Weekend visitors!

Our awesome friends, the Lansings, came up from Richmond a couple of weeks ago. It was so fun to have them. We had a great time at home and enjoyed going out for dessert on Friday night, adults-only.

On Saturday, we took them to the annual Mennonite Harvest Day, where kids and adults get to do "old-timey" activities. Despite it being probably the hottest day of the entire summer, good times were had by all.

 Clara and Michael sawed a log; I joined in and helped Clara, but we didn't saw it all the way through (Michael was bummed I quit, but it was taking forever. There were so many other things I wanted to do!).

 Here Clara is helping to saw a piece of wood for a necklace.

 The kids and Ted were preparing to make their very own wooden nut and bolt. So cool.

 Clara and I made a rag doll out of yarn--I was impressed Clara stuck with winding the thread 100 times around one board and 50 times around the other.

 Then we washed a rag on the washboard and hung it up to dry. Who knew washing clothes by hand could be such a blast?

 This was my favorite part of the whole day--this volunteer was making true kettle corn in a big copper kettle. He stirred the kernels in the bottom with lots of oil and a lot of them just popped out of the pot, but plenty stayed in and we enjoyed a bag.

Joy and Theo at lunch. We ate with a super loud auctioneer in the background auctioning off pies and tarts, but the Strites' donut (a legend here in the Valley) and homemade vanilla ice cream that Ted treated us to made all the difference.

So glad they came--thanks again, guys!