The Sanger Family

Friday, September 16, 2011

Strasburg Railroad

This past week we went to the Strasburg Railroad with Rachel and Jude. Joshua, Lillia, Hope, Joyanna, and Elainah had earned free tickets from the summer reading program at our library. We decided on the 1:00 p.m. train ride and had it almost to ourselves!

Beautiful Elainah!

Lillia

The girls...Lillia, Hope, Joy, & Elainah

David wouldn't look at the camera so Mommy snapped a picture
while he and I watched the smoke billowing out of the stack!

Hope, Joy, Lillia, & Elainah

Joshua boarding the train!

Joy!

Jude and Rachel

Joshua and Jude

Hope, Joy, Elainah, David, & Lillia

THE BOYS!
Joshua, David, & Jude

David

Hope, Lillia, Joy, & Elainah

Hope

Elainah by the locomotive

David was so funny in the puddles! He would stand there and stomp his feet

so the water would splash him! He was soaked in the end!

smashed pennies!

Lawbreaker Lillia!

Lillia and Hope crossing the tracks

Monday, September 12, 2011

A Bright and Sunny Afternoon...

It has been raining for the past week and we have had flooding around our house. All the tiny, trickling creeks have become miniature Mississippi's!

So on Friday we decided to take advantage of the bright and sunny day and go for a walk/bike/ride to visit our neighbors! Joshua, Lillia, and Hope rode their unicycles, Joy rode her bike, Mommy walked, and Elainah and David got a ride in the bike cart behind my bike. It was very nice to be out in the sunshine after being cooped up inside the house for a week!

Joshua on his giraffee unicycle & Lillia on her unicycle

Mommy, Joy, Joshua, and Lillia

Hope

Our Amish nieghbor's made this red-neck go-cart...

It is a wooden wagon with a gas engine on it.

It can go up to 30 m.p.h.!

Joshua R. starting it up...

Joy, Kathryn, Lillia, Hope, Hannah, & Elainah

Becca offered us some fresh pears from their orchard!

Tye Dying

Eight years ago Mommy and the other homeschool mothers at our church started a club for homeschool girls, called, "Keepers At Home". Every second and fourth Thursday throughout September to May we meet at a members home and are taught a skill that the mother of that member has chosen to teach. This past Thursday was our first meeting for this year. We were taught at Sis. Annette's home on how to do tye-dying. We watched a few helpful video clips on how to do the different designs and then we began.
Our shirts had been soaking for the last 20 minutes in soda ash water, this helps the shirt colors to remain bright. We wrung out our shirts so they were only a little damp and then we began to choose our designs. I chose a pattern called "Sunbursts", everyone else in my family chose the "Spiral".