William's First Soaker

I decided to make some "longies" for William when he is born.



It is done with 2 identical sides that are then sewn up for the legs and crotch.




This is one of the sides laid out flat.






I wanted them to look like jeans!

Green Soaker

Here is Emily's latest soaker.






















Back view!














Front view!

Vegetable Dyed Yarn

Dan wanted to try dyeing some yarn using vegetables. We did some with the tops of beets, carrots, and beets.







We prepared all the yarns in water with alum and cream of tartar.













This is using the tops of beets to get a dye bath.















We strained the pieces out and put the yarn in.
















This is the yarn after it was all done.












We didn't take a picture of the carrot dye bath, but this is the yarn after we were done next to the original color yarn.















This is the beets dye bath.












Here is the yarn right after we pulled it out of the beets.












This is after we rinsed the yarn off. It is laying on top of the original color yarn. We were a little disappointed with the color it turned out. We were hoping for at least a pink!

Air Show

Sarah going "flying".













Emily in "her" plane.













Dan & Emily checking out a "bird" (as Emily kept calling them!)












Dan & Sarah posing by a different airplane.

Potatoes

Emily and I dug up the potatoes and we got about 15 pounds of them!













This is one of the larger of the potatoes, but they came in all sorts of sizes!












Here is the garden now. The vine plants (watermelon, pumpkin, cantalope, and cucumber) are all dying. The sunflowers are propped up because a rainstorm knocked them down.

Danish Festival Weekend

Friday, they always have free kids events.



This year, Sarah couldn't get enough of the inflatable slide!





















Emily went down once with the help of one of the workers.















This was the first year that Sarah wanted to go in the bouncing clown. Obviously, they had a ball!










In the craft area, the girls are working on making coffee filter butterflies.











Another view of the work on the butterflies.













Sarah with her finished butterfly.



















Now we are making crowns.












Emily with her finished crown.













Sarah with her finished crown.















Here is the whole crew on Saturday for the parade.










The girls watching the parade.

"Silverware Reenacting"

Sarah and Emily are all ready for the "Silverware Reenactment" (as Sarah calls it) It is Sarah's first season in her "big girl" dress. She really likes her new necklace.

Here we are at the event

This is a close up of their doll's faces.