Last week, we went to the park with Jon's family, who also homeschool and are good friends of ours, for a program called "The Journey of Gingerbread". The place is an 1800's working farm with a beautiful farmhouse and lots of animals, the perfect place for a history lesson! It was a gorgeous but freezing cold day. Not freezing like today though! Brrrr! Thankfully, the farmhouse was nice and warm though :)
We arrived late but that worked out really well for us.We got there just in time for the story, The Gingerbread Man of course ;), then the sweet lady teaching the program split us into two groups. We easily made up an entire group ourselves with ten kids and two adults so she kept us all together which worked out perfectly! She then told us where several spices came from and gave us the history of each and how it has been used. It was so fun! She had samples of each that our families passed around smelling and, in some cases, sampling. Then we got to ice and decorate gingerbread cookies!
The path leading up to the farmhouse is really beautiful and so are these two sweet friends:
As we got close, we passed a chicken pen and all the younger kids had to take a peek.
My dad says I need to get our kids out to the farm more often. I think he might be right! They loved all the animals.
After the story, we decorated cookies!
That smile on Nick's face says it all; there's nothing better than friends and cookies!
Megan doing her typical pose:
She'll have her head pointed straight at the camera but her eyes look off....all the time. She does not make it easy on me ;)
Above and below, boys focused on their decorating ;)
Kristen couldn't have any cookies, so she helped with chores:
And she talked Bethany into helping! Cute, little wood-carriers :)
Check out that kitchen! It is so much fun going to programs there and letting the kids see what things where like. I love me some "living history" :)
I don't know what these girls were talking about, maybe the fact that they were carrying wood while all the boys were decorating/eating cookies?? hehehe
It was so much fun, I'll be posting more pictures from our afternoon later!
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