J and Grandma's Excellent Adventure

We ended this evening with a fun cousins playtime in Aunt Marilee's backyard playground. J loved having so many kids to play with. Here he is about to jump on top of Del, while Katelyn and Melanie try to regain their balance and Braddock tries to shoot Jackson.

Before that Del and Jackson had a lot of fun swinging on all the cool swings.

Earlier Uncle Jim helped Jackson do a little bareback horse riding. J loved it!

Here he is trying to pick which horse he wants to ride.

All the kids went to feed the hungry cows. Here are Melanie and J doing their part.

What a fine farmer Jackson would be. Gathering feed for his herd.

To go on this excellent adventure we all piled onto the back of a big flatbed truck and Jim hauled all the kids all over the farm. (Parents got to ride along if they held on tight so they didn't fall off.) Here are Bethany with Emma and Braddock, Del and dad Adrian, and Jackson.

Here is the gorgeous coffin (can you use the word gorgeous to describe something someone built to be buried in?) that Ralph just finished building. We offered to let J get in it to try it out but he ran out of the shop as fast as he could when we suggested it to him.

Here are Grandma and J with the big bowl of strawberries they picked.

Jackson became quite the expert at knowing the exact degree of ripeness a strawberry should be before being picked.

Here he is selecting the perfect berries.

Jackson explaining to Grandma his picking technique.

We began this trip, which is only half over, taking Brody home to Alicyn and Mike. This is essentially what Brody did for most of the trip.

This is how J felt about being in the car for 3 days in a row! But he was really such a trooper and a fun traveling companion. Yay! We are off to California!