We had a visit from Grandma Marla, Grandpa Sterling, Aunt Chris, and Aunt Traci! |
Louis loved all the attention :) He can't wait for our visit to Utah and Wyoming (hopefully soon!) |
Dan and I tried to find some interesting things to show our visitors. We found Cedar Grove Cheese plant in a little town called Plain. |
So we watched the big arms stirring the curds and weigh. When the curds are ready the weigh is drained and the workers scoop the curds up. |
They shovel them into the boxes lined with cheese cloth, where the curds are then squeezed together to make bricks of cheese. |
Cedar Grove has been open for a loooooooong time. These pics were on the wall showing how they made cheese before I was born. :) |
I had a blast :) and Louis enjoyed himself too. |
Gram and Grandpa seemed to enjoy the field trip. |
We learned they make all kinds of cheeses! Cow milk, organically fed cows milk, goat milk, buffalo milk... I think I'll stick to my colby jack and mozz cheese :) |
We got to taste a sample of Gouda cheese. Not our favorite... |
We did like the squeaky cheese curds though... |
Louis was tuckered out from learning about cheese. |
This little Cedar Grove plant was pretty small for how much cheese is made daily! They get thousands and thousands of pounds of milk to make cheese nonstop. |
Never a dull moment with Traci and Chris :) |
I think they love getting their pic taken! |
Mom and Dad with a lighthouse! They had recently been to New Hampshire and had a pic with a lighthouse there... |
Dan and I showed them the tasty side of our new home: CULVERS. We talked them into trying fried cheese curds :) |
We took our visitors to church with us! We were excited/ because Chris spoke and shared mission stories. We were glad since we weren't there when she reported in her home ward. |
We invited the missionary couple Elder and Sis Ekins over for lunch. We had a great time visiting in our squishy space :) |
I think my family had a fun time taking pics of us.... |
I can't help but post this one though because Dan loves to get Louis giggling... with his rendition of "Lion King"... |
The Rotary club put together a display for the first year here! I loved driving around looking at the lights; a tradition my family did every year. It was fun to share with them this year again. :) |
Next year our church is going to put one in! |
This guy was playing frisbee golf! The round blue frisbee "moved" across the chain link fence. AWESOME! |
Being so far away it feels like we don't get to see our families nearly enough! You're in our hearts though and we love you very very much! |
It was really quiet after the Fairbourn's left. We had to spice things up a little and Louis came to the rescue :) |