Lovin my Pioneer

I love Pioneer Farms near Eatonville- and families can go on the weekends through the summer! So much fun is had there. Sadly, for Maria, much work was had there as well. I wanted her to know how HARD those kids worked back then! Welcome to your new kitchen...

She is busy grinding wheat into flour.

Catching her own dinner.

Making a table leg (what? Someone has to do it!)

Guess what this makes me?

Happy Mama!

Pioneer Spirit

These are the carrots that my pioneer girls decided to plant this year. They also planted some peas, herbs and flowers. They keep digging up the carrots, so we are experiencing them in all sizes...I wonder how long they will let the last ones stay in the ground...

The lantern picture is inside their cabin/playhouse. They like to pick flowers and either press them in a book, or grind them up to see if a dye will result or a nice smelling stuff. The last picture is my girls plus Kiana. They are dressed up in pioneer clothes and you have to have braids to make the whole thing work, so Isabelle braided everyone's hair. They are so inventive!!

Pioneer Days are alive AGAIN

Okay, so we like Pioneerish stuff. We've been to a living pioneer farm in Eatonville, a living pioneer museum in Bozeman and now another in Oregon! We went to the High Desert Museum, not knowing what to expect, and got to see fantastic pioneer exhibits, plus an old cabin and sawmill. My girls eat this stuff up (okay... so do I!). It was so much fun! later that night we went back for a special event called "Mission Wolf". Two wolves from Colorado were there to teach us about brining wolves back into the western states. They rolled around on the ground, gave kisses to tons of people and became very jealous if the other wolf was getting more audience attention! The girls even got to sit on the floor as the wolves made their rounds. Can you believe that even in front of 200 people, Maria has no fear of speaking! She raised her hand and asked how big wolves are when they are born (only about a pound!). The two we saw (Magpie and Abraham) were around 85 pounds, but they looked MUCH bigger! It was a really cool experience, and I hope some of the pictures we took will turn out. I'm sure I will post them right away if they do. Isabelle already said she wants them blown up for the walls in her room!