Animals.

I think Payton's favorite part of our vacation (other than being spoiled by relatives) was seeing all the different animals. We walked through the barns at the Sanders County Fair and saw goats, sheep, cows, horses and pigs. At first Payton didn't seemed too impressed...I think he was overwhelmed.

Meeting Mr. Goat.


While in Plains, Erik's family camped out in a Connie's back field and Payton and I were lucky enough to snag a nice room in her house with a queen bed, and toilet near by :) (gotta love running water and flush toilets!!) Payton played outside a lot that week and discovered he loved watering flowers (playing with the hose.) Connie's dog Toby wanted in on the action.


Connie has about a dozen chickens running around her back yard. Payton became obsessed with them. All he wanted to do was chase them around and pet them. I didn't let him get that close. I figure the chickens didn't want anything to do with a curious toddler either!


Brian and Charlie (Erik's parents) have 4 acres of grassy fields. As you can imagine, it can be a pain to mow it all. So they let Rancher Bob keep a few cows there to help keep the grass down. We would go out to feed them treats every day. Payton wasn't too sure about those big animals with the giant tongues. They might slurp your face!!