On Monday we took this Jost Show on the road to Kansas City! We swam, watched a movie, and got ready for the next day.
She couldn't have woken up happier.
We settled into presents early Tuesday morning and set off with Bruce's parents for a day at the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead.
Have you been there?
It's amazing!
And Monday-Thursday it's free admission with only $2 a person on the weekends.
Ella has always enjoyed the times that she has been able to ride a horse, and I had heard that this farm had ponies to ride. (We bought a $10 package of tickets that included one of each of the following: pony ride, mining rocks, feeding the goats a bottle of milk, a hayrack ride, and fishing!)
On this day, Ella didn't want to ride the ponies.
I'll admit, I was a little sad about that, but Talia stepped up and rode twice. :)
No big deal. It was Ella's day and she wanted to do everything else!
We gave the baby goats a little bottle of milk.
We fished with real worms and Talia and Bruce caught a big one. ;)
We spent time in the barn, the school house and also mined special rocks.Which I just realized is why my purse is currently so heavy, the rocks are still in there!!!
We got to know some of the animals a bit better, then took a hayrack ride to relax.
It was a hot windy day.
Ella's birthday is always hot.
We're used to that.
Good thing our lunch stop was near by.
Red Robin french fries with campfire sauce...oh yum.
And then back to the hotel for more presents and cake.
She chose the chocolate chocolate cake from a local grocery store. Rainbow squiggly's and all.
You can see by the look on her face that she thought the day was fantastic.
Which is exactly what we wanted for her because we think she's pretty fantastic.
All nine years of her.