Partying With Farm Animals

Saturday  morning we headed to the Oak Mountain Petting Zoo for Ellie's 3rd birthday party. 

This is William (Ellie's brother) and his dad Eric. They are sweet friends of ours. Eric and Matt became friends several years ago when we moved to Birmingham and they both started teaching at Hoover.

We have actually never taken F to the petting zoo (deprived, I know) so this was a new experience. He loved the goats and laughed everytime he tried to pet them.

This goat was a little anti-social, but we forced him to be friendly.

I finally caved and let Fulton walk around by himself despite the mounds of goat droppings everywhere. Gag. I think I went through a whole package of wipes trying to thoroughly sanitize him after we went inside. A little obsessive, yes I know. But he had a ball.

Nothing like a good ole family photo shot in front of the horses. Which by the way little buddy was scared of. Matt kept holding him up there trying to get him to pet them... not having any part of it.

After a small bath with germex and wipes we headed inside for lunch and cake. This is sweet Ellie with her 3rd birthday cupcake. Hooray!!

A quick Happy Birthday Cheese for the camera.

They were trying to get a picture of the kiddos all lined up with the birthday girl. Fulton did surprisingly well standing still for the picture.

He did so well that when the picture was over he just kept standing there. I don't think he knew what to do so he was waiting for direction. After lunch we went for a quick hay ride. It was a fun morning celebrating a birthday and visiting the animals.