How now Brown cow

Back from Hawaii and access to our pictures. I am HOME! It feels so good. Vacation was so wonderful, I definitely felt like I got a good recharge and regained motivation and energy for some good things coming home. Its nice to not be living out of a suitcase and moving every week or so. Its nice to be back in our routine. Whatever that looks like. I often feel like our lives need more structure and have learned that our life as the Moon family is very unique, far from normal and yet we still have things that go on routinely. Not typically on the same day each week but nonetheless happen.

Anyhow back to the update. I thought I would do a highlights of previous months but I dont know if I will be able to just brush over everything so quickly so I may just be posting as normal things from the last couple of months and try to catch up without too much fuss.

Back in December we had the chance to go with a couple from our church out to their cow farm and feed their cows bread from another church member's bakery (the leftovers they cant sell) and it was so much fun.

Here we are unloading the bread, opening the bags full of bread and making sure all the wrappers are off

 Ej starting to take the bread to leave it in piles for the cows once they come in the fence

 Ralph bringing in the cows so they can feed and pointing out different things about his cows. Those cows have a piece of his heart for sure. He has named each one and tagged them and is having a hard time with the fact that he needs to get rid of some because they have multiplied beyond his capacity. There was even a cow with the same name as Ej which was so cool!

 After we fed them we took a break and had some morning tea (snack) and enjoyed the views. The boys took a tour of the property while I stayed behind with Lorraine and gleaned knowledge from her wise and experienced life as a mother of a large family.

 Ralph taught Ej how to play a game that now I cant remember the name of (that's what I get for not blogging it right away) that is similar to horse shoes/ring toss. But this was made out of rope hoops and a wood pole

 Ralph showing off his skills with a whip and teaching the Mister about it all

 Mr. Moon having a go with it. Him.....not so successfull- he actually had the whip backlash and hit his cheek one time...ouch! But he had fun practicing and one time got the satisfaction of the perfect whip sound.

 Ej's cow

It was such a blast, and something that we will definitely do again!