Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Christmas at the Farm 2008

The Saturday after Christmas we all packed up and headed to my parent's farm. It's so beautiful out there and sooo relaxing. My Aunt Carol and Uncle Abel, Cousin Alicia and her hubby Jason (JV) and little angel Kayla came as well. We all had a blast!

Alicia pushing the girl's in the swings
Aunt Carol joined in the action!
Before going on a family walk Bammy surprised the kiddos with Chocolate Covered Pretzels with Rainbow Sprinkles! What more do ya need?!
Sweet Kayla and Daddy JV
As we were walking we came upon a pile of leaves and these kids went nuts. Had a BALL in them, yelling, screaming, laughing, burying each other... so sweet!
For real...this is one of my FAVORITE Ava pics in a very, very long time. Look how peaceful and content she looks. Hmmm love it.
Oh Happy Day! Carter-man is in heaven!
Kayla can't stand it! It's leaves people! Leaves. Who knew that's all we needed to be happy?! I don't know about you, but I'm goin' to rack a pile in my yard tomorrow and jump on in! If this is the result that should be a daily activity for all!
When we finally gathered the little one's from the leaf fun, we continued our walk to the back of the farm and to the "small pond" (they're all named: small pond, catfish pond, big pond/one by the house, windmill pond...)
So, the small pond is a puddle right now. With such little rain ALL the ponds are seriously the lowest I can remember
Ok, so Papa Rossi's walk was getting a little long for some of us so Lili grabbed one of the golf carts and we piled in to go see the miniature donkey's
Kayla, Alicia and A
Coley is in heaven with the donkey's (Selena, Margarita, Cha-Chi and Autumn-white one not shown)
Love this pic! Ava and "King" one of my dad's horses
"Buddy" and Miss A
Cole
Ready to roll again...
Ava & Uncle Abel
Love the wagon pics! I think this was my dad's when he was little! Not for certain (need to ask) either way, VERY old and the little one's love it
Pooped cousins watching Little Einsteins
Next we headed to Aunt Gina's to celebrate Christmas with her...I PROMISE she was there but I don't know why we don't have any good pics! I need to ask Lili if she has some...*stay tuned This was in her beautiful backyard

2 comments:

The Leonard Four said...

WOW...that farm is seriously awesome! totally fun! i love all those leaf pics - especially your new fave! it's my new fave too! btw...is it possible that ava is looking older? she is so stinkin' cute!

the rodriguez crew said...

ok. those pictures with the kids in the leaves are TO DIE FOR! I want to throw jagger out in our backyard just for this precious photo-op!! christmas looked relaxing and peaceful - what more could you ask for... and spent with your wonderful family.

sidenote, WHEN AM I COMING TO THAT FARM!! :)