Flat Acres {Day 5}

Yesterday was a day to relax. A much needed, long overdue day to spend together as a family, not roadtripping across America, not packing or shopping or unpacking or assembling furniture, but just having fun together. We spent the morning at Flat Acres farm in Parker, Colorado, meeting some new friends and enjoying a few fall festivities. I really enjoyed just taking some nice pictures and watching the kids have a blast. Fall is here in Colorado but it is a little different than in upstate NY! It was 73 degrees, and so sunny that we all got a little sunburned! That was a first for us. :)


We checked out the little pumpkin patch first, Javi made a beeline for the huge ones and we got some classic pumpkin pictures. My kids are apparently little rebels though :)

We constantly joke that Javi is so timid and terrified. He just won't try out anything new. :) The boy seems to have no fear, especially not of anything regarding people. He checked out every activity, tried every new thing, and took it all in unafraid. I hope that courage is a quality he continues to have throughout his life.



The tractor ride was a hit - our driver was very friendly and talked the entire ride to us about the farm, which would have been nice except for the fact that the PA system made everything come out completely garbled! Peanut loved the tractor ride, and did her best to fall off the wagon several times.

The corn maze, however, was not a hit. I think the kids were just too little and it was a little too overwhelming. We lasted for only the first few turns and then ended up having to find the quickest exit. :(

Javi and I got our faces painted, and throughout the rest of the day I would forget, think something was on my face and try to wipe it off before I remembered it was paint. :)


The petting zoo was also a hit, although Peanut had absolutely no interest in it. We bought her a soft pretzel which she happily munched on while Javi and I visited the animals. The alpacas were awesome - they looked like stuffed animals!




They had a fun water slide for rubber ducks set up for the kids that was Javi's absolute favorite. I think he would have stayed here all day if we had let him. He only liked the yellow ducks though, and at one point had both yellow duckies and would send them zooming down the slides. He was very particular about them facing the right way on their way down the river! What you can't see in these pictures are his happy screams each time they floated down the pipes. :)


Our last activity for the day was the big corn boxes. This was such an awesome idea! No mess, no yucky sand stuck everywhere, tons of fun. Both kids got a huge kick out of them.


All in all, it was a really fun time together. We met up with a friend of friend who lives here in Denver, which was great. It's nice to know at least one person in a town, right? Andrea, her parents and her kids were so nice, and we had a great time chatting in between kid wrangling. We laughed and played with the kids and just relaxed. It was so needed after the last few weeks. After the farm we grabbed lunch and then drove to the mountains. I'll show you those pictures later, but they were just breathtaking. The perfect counterpart to the fun at the farm.