A Visit With Friends

Friday evening we had some friends over from western Pennsylvania.  Sis. Elsie's sister and mother were in to visit them from western Canada so we thought it would be fun for them to experiance an Amish buggy ride.  Our neighbors came over and gave buggy rides then stayed to visit for awhile. 

 Off they go!

 

 Mahlon and Kathryn

 

 Chantel and I

 

 Becca and Sarah visiting together

 

We had a cake for Elainah's "early" birthday celebration

 

 Sis. Elsie, Sis. Sarah, & Sis. Mary Anne

 

Hope and Bethanny

 

 

Too Cute To Eat!

Thursday afternoon our Keeper's club met at Sis. Kim's house for a meeting to play with food!

Last year at our Keepers Banquet, Sis. Judy made a beautiful (and yummy) braided bread.  The meeting started off with a demonstration.  Each family brought a fun snack for everyone to make and at the end we all enjoyed some fresh bread and our creative snacks!

 Sis. Judy separated her dough into three sections which she rolled out.

 

Instead of starting at the top, when you braid bread you start in the middle and go to each end.

 



Grace and Emily working on their "apple frogs" :)

 

 

The frog's body is an apple, the eyes are cream cheese balls with chocolate chips, and the legs are grapes cut in half!

 



Faith and her "car".

A milkyway candy bar with M&M wheels stuck on with peanut butter, and a little graham man driver :)

 



Hope working on her sheep!

 



 

 Working on our owl cupcakes!  These were so cute!

A cupcake for the base, an oreo cookie for the eyes, an M&M beak, and two pieces of candy corn for the feathers!

 

 

Working on a butterfly cupcake

 

 



Faith showed us how to make fun penguins out of olives, cream cheese, and carrots!

 



"Pencils" out of cheese sticks, boglona, a bugle and raisin, with cream cheese for "glue".

 



Tasting the snacks!

 



This was a really fun meeting!  We all had fun playing with our food!

 

 

 

Sunday Morning In Amish Country

We often see sights like this on our way to church Sunday mornings

and yesterday we happened to have the camera along!

 

The Amish have church every other Sunday morning.  The "in-between" Sunday allows time to visit other church districts and to visit with other families in their community. Services are held either in the barn or in the house, depending on which has the most space.

 

Yesterday we were on our way to church and saw...

...all these Amish hats hanging on the bush outside while they had church!