This weekend we had a fun-filled camping trip to Amish Country. We went a few years ago to Amish Country campsites with the Masts and we stayed at the same place this year. I love their free firewood - it's all bits and pieces of Amish furniture and some have really interesting shapes. Sarah found one that looked like a unicorn horn and she went around dolling out unicorn power to everyone. 
On Friday we went to Rolling Ridge Ranch. Here we rode on a rickety wagon with a lively Amish driver who pointed out all the animals to us. We also each got a bucket of feed for the animals. Mine was gone within 10 minutes since one of the animals grabbed it out of my hands! The kids absolutely loved this trip. The animals came right up to the wagon and Sarah especially loved to feed them out of her hand. Sarah has always had a love of animals though. The kids even got to drive the wagon! See the picture of Jenna steering the horses. 
We also went to Lehman's and Heini's and Amanda came too! We spent a lot of money at both places and stuffed ourselves with cheese. Erik bought 7 different kinds of cheese. We have a lot of cheese-eating in our future. 
We love the atmosphere of Amish country too. There are so many buggies, beards, and baked goods. You just can't go wrong.
On this camping trip we also celebrated Matthew's first birthday. I made a caterpillar cake out of cupcakes for all the kids. There are 6 kids between us and the Masts so we needed a lot of cupcakes. Luckily I had just enough with 1 to spare. On Saturday we went to my parents house to celebrate Matthew's birthday with them. I made a "1" cake for him to eat. He dug right in! I remember when Jenna turned 1 she was so tentative and didn't want to make a mess. Matthew had no such qualms. I had to give him a bath afterwards. Yuck!
Of course we got to sit by the campfire and make smores. Yum! Jen brought coconut marshmallows. Roasting coconut marshmallows and putting dark chocolate and graham crackers on them was divine!
The only downside of our trip was that I forgot my prayer journal. Too bad because I need it.
66 points on Quiddler and I made the word "nth"!
1 comment:
What an awesome trip! We just went to Lehman's last week for the first time. FUN! We also drove around because Rick spent some time in his growing up years around there. He remembers having amish kids in his class with him. :) What a fun trip for you and the Masts. It's so great that you have a friendship like that in your life. That's such a rare treasure!
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