Adventures of a Modern Farm Family: FV 2012: Chickens, Fish, Dogs and Friends

The next morning once everyone in our family finally woke up we headed inside to help with breakfast. Christina and Hunter have 6 chickens and they let the boys feed the chickens and collect the eggs. Vince loved collecting the eggs and thought it was fun to feed them.

Feeding the chickens

Vince collecting eggs

Chickens

Putting eggs in the basket

Eggs! Christina and Hunter turned them into delicious waffles and scrabbled eggs!

Joel would just play in the yard (it is fenced in!) and run down once in awhile to talk to the chickens. He loved just seeing them and talking to them! Joel’s other love was their Boston terrier, Luna. Luna loved to play fetch and had a green ball she played with. Luna didn’t give that ball up easily and she would let Joel try to wrestle it away from her. At first he would chase her and try to get the ball then he started sitting on the ground by her and slowly moving closer. Then he would pretend he didn’t want the ball and when she least expected it he would grab the ball from her. After a little while Luna would just drop it near him for him to throw. That only happened a few times, but it was very interesting watching Joel interact with Luna! While we were there Joel decided to steal Hunter's hat for an afternoon! He wore it every where and it was his new prized possession. After Joel went to bed the first night we hid it from him. I didn't want a melt down when we had to leave.

Joel and Hunter's hat

Joel, Luna and the green ball

Joel got the ball away from Luna

Luna patiently waiting for Joel to throw the ball

After our delicious breakfast Brad, Hunter and Vince went fishing. While they were fishing we took the 3 littlest kids to the park so Joel could run around and play for awhile. Before long we were ready to leave and we started walking hoping Charlie and Cecilia would fall asleep. They did and so did Joel! We walked for a long ways talking nonstop the entire time except when we were walking up some of the steep hills. Eventually we made it back to their house, but as soon as we stopped the kids started to stir so we went back to walking and talking!

Vince, Brad and if you look closely there is a fish too

Brad, Vince and another fish

Vince liked to go between the fishing pole and the net

The boys had a successful fishing trip and caught some fish on their first cast! I was told that Vince caught the first fish, Hunter caught the most fish and Brad caught the biggest fish. I guess Vince did a great job casting and really enjoyed fishing. He took turns fishing and using the fishing net. Brad used Vince’s fishing pole too and even caught his big fish with it. One of the fish was injured when they were trying to remove the hook and Vince really wanted to take it back to the house so I could fix it. I find that adorable that he has so much confidence in my abilities, but luckily the guys convinced him it would be better for him to be turtle food.

Brad and his fish

Vince looking really cool!

Brad, Vince and another fish

Vince and his fishing gear

There are not very many people that you can go a couple years without seeing, with only a few phone calls, texts, or emails in between and show up on their doorstep and have it be like we saw each other yesterday. That is how it was seeing Christina! I had only met Hunter on his wedding day and Brad had never met Hunter and it was so comfortable for all of us to spend a day or so together. I wish it could have been longer! When the boys went fishing together Christina and I didn’t have to worry about if they were having fun together because we knew they would. It was great having time to visit with such good friends and wonderful people! Now to figure out how to make the drive from Illinois to New Jersey less than 14 hours…