Lazy 5 Mile Ranch

I have left you out of at least a month of adventures in North Carolina. How could I do that? Excuses are easy to come by, but let's get you caught up!

So basically in the month of January....

We've been keeping busy by being outside, going to all kinds of story times and city events, going to a place called the Lazy 5 Mile Ranch, and making new friends. I am going to be so sad the day that we have to leave. We're starting to get attach to the people here, and this is going to be another hard move for the books. 

Our favorite Museum in Raliegh

Carter playing trains at our favorite children's museum in Raliegh

My silly little boy making pizza with googles on his head

The museum even has a hockey rink to play in! It's AWESOME!

La Bauer park and Carter doing what he does best, making friends

Story Time at the Greensboro coliseum. He got to play basketball

and watch the teams practice before their big game.

Woke up to this little guy out side our apartment.

The Lazy 5 Mile Ranch

We have had a huge bucket list for our time on the east coast, but we haven't been the best at crossing them off. When you’re asked to speak in church, your husband gets a new calling, and your little sister gets married, suddenly those endless weekends become very sparse. So we take advantage when we can get something checked off. 

I had a friend tell me about a ranch you drive through and feed all kinds of different animals including zebras. From the awesome picture she showed me, and her description of the experience her little family had, we just had to check it out. Boy was it an interesting experience. We bought a bucket of feed and started on our adventure. We saw ostriches, llamas, yaks, deer, sheep, rams, zebras, pigs, giraffes, camels, and all kinds if different random animals. We got about 10 minutes into the drive before a yak decided to take our entire bucket of food. We still had a long ways to go, and our food was already gone. We were bummed that we couldn't feed the animals anymore, but I'm pretty sure Carter and Jason were entertained with my reaction to the ostriches and emus coming up to the window. I don't think they've laughed that hard in a while. It was a pretty fun trip. Best of all, it just took one Saturday afternoon.

Carter loved all the animals, but I think he really like the zebra the best. Some times I wonder if this crazy little boy if mine will have any memories of our Carolina adventures. I sure hope he does. I hope he remembers how much fun we had, how much we loved him to pieces, and that we are best buds. I hope he remembers the wonderful people we've met while being out here, and I hope we can always look back at this time with smiles on our faces. Someday I hope we come back.

The giant yak who stole our food bucket!

Just pretending to feed animals.

A ZEBRA!

The zebras were Carter's favorite!