Hill Ridge Farm

There is a place called Hill Ridge Farm about 30 minutes north of Raleigh that I've always heard people talk about and I've always heard the ads on the radio, and I've always thought "that would be really cool to take the kids", but we've never been.  First, the kids were too little, then our fall weekends were occupied with soccer, and it has just always been easy to put it off "until next year."  Well, this year our friend's youngest son had his birthday party at Hill Ridge Farm, so we (read: I) had a great excuse to go!

Anyway, the kids LOVED it!  It was cold (in the low 40's) and had poured most of the morning, so there were big puddles everywhere, but the sun was shining, so it felt warmer than it actually was outside.  I think the weather deterred a lot of people, so it was mostly just the party goers on what would normally be a busy day on the farm (the Saturday before Halloween).

Brett LOVED the maze and wanted to go again and again and again... yes, I do think we have a future engineer on our hands!

And Kate LOVED feeding the goats... especially she figured out that we could lift her up to look into the tubes to actually see the goats eating the food that she gave them.

Each kid had a huge Ziploc full of animal food!

Beautiful day on the farm!

The giant slide was a big hit with the boys

Kate and some of the other younger kids preferred the corn house... literally a small house, filled with corn kernals

Waiting for our train

That's one rowdy caboose!

Gorgeous view of the farm

Our wagon-covered hayride to the party site

Sweet girls :)

Love these 2 - Matt & Kristen at Three in the Nest

Gorgeous Mama with her (for now) youngest boy!

We had our own pumpkin patch!

Two of the 3 in the nest

Awesome family picture - I'm not biased at all!