Canon shares a birthday with our good friends the Wheeler's daughter.
Say that five times fast. Or try to understand it.
Well, since they share a birthday, for the last two years we have done something together.
Never mind the fact that their daughter is 11 and Canon is 4. They don't seem to mind.
Last year we went bowling. This year...although Canon was insistent on bowling at first...we went to April's sister's husband's parent's farm.
See what I did there? Confused, huh?!
It was in Fillmore.
I could make a slightly inappropriate joke about Fillmore...I will refrain.
April's sister's husband is named Jordan. I will now refer to the farm as Jordan's. Capeesh?
Jordan's parents evidently own this farm and do something called Apple fest every year. We didn't go to apple fest but, it is a big deal in Fillmore.
Hence the big wagon that all our kids were climbing all over like little monkeys.
No big farm is complete with out a zip line.
Laney was the first one from our family to say she wanted to go.
First, you have to climb the tower. The little kids are in harnesses and are roped into someone at the top.
That someone just happened to be Bryan.
Blake went with Laney to take pictures.
But..when Laney got to the top...let's just say she wasn't so confident...
So Blake strapped on a harness to go down with her.
Meanwhile we waited...
looking like a Gap Jean ad.
Penny was happy to wait...
"That's better."
I wish I had a picture of them coming down.
I don't.
Picture this...
Laney white as a ghost...shaking...looking like she was either going to vomit or pass out....Blake smiling.
I asked Laney if she liked it when she was done and she started to bawl.
How I talked Gavin into going...I am not quite sure.
Granted, when we got to the top he had a minor meltdown.
Not that I blame him. When you are up there, it feels very high.
Then I simply lied, and told him the only way down was on the zip line.
Solid parenting skills.
But he did it. Or should I say...we did it.
Me? Smiling. Him? Looking like he is trying to smile.
Now I bring you a public service announcement:
Harnesses are NOT flattering.
Consider yourself warned.
You're welcome.
Blake decided to try the zip line on his own. He did some fancy stunts. And by fancy I mean the spread eagle
and the cannon ball.
In a shocking turn of events Laney said that she wanted to go on the zip line again.
I think it was due to the fact that Blake looked like he was having such a good time.
Not only did she say she wanted to go again but she also said she wanted to go by herself.
I told her I would go with her just in case...
Down she came....
solo.
Some people may mistake this face as a look of pure fright.
Until you add the word "Weeeee" then it makes perfect sense.
You can add the word "weee" to this one too.
We repeatedly heard "my turn" from Penny.
So we took her on a shirtless stationary zip line ride.
At some point during the day we had decided to go all sorts of white trash and removed Penny's and Canon's shirts....
Riddle me this...
You don't eat cotton candy shirtless?
If you haven't you aint living.
Or at least you aren't living in Fillmore.
Fillmore...the land of all things farm related.
Like tractor rides.
Where you can ride a tractor shirtless.
It is accepted.
Dare I say encouraged.
Wanna know what else you can do shirtless?
Sit on gigantic tires drinking generic Gatorade.
Ride horses....while crying...
The sky's the limit.
While our other kids weren't getting their country on by being shirtless, they did embrace the country life.
Laney loved it.
All the kids did.
They probably liked the zip line...or the cotton candy...or tandem horse riding...or the swings...the most.
Or maybe it was being shirtless.
You know what they say...When in Rome..er..Fillmore.
