Hurry up with Supper

When Mommy and Daddy can't get supper finished quick enough and a little girl is allowed to play in the cabinets with pots and pans you get.....a little girl sitting in the biggest pan in the house eating her snacks which she found in a basket on top of the white cabinet to her right. This is really not staged....this is how we found her one evening while we were fixin' dinner.

Trip to Indiana

We went on an family excursion! We decided to make a trip to the Family Farm in Southern Indiana. Tim's parents live on this farm for about 6 months out of the year. His Grandmother grew up there. I was so excited to go and see about "the farm" that I had heard about for so many years. It was dark when we got there, so I really couldn't appreciate the scenery until the next morning. Oh my goodness......I have NEVER seen so much corn and soybeans in my life!!! Right now, there is corn all around the house - literally on all 4 sides! It is beautiful! You know how you see on TV big fields of crops just swaying in the breeze, that is what this was like. It truly was amazing to me! It was so peaceful - I seriously thought I was in a different country. I am amazed by each travel I have how beautiful America really is!!

Our adventures on Saturday included going to the meat locker to get the best marinated turkey ever. Have you ever heard of that - marinated turkey? I can't explain how good it was. Ava Grace, Meme, and I also went to an Amish Quilt Auction. There are many Amish farms located in southern Indiana. It was so neat to see the Amish people riding in horse drawn buggies to the auction and to and from other houses. The children were dressed in the Amish attire as were the adults. Of course, the food they grow and prepare is incredible!! We had a nice lunch of meat and veggies!! That evening we also went to an Amish restaurant where we continued to feast!! lets just say that we ate very well and Ava Grace loved it!!

On Sunday after church we drove to Indianapolis to see Aunt Ava. This is one of the special ladies that Ava Grace is named after. Aunt Ava is Tim's great aunt (His grandmother's only surviving sister). We had a nice lunch with her and Ava Grace enjoyed riding around meeting everyone at the home. I think Aunt Ava was really excited that we came. It was wonderful to finally meet her!!

Before our trip home, we went over to the fairgrounds (across the HUGE corn field from the house) to see them set up for the big antique festival that was occurring the next weekend. It was so neat!! They were making Apple Butter while we were there and old tractors were coming in for display during the festival. Ava Grace enjoyed her freedom in the one-room school house that Pop Pop has worked on. This is the actual school where Grandma and her sisters attended and her father taught. It truly looked like "Little House on the Prairie" - so neat!! There was a miniature horse farm down the road too in which Ava Grace was mesmerized by them moving about.

It was an incredible trip although too quick. We are looking forward to Meme and Pop Pop coming back home soon, but I'm glad we were finally able to go and have some memories of a place that is very dear to the family.