The role of father also takes on many names around here and it's been a weekend of celebrating all the awesome dad's in our lives. Evangeline and I went with my dad to Clay City, IN for the Pottery Festival on Saturday. It was so much fun. We ate a chicken dinner under a pavilion, watched a marching band perform local tunes, took a fabulous tour of the pottery factory and enjoyed an exceptionally beautiful day together. The tour of the factory was so interesting. This factory has been in production since 1885 and they still make their pottery in much of the same way that they did a hundred years ago. It was very fascinating to see how they manufacture so much pottery at once. Their huge, old kiln is how I picture the oven in the story of Hansel and Gretel. All of the clay they use for their pottery comes from right there in Clay City. Dad bough 50 pounds to try on his own wheel.
Since a little person around here is still all about the Asian culture with an emphasis on China, I broke out one of my old tea sets for her to play with while we were visiting at Dad's house. This one is from Japan. I have some really awesome things Terry sent me from Japan when I was little. They have just been waiting for someone to play with them again.
Later that evening we attended the wedding of another one of my former youth group kids, Dana Miller. Kyle was actually asked to do the sound for her ceremony, so we were considered to be part of the wedding party. It was quite the busy day.
On Sunday we visited Wayne. After lunch the girls played in the sprinkler and then Karen, Kristen and I took the girls swimming. Kyle got to chill out and do two of the things he loves best, play his guitar and nap.
At this very moment Evangeline is having her first slumber party. Oh, she was so excited to pull out the trundle bed and use it for the first time. As I write this I'm listening to three giggling and whispering girls in their beds. I already had to go in and remind them that it's sleepy time. Hmmm, maybe they already forgot. They've had a fun evening putting on a "silly fashion show" and watching Frozen for the 1,384, 359 time. They recited every word and belted out every song. During "Let It Go" we had a room full of little brown-haired Elsa's dancing around and singing at the tops of their voices. Reminds me of myself after "The Little Mermaid" came out.
What a nice weekend. I'm happy we got to spend such special moments with our Dads this weekend. Evangeline, we sure do have a lot of wonderfully amazing men in our lives.
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