Fun with Friends

Last weekend, we spontaneously decided to load everybody up and head to Helen, GA with some friends to check out the Folk Life Festival.  It was so nice getting out of the house and having a fun day trip with friends!  For lunch, our friends introduced us to a little German eatery in Helen - where we got some amazing German bologna, saurkraut, fresh bread, pastries.... a very yummy new experience for this pregnant mama :)  We weren't brave enough to traipse around the shops downtown Helen (9 kids, 2 strollers, and a very populated main street were enough to deter us), but I'm thinking a midweek trip sometime would be very enjoyable to see the sights in Helen. And there's always a revisit to the Grist Mill... the girls keep talking about what a neat place it was. I had hoped to take the kids to an apple orchard and pick apples before Little Miss makes her arrival, but we'll have to see if that makes it into our weekend schedule in the next 2 weeks! (Of course, we may have longer than that to work with... *wink*)

Checking out the rifle building table

restored 1850s slave cabin

Sisters :)

Little Mr. Isaac :)

Trying our hand at shelling corn

Give it several hearty cranks...

And out pops the husk! Nifty, eh?

Little Miss Hannah

Father-daughter sweetness

William, "being cool"

Jeanna Rose

A "mini-passel" of kiddos

Maggie-dear and her girls