Family Fun

With family in town for a birthday celebration, we have enjoyed a flurry of activity over the last few days. There were fireworks on Friday evening (in the driveway), a lot of World Cup futbol to watch on Saturday, a first-time-in-a-new-congregation church service on Sunday morning, a Nationals' baseball game on Sunday afternoon, and a trip to Luray Caverns and Reality Farm today. Whew!

I will post more about the new church business at another time, but I have a few pictures of the Nats' game and our day trip to post now. So here we go...

The Nats' game:

Not sure about the dude behind us wearing a YANKEES jersey to a game in DC
(when the Nats were playing the Cubs). ???

These two had a blast together.

Some little Nats fans

A beautiful day for a game of baseball!

A Harper fan and a Werth fan

Luke and a Phillies fan (who took my advice not to wear a Phillies shirt)

Yeah, Elsa's head mostly got cut off in this one... :-(

Uncle Tim's family

Luke and Cade enjoyed a ride home in the convertible that
Uncle Red was driving.

And today we headed west for a tour of Luray Caverns. Beautiful! The drive itself was lovely, and the beauty inside the caverns was incredible.

After our tour of the caverns, I realized that we were quite close to the farm from which we have raw milk and fresh eggs delivered each week. So we made a phone call and arranged to stop by for a visit. We spent nearly three hours touring Reality Farm with Teri and John. They were fantastic, and we saw cows, chickens, guineas, goats, miniature cows, water buffalo, and deer. The kids had a blast traipsing through the fields after a cow and her newborn calf, being chased by goats, and petting cows. And best of all, Uncle Red even wrestled a new calf out of hiding so the kids could pet her.

Cade was feeding branches of leaves to the goats.

These hiefers were in the same field as
the water buffalo, though the water
buffalo were skittish and ran off.

Told you he wrestled the calf!

The calf was born just yesterday!

Feeding the baby goats. They were so cute!

All this fun...and the birthday being celebrated isn't even until tomorrow. I don't know how much more fun we can handle!