
Went to a cow farm and came home with a lizard


Sunday we started the day off early and went for breakfast at LePeeps and than we went to Fair Oaks Dairy and a great time. We spent the whole day there and yes, I grew up on a farm so you would think it would have been boring. It was not I got to watch a cow being born for the first time and you will notice I didn't show you any of those graphic photos. My kids saw it as well and I'm sure I will have some explaining to do later. After the birth and the cow was up and walking they separate the mom and the calf It just killed me to know they won't be together again. The mom in me wanted to cry. Shannon said it was scary how fast it all came back to him when he was hooking up the milker on that cow. They have a cheese factory there as well so we sampled some cheese and of course we had to have ice cream as well.Yummy! The kids had a great time and we couldn't have asked for a nicer day. We took our friend Paul with us we have kind of adopted him into our family and I have him to thank for a lot of the pictures you see.