Sophie and Blake: Underwood Family Farms

It sounds crazy but before we started school, I wondered what I'd do with Sophie in school all morning - Blake answered that question. Now, nearly 6 months into the school year (wow), Spring Break arrived and I wondered how we'd fill our time for 2 whole weeks. As it turns out, it has been so busy (thanks to Yuli and Annie ... and kiddos) that I had to schedule some down time. What a serious blessing my shabu shabu besties are!

A few weeks ago, I discovered that two of Sophie's preschool buddies from the Blueberry class at school, had Tuesdays off ... just like us. The two youngest preschool classes are called Avocados and Blueberry. Sophie is an Avocado and Danica and Nicole are Blueberries. Anyways, when we all discovered we had Tuesdays off, along with their mommies (Yuli and Annie), we started to meet weekly in Downtown LA for and early lunch of (yummy) Shabu Shabu. We've met almost every Tuesday for about 2 months now. My hope is that Sophie will make some lifelong friends ... and that I will too!

So on the first Saturday of Spring Break when Annie called asking if we wanted to join her family for a fun outing out at Underwood Family Farms (a farm, about an hour from our house), we jumped at the chance to hang out with some very fun friends!

Danica on a horse ride.
Not surprisingly, Sophie hadn't warmed up yet.
She refused to ride the horse.

Nicole "screaming" down the tractor slide ...
she taught Sophie how to scream!

At first, Sophie wanted nothing to do with this slide ...
but before we knew it, she and Nicole were "screaming" down the slide

MJ (Annie's son, Nicole's little brother) and
Annie's sister-in-law riding the horse train

Andrew and Sophie
Again, not surprisingly, Sophie hadn't warmed up yet.
She didn't go on the ride with her friends ...
instead, she went right afterwards and wouldn't you know it,
they had the entire horse train all to themselves!