Amish Cousins

We had a visit from my Amish cousins who live in Kansas.  They took a train trip out to California.  They visited with my dad and then they came up North to visit us.  Mary was fascinated by them and they are such sweet, sweet people.  We just felt comfortable with them right away.  Rich and I got to share our love of making bread, cheese, sausage and hams.  They like talking about that a lot.  My one cousin, Harry Wayne loves to make sausage and hams too.  We wished we could get some of the wonderful fresh milk that their cows produce to make cheese with.  We had such a great visit, just telling family stories and laughing and talking.  They are all retired now and their kids are all grown.  They all have big families and love kids, so they got such a kick out of Mary.  

 

For breakfast we went to my sister and brother-in-law's house.  Rich made homemade biscuits and my brother-in-law made gravy and eggs.  I made some sourdough cinnamon rolls.  Rich looked up the verse in Matthew 13:33 in the German Bible that the Amish use and printed it out.  He had told Harry Wayne about our sourdough bread and how in the old Wycliff Bible it said, sourdough instead of leaven in Matthew 13:33.  They thought that was pretty neat.  So he gave Harry Wayne the verse in German and asked if he would like to read it and he did. 

 

They are OK with taking pictures.  Dad had told me that they can have pictures of family members and they can take them too.  Some of them borrowed their kids phones (who are not Amish) for the trip and were able to take some pictures of family.  So I took one of Mary with 2 of my cousins and a video of Harry Wayne reading the Matthew 13:33 scripture.  Mary also drew a picture of them today.  We sure had fun and wished they lived closer so we could see them more often.