Life...One Day @ a Time...

We were pushed for time on our way home, so we had to leave Indiana on Tuesday morning while the rest of my family spent another day there at my uncle's house and my mom and sisters went shopping in the famous shipshewana stores :( But we also wanted to go to the Creation Museum and this was the only way we had time to stop. Our family enjoyed that very much, esp. since Creation Ministeries was just our church and talked about a lot of the same stuff that was at the museum. Our favorite part was the show The Cosmos! Amazing facts, makes one feel pretty small! We have an amazing Creator... We got to use Matt and Amy as a motel of sorts, we made our selves at home and the girls had fun getting out of the suburban and playing with boy cousins that they don't see very often...i could have stolen that chubby little baby of theirs! Friday was spent baking for farmers market, i have to say it takes a certain amount of dedication to bake as much as Amy does! Every week, i'd get tir...

This summer started out with a bang..we headed to Indiana right after school was out and met my whole family there for two reunions with my amish relatives. Norv and the kids had never met them so it was high time to introduce them! Of course the highlight was spending Memorial Day @ my uncle Steve's house. He had a toy to make everybody happy! It was so hot and muggy and the fields were so wet because of so much rain they'd been having . There was even a mini tornado went through the night before this picture was taken,we missed it . We were about an hour away at the time. The whole Floyd Kauffman tribe.... This has been a favorite pastime for these two this year. They're trying to get Dusty trained for Samantha to be able to ride her. We seeded our pasture area this year, but as you can see it needs some help...Norv wants to plow it up and start over! I'm missing this kid o...