I'm sticking with 'Barn Raising'

Yesterday we spent a greater part of the day helping some friends' construct a garage on their property (visited previously). And by we, I mean Taylor. The boys and I did go up with him though, as did many other of the wives and children. The kids spent several hours playing on top of a dirt hill. One large dirt hill and about a dozen kids 8 and under.


The women sat around talking and eating. (Except Nannette the 8 month and 3 week pregnant one...she spent the morning attempting to induce labor by helping the men.) It really was a lot of fun I thought. And Taylor had a blast! He really loved working on the arches and putting up each one. They got 6 of 23 up in the five hours we were there. It was A LOT of work! The men are heading back up tomorrow for a couple of hours.

After the work was done three of the families were still there and we had pizza and swam in the slimy, grimy lake. The boys had a ton of fun playing in the dirt ALL day!