While visiting with Ge & Granddaddy, we also attended a reunion of my grandmother and granddad’s families (on my dad’s side…got it??? Just know we’re all cousins).  I got to see a lot of family that I knew growing up but hadn’t seen in a while.  I have two great aunts and one great uncle who is still alive.  My great aunts are awesome!  For my wedding, they showed up in matching dresses.  And they’re not twins.  They, mostly my Great Aunt A, have an awesome sense of humor and I love to hear Great Aunt A laughing.  I visited her home once when I was younger and I just remember everyone there being so happy and laughing (maybe that’s not how it always was but that’s what I remember).  My great Aunt A is in the middle in the green.

Oh, she also took my dad with her when she was dating!  And my dad will be quick to tell anyone that she also bought him his first Easter outfit.

It’s not late, so I should be a little coherent.

These were taken at the dairy farm we visited in October. They had a huge hay bale and a bunch of hay on the ground for soft landings.

It looks like he’s taking off…but he’s actually about to land!  Right after this was when realized that mid air spirals never had soft landings despite what was underneath.

*Not quite sure why the pictures are so small…may have to swap to an online site to get the pictures in and out and up.

UPDATE:  Apparently, at eleven o’clock at night, I can’t realize that I’m posting extremely large pictures and no titles…sorry!  The pictures will just have to stay large but I did put a title in.

Posting for me two days in a row! This is a new record 🙂

Waaay back in October. Among our other adventures, we headed to a dairy farm that has just started a corn maze. It’s only twenty minutes from our home, which is amazing considering that we live in the middle of a city (a small city but still not full of cow farms!). We all had a great time. Not only did they have a maze but they had other activities too. Like…

Yep, we had fun at the dairy and can’t wait to go back next year!  The goal is for them to create their own creamery to process and sell milk from the farm.  They are also renovating the dairy so that it can be toured.  It’ll be fun to see what all they do next year!

So, after returning from our friends’ home in Kentucky we ventured on another trip…this time back in time. A local living history park puts on an event twice a year called Colonial Days. It’s an amazing event! They had all sorts of entertainment and merchants set up like it was during the colonial time period. Storytellers and dancing and entertainers were all around. This was our first time to attend and we are set for this to be a family tradition from here on out. Everyone has requested period costumes as well.

The Indians going to help with a “skirmish.”  We’re not quite sure what all involved but we know it had something to do with those “rebel” patriots and some Hessian mercenaries (I sure hope I spelled that right).

This guy was amazing.  He was a lace merchant.  Not a lace maker…that’s what those peasants are for.  He imitated a french lace merchant who had fleed France because of the revolution over there.  He would talk and work on the lace.  It was amazing to see how lace was made.  Although, he said it was not very time consuming, it sure looked like it.  He’s known as the annoying Frenchman and he played it to a ‘t!’

I’m not sure if these are regulars there but there were turkeys and chickens all around.  And they were pet turkeys and chickens.  The kids were able to go right up to them and pet them.  *Note Ace’s notebook…yep, we’re homeschoolers!

Ceili Rain was amazed at the tame turkey (I’m guessing he thought if he behaved he wouldn’t end up on a plate this year!).

And yes, we are still stuck in October.  I’m almost through with the month though.  If Bryant keeps on napping as he did this past Friday, well, I’ll be caught up by the end of the week!