Fun with Meg & LaMorris

Last weekend we went to IL to see my niece, Megan and her hubby LaMorris. Since they are due for their baby boy in a few weeks (July 4th) we decided to deliver the baby items we told them they could borrow. We hope to never need those items again, so... we are happy to loan them out : ) Anyways, we thought we would go up earlier in the day on Friday because we knew we had to head back home on Saturday. We didn't do much, but it was nice to just relax and enjoy our time with them. During the day Jerry put together some baby furniture while Meg, the kids and I went on a walk. They have a pond, a gazebo and a bridge all within a few feet from their house, so we enjoyed an afternoon stroll. They have the most beautiful trails directly behind their apartment, which leads to a really nice park. When we headed into the park, we noticed a lot going on. Meg said they were having some re-enactment thingy going on, on Saturday and Sunday. It was neat to see all the re-enactors setting up camp and watching the place "come to life". After time at the park, we headed home to make supper and then us girls stayed home and helped re-arrange the baby's room and watched a movie. The boys went with LaMorris to Olivet, they were having a recreation night for the freshman orientation for the '09-'10 school year. LaMorris is a student recruiter for Olivet Nazrene University so that event was part of his job. They had fun playing all kinds of games and eating with approx. 200 kids. On Saturday we had breakfast and then headed to the park next door for the festivities. We thought it was gonna cost us $10 for our entire family, which we thought was an awesome deal, but since we walked in the back way, we didn't end up paying anything, which was even more AWESOMER, LOL! We really enjoyed taking a stroll through the 1700's and seeing what life was like "back then"! We didn't stay for the battle, which was scheduled for 4:00, which was a bummer, but we would have gotten us home pretty late if we would have stayed. All in all, we had a really nice time, thanks Meg & LaMorris for having us, we really enjoyed ourselves! Next time we will be coming to meet little Mr. Kai, we can't wait to see him and love on him : ) Love ya guys!

Checking out the bridge

Eating supper, yummy

Meg & Kallee showing off their "bellies" :)

This is the back entrance to the park where we snuck in for free : )

This little guy was SO cute dressed in his clothes!

We saw these all over the place, pretty neat

Two, not so little, Indian boys wearing traditional Indian attire of the 1700's. They sure didn't have much on, but...at least they were covered.

Daddy & Kallee heading into camp

Jerry and the kids listening to what this guy has to tell them about what life was like back then

A group of people finishing up their lunch, notice the ladies at the right doing the dishes.

This guy was really nice, he explained all about this gun, how to start a fire without a match, and many other things. He was full of knowledge from this time era.

One group of troops getting ready for their duties!

It was close to lunch time when we got there, so this is what we found cookin' : ) It smelled so good, every where you went, there was food cooking over an open fire or people were washin' up their dinner dishes.

This was one of the clothing shops you could actually buy clothes at. Most all of them were

hand-sewn, so very neat and pretty, pretty expensive too. They had some beautiful clothing in there, all from that time era.