Smiles Worth Capturing

Some smiles are worth capturing ..... Friday, we spent the day "down on the farm" with Jack's class. The kids could not have been more excited about going. Scott went on Erica's field trip earlier in the week on an island with a rather unfriendly German tour guide that picked on him incessantly for his chattering. I picked the lesser of two evils; so I thought. Being on the farm with 100 first graders was needless to say, controlled chaos. I am not one to be a germ freak. "HOWEVER", when dealing with small hands and animal feet and animal bottoms and animal poop, I was a "little" over the edge with hand sanitizer and the thought of Ecoli trampling through my mind! The rode ponies, pet the pigs, cows, horses, and chased chickens and ducks until they captured them and picked them up. And then moms wiped their shirts down because the animals lost all control down the front of them. Neat picture, huh? Luckily, this did not happen to Jack. I was determined that he hold the animal the proper way to avoid things such as this! We had a great time -- the weather could not have been more humid and we got rain in the afternoon as we were leaving. The kids were all so tired, sweaty, sticky and flat out dirty! Jack had to take a bath the minute we got home! Me, too. But the smiles were worth the trip ,....