The boys' Nursery leader has a large farm and a young daughter rides horses in competitions. Saia loves going to see their horses.
Priceless shot of just one of Lani's many "faces." Saia and Lani both love going to see the chickens at great grandpa Wilson's place.
I guess in our day and age this is what we do rather than send telegrams or hand-written letters via the pony express. Boy am I grateful to be alive now rather than back then.
Our boys are pretty much our life. We brought them to Cedar Key for the opportunity it would provide our family being away from the "big city," if Charlotte can be called a big city. Well once you've been to Cedar Key it doesn't take much more than a stoplight to consider any place a big city. Here we enjoy stars that otherwise don't exist, sunrises and sunsets that are coveted by travelers from around the world, seafood so fresh it may still have a pulse, and wildlife that enthusiast come from afar to see.
The boys can make animal sounds thanks to our 30-mile rides to the big city(5 stoplights) each week for groceries, Church, and more where along the way we see horses, cows, donkeys, and plenty of ducks, deer and frequently wild hogs. Our ward celebrated the annual "Beast Feast" last week with all sorts of southern delicacies the young men helped round-up. By delicacies I mean oysters, of the rocky mountain variety, squirrels, armadillo, goat, quail and even one such wild hog. I know you are all sorry you missed out.
The boys are doing fantastic here and love all the time they get to spend with their MeMe and PaPa. They typically have red-stained faces most of the week denoting they have recently been to Papa's organic strawberry patch. Keilani is a professional jam maker as he smashes more berries on his clothes than find their way to his mouth. And Siosaia loves to hold the bucket for me while I pick for orders we get, only the bucket never seems to fill-up no matter how quickly I pick?!
Did I mention we have 30+ chickens next to the strawberry patch? The boys have helped raise them from just a few days old when they arrived in the mail! The post office quickly informed us, with loud chirping in the background that our package had arrived! Saia didn't want to wait for Easter to dye eggs, so instead he found the chicks medicine(gentian violet) and dyed a few chicks as well as about half of his body a nice dark purple. This is much more ammusing to write about now then it was the day I found him in the middle of the purple mess he was making. Proving once again that being a good story-teller is all about timing!
Well I guess i will find out later if these can be added to or continuedas I have to stop for now. Check back for updates and more events from the Wilson's of Cedar Key.
