Hay Creek Festival

This past Friday we went to the annual Hay Creek Festival at the Historic Joanna Furnace near Morgantown, PA.  Each year over 1500 volunteers bring the iron making community of Joanna Furnace back to life.  There are traditional crafts, living history presentations, vintage working equipment, classic steam and gas engines, antique vehicles and tractors for all to see and enjoy during the three day event.

Watching how books were bound back in the 18th century...
The binding process back then was much more complex and time consuming then today's.
Hand sewing the pages together made the completion of one book take approximately 10 hours. 



handquilting...
 

Making sauerkraut...an interesting little tid-bit we learned was unless you use Kosher or Sea-Salt your cabbage will turn brown.



Elainah tamping down the cabbage...



David taking a turn...



Benjamin hanging out in his sling... 



outdoor cooking...



 

weaving tea-towels on a loom
 

Joshua got to make "paper" from old linen rags



Lillia and Hope got to write their names in calligraphy



 

There was also a ventriloquist show
 

an old-fashioned bailer 



A 1930 Packard 7 passenger touring car... I can't imagine traveling in one of those with our family!



This little John Deere was remote controlled

 Pretty cool! :D

 Joshua, Lillia, and Hope made their own ropes!



 

 

Another Visit From Justin :)

A few weeks ago Justin came back to PA for a visit. We all had a lot of fun with him while he was here (especially me :)... bike rides, the rodeo, volleyball, ice-skating, and a youth group weekend excursion to Indiana, amongst other activities, all made for some fun times.
 

Taking David for a ride on the ripstick...

 

hanging out with our little friends at the bonfire :)

 

 

 We took him Ice Skating one day which was a lot of fun! :)

 

 

Justin and I left for Indiana with a van load of young people from our church on Friday.

We all enjoyed the YF Fieldhouse on Saturday before heading back to PA on Sunday.

 

A few from our group were missing in this photo... all together there were seven girls and four boys.

We got back from Indiana Sunday evening and Monday we went to Hershey Park with Lillia and Joshua.

 

Our last day together :( it was sad to say good-bye!

 

 

 

A Fun Afternoon with Friends

A few weeks ago while Joshua, Lillia, Justin, and I were at Hershey Park, Aunt Robin and her children came over for the afternoon with Grammy and Grandpa.  So all the photo credits from this posting go to Mom :)   She takes most of the pictures then I put them on here for your enjoyment.  I usually forget or don't feel like taking pictures during an event but Mom always is faithful to take pictures for me!  Thanks Mom! :)

 

 Nathan, David, Joy, and Hope in their little camp. 

 

 Enjoying their lunch

 Playing with Elainah's Play-Dough kit

 

 Genia and Elainah