A MEDIEVAL CELEBRATION

The day has finally arrived. Olivia has been wanting to have a "Medieval Feast" for quite some time. She loves this time period in history. She thought it would be nice to have it during a "cool" time of the year and since it was actually on Ariana's birthday, they could celebrate together. Everything went pretty close to the way they had planned it to go. A few "dangerous" games were changed by their father, but there were still enough of those left. The only game that we thought would be the safest, turned out to be the most dangerous!!

It was a great day

Jess, Liv and Ariana



Thomas & Jonathan


(Greeting the guests)Mrs. Stokes, Jess and Mrs. P

Liv and Gabriel

(brother and sis and best friends)

The Monk
The Court Jester
Cathy and Mary (cousins) Cousins
Is he serious???

Ben and Rachel

(Brother and Sis)

Gabriel and Ariana

(Brother and Sis)

Matthew and Gracie

(Cousins)

Michael and Julia

(Brother and Sis)

Jordan and Christiana

(Cousins)

I told you this was the most dangerous game!!!!

Peter and Sarah

(Brother and Sis)

Ready, with their "family crest flags" to play the games

Knife throwing log

(This game took the place of sword fighting)

The Monk is trying to keep us safe from "the enemy"

Julia

GraceKittyTime to Feast Is it so, The Monk trying to destroy Lady Mary

The king will take care of this !!! The king, the sailor and Lady Haley

ALWAYS enjoy being together

The Pollock Clan with, well, you know who !!

The Graves clan and CJ

Brothers (they're so authentic looking)

Stokes Clan

A few modern games, after the feasting

There are only two left in costume and they blend so well together

Ye Ende

SWITCHING GEARS

Sometimes you just have to be flexible. While trying to diligently work to get ready for Olivia's 17th and Ariana's 16th Birthday party, and already behind schedule, we get a call that we need to change our sewing room into a butcher shop. Being the party is tomorrow, and we are behind on what we have left to still get ready, we do what we have to do and quickly switch gears. It usually always works out in the end and in this case it did as well. The Dischers and some of the Millers came over for a hands on Science Class and were a great help. Thankyou for all the help!!

Sewing flags, before switching gears

The most important part of butchering



Gutting (1300 pounds)
Skinning Knife Sharpeners, (Very Important)

Keeping the meat cool, before cutting off the fat


The Cutting Crew (Very Dangerous)
More of the Cutting Crew
Uncle Tom is the Grinder
More Cutters

Thomas (cutting the butcher and freezer paper into just the right sizes)
Grace (Weighing the meat & wrapping)

The Wrappers, (Sarah and Grace)

The "unlabeled" finished product

Disinfecting (Before and After) Butchering
Still cleaning


We are finished and satisfied