Rushmore and Shoal Creek Living History Museum

I wrote an entire long blog and its gone.  How frustrating.  BLAH! 

Short version:

Ashy and Brit in Wyoming for the summer.  Miah went to pick them up.  Took Aidan and Liam.  Decided to take a scenic detour to Mount Rushmore.  Liam was so cute and said "which one is Rushmore daddy?"

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I'm home with Elise, Julianna and Camryn so I took them to the Shoal Creek Living History Museum.  It's an authentic 19th century Missouri village.  The buildings are all real log cabins, homes, a mercantile, a church, a one room schoolhouse, from all over Missouri that were relocated to Shoal Creek to recreate a town.  There were volunteers dressed in 19th century clothes, churning butter, tending the register at the mercantile, causing ruckus in the street, and teaching at the school. Aside from being able to ring the bell at the church the highlight of the day was going to school. The girls got to go to the one room school house and participate in an arithmetic lesson complete with word problems, addition, and subtraction.  The teacher was so great!  The girls were sad when they had a little break and the lesson was over. They were really wanting to stick around for the next lesson.  Hope they are always that enthusiastic about school!  I'm so glad we made the drive out there because it was a super fun day!  

Hanging out at the chicken coop.  That rooster was a pretty vocal.

Churning some butter (which we got to try on saltine crackers!  Not bad)

It was seriously hot in that school room.  Blah!  Camryn was over it!

Next up,  Jeremiah returns from Wyoming with the rest of my kids and I can finally feel whole again with all my children under one roof.  It'll be nice to finally get a good nights rest because I haven't really slept well since they've all been gone.