Stone Barns Trip

The first of August we finally made it out to Stone Barns Farm. This place was on my to do list since we moved. It is only 25 miles north of the city but feels like a much more. It was a fantastic morning trip.

We only spent a little time exploring this place as it was scorching hot and the two little ones can only take so much. But the time spent was quality time. We all felt relaxed and enjoyed exploring.

I love exposing my kids to the country and life outside of the city. You can look at chickens in books but how amazing for a toddler to see chickens in real life. It is the little things. And there was plenty of space to run which our little runner loved.

I really wanted to get a nice picture of me with my two kids. Jaime couldn't wait for such nonsense when there was exploring to do. I also had envisioned sitting my kids together in the grass for a nice photo, they had coordinating outfits and everything but it never happened. As a side note, Ellie's shirt was totally hidden by the carrier the whole time but it was very cute with tiny green polka dots, button front, and ruffles at the sleeves.

The flowers were amazing and made me happy.

The chickens were quite the site. And I have an embarrassing number of photos of these chickens. But it was just so neat. Jaime watched those chickens forever. He kept putting his hand in, like when you offer your hand to a dog until he got pecked... that was what he remembers from this adventure and will tell you all about it.

We were going to walk over to the cows but it was quite the hike and we couldn't get Jaime past this tractor once he spotted it. He also tried to turn it on....

We went back to their nice little patio to have snacks before heading back to the city. It was just a quick outting but it was very restorative. I hope we get to make it back there and check out more.