Old Fashioned Day!

OlD fAsHiOnEd DaY!

Our Church has Old Fashioned Day every September and it's a BLAST!

This year we had:

~ Great Gospel Music ~

~ Fantastic Lunch on the Grounds ~

~ Old Fashioned Outdoor Preaching at 3PM*~

~Sharp Shooter Championship~

~Dessert Contest~

~Greased Pig Catch for the Kids~

~Pocket Knife Display~

~Tug-of-War~

*Amens and Handkerchief Waving Encouraged!

Of course I had to take a picture of my little man!

 Looking at the goings-on! :)

There's my smile!

 Now for the Pig Catch! 

 Charlie really thought this was cool! 

I think he wished he could have gone in, too! 

 Charlie and Allie!

 Poor Wilbur! That's who this pig reminded me of!

 But~ let's take it up a notch~ grease it!!

 Go get him Wesley!!!

 Good job Connor!!! 

 He finally pulled the pig to the middle circle!

 And the poor pig was so wore out he was afraid to move a muscle!

 Now that he was wore out it was time for the little kids to try their hand at it!

 Almost! The grease was really making it tough!

 C'mon Mikayla! :)

 "Not so fast!" said the little pig.

 Maybe a towel for more grip might work!

 Yay! Finally! Whew!!

 Now for the knife show!

 Wow! These were avid collectors of some pretty amazing knives! 

It's hard to see from this picture, but this case holds knives of every president with their picture on it! Except for the 44th president, he doesn't have one yet.

I wish you could see the one on the bottom left- it's Abe Lincoln's. Really neat! This was my favorite collection!

Then we had the singing! This is our men's quartet, most of the songs they sing are acapella and they are awesome! Scott, the guy in the black hat also plays the piano, which he did today as well. It was really good!

~Notice I didn't get any pictures of me and my 2 plates full of food!! The desserts were amazing, too bad I did not get to try the 1st place winner's cherry struesel! But the cheesecake, apple pie and eclair cake were awesome!!

Tiffany sang a beautiful song! 

It went right along with her beautiful voice!

As I finished my dessert (the same ones mentioned above, not round 2, although if no one was looking and there was any left, I might have had more!) I decided to go photograph the Tug-of-war. I got all the way over the match and everyone turned around and walked towards me! I had missed it! So, no pics of that!

I also didn't get any pictures of the Sharp Shooter Championship. It's tough trying to keep all the gear I had with me in sight and Charlie! He was off and running on everyone's blankets and seeing what they had in their cups! 

We really had a great time! The Pastor's message wasn't about the "Old Fashioned ways" and how things should stay the same, however, it was about the things that MUST change; In particular, "Lord, Change ME!" 

We also opened a time capsule from 1994! 

It was neat to see all the old tapes, pictures of people that had passed away, and art work from 3 year olds that are now 19 and off to college! 

Time flies. 

We only get one life. 

Makes me love more, hug longer and be slow to get angry at the things that don't go "perfect". 

It's life. Live it for God and you'll have a life well lived; with no regrets, little heartache, and many memories!