Stephens Family Blog: Spring Break!

This past week was Purdue's spring break. Daddy took the week off and Mommy actually took 3 1/2 days off too!!!

We wanted to make the most of our family time!

We started at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis ( http://www.childrensmuseum.org/)

We bought a family membership & plan on making lots more trips here over the next year!!

I love this picture - the true awe & pure joy of watching a choo choo run on a track above his head.

This is the area called playscapes. It's for 5 and younger. Great area for the little ones!!

At this point he was saying "my tuck"

Of course in Indianapolis there's an Indy Race car!

I LOVE this sign! So very true!!

On the way home from the museum. One tired little boy!

Helping daddy in the garage

Well, if we aren't going to go sledding, we can at least have snack in our sled!

Mamaw & Papaw got Joshua this cart. It hooks on to Daddy's bike so we can go for family bike rides!

Thanks Mamaw & Papaw!!

We also spent a day at Fair Oaks Farms (http://www.fofarms.com/en/home)

Joshua on the Moo moo bus listening to the guide tell us what we are about to see.

This is the milking carousel. There are around 2800-2900 cows. They are milked 3 times a day & it take 7 hours to complete 1 full milking. It's a 24 hour operation. They have an hour to break down, sanitise and set back up and start milking again.

Cheese!

This is the sign outside of the birthing barn. The yellow light says "hoofs", Green as you can see below says "head". This tells you what's going on in the barn. They have 20+ calf's born each day on the farm. We got to see 2 born while we were there.

We had grilled cheese sandwich, chocolate milk & ice cream when we were done looking around. All the products were made at the Fair Oaks farms. Yummy!!

It was my honor to get to go to my dear friend's promotion ceremony while on vacation. Chris has been with the Lafayette Police Department for 24 years and just became one of only 3 captions on the force.