Special guests at the farm

We had two very special visitors to our farm this past week!  I went to Peoria on Thursday and stayed until Mother's Day.  I brought Drew and Kayley back to the farm with me for a week.  We had an incredible time with them on the farm!  Mark's brother Milt from Arkansas and Matt also showed up on the farm.  So nice to have them both here to see the kids!  Drew and Kayley picked up sticks, picked up rocks (they really thought this was fun at their young age!), they planted soybeans with Grandpa, played on a wonderful water park thanks to their Uncle Milt and drove the golf cart with Uncle Matt.  It was so much fun!  It was hard to give them back to their dad when we met him in Iowa City a week later!  :-)  I look forward to more fun on the farm with these two in the future.

Mark has all the crops in the field and now we wait for rain.  We do need that.  Our lawn is very dry so that must mean the crops are the same.  He plans to spray the corn this week if the WIND ever stops blowing.  It has been incredibly windy...too windy. I am sick of it!

I have too many videos and too many pictures below so view at your own risk and boredom!  That is what grandmas do when they are retired!

 

The kids help around the farm

Fun on Pirate's Bay

Matt took Kayley for a Nascar drive!

Uncle Matt and Kayley

Kayley had to go far for a big rock

Filling the "rock bucket"

We picked a big load of rock!

Getting ready to go pick up rocks.  Gloves are on!

Don't fall off the side, Kayley!

Drew and Kayley making Grandma's tomato plant grow!

No farm visit is complete without the lawnmower ride!

Climbing to the top of Pirate's Bay

Matt and Kayley ready for a spin on the golf cart

Drew and Kayley when first arriving at the farm

Grandma playing tag with Drew

Kayley and Pumpkin

Kayley with Uncle Milt's dog, Pumpkin

Fun on the old JD tractor

Kayley getting a tractor ride

Time to help Grandpa plant the soybeans

Time for Drew's race!