Hello everyone! I hope you’re surviving the summer heat. 😛
2018 is over halfway done! Only 165 days until its 2019. We’ve already had several adventures in the halfway point month of this year and I’m going to try to do a mini series about a few of them.
First up is definitely of highlight of June: a barn dance! Our friend Sam(antha) wanted to have a barn dance in celebration of her birthday, and we got to have it in our shop. There was a lot of sweeping, washing, cleaning up and decorating in preparation, but we all really enjoyed it – even my brothers! 🙂
We started decorating the shop in the morning. We had picked some bouquets and gotten some streamers (which actually didn’t work because the humidity made them go limp) so we set to work setting those up. After a little while Sam’s family came and brought more decorations! We put those up, ate lunch, and changed into our barn dance clothes.
Allison and Sam had basically identical outfits! I took this picture from the loft in the shop.
There were very many dances ranging from simple to confusing, and they were all fun. The most confusing dance was also the dance which I laughed the most in because of how tangled up everyone got. Allison and I finally took a break and took pictures during one of the last dances. Allison took pictures first and then switched out with me. The first three pictures are by her and the rest are the ones I took.
I learned that it is quite difficult to take pictures of large groups of people. You’re bound to have a few interesting expressions whether they’re intentional or not.
After the last dance (Jeff says he could have kept doing that one forever XD) we had supper and some of the kids went down the the huge hay barn and played on the hay bales which was also quite fun.
Hopefully we’ll be able to do another barn dance sometime!
have you ever done a barn dance?
magnolia flowers, daisies, or ferns?
P.S. My posts may lack featured images for a while because the internet is so slow and PicMonkey doesn’t work well with slow internet.
Who ya dancing with Alison??Oooo!!!
p.s My sister is named Samantha and her birthday is today too!
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It’s my brother Logan. 😛
P.S. That’s cool!
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so sry, I meant Megen.
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That sounds like real fun! My family did some dancing too, but it’s nothing like this. THAt was a blast! 🙂 Love the one of Carmen on the haystacks turned couch. -Jo
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Yes it was! Ooh, fun! Yeah, Allison found that idea on Pinterest so we decided to try it.
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Ooh, that looks like a ton of fun! I’ve only been to one barn dance (sorta) before, and there weren’t organized dancing, just a bunch of music and people. XD It was fun though!
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It was! Okay, cool!
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“wasn’t” XD
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That’s so fun! I’d love to do that. 🙂
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Yes it is! I hope you can sometime.
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Awe! That looks so fun!! 😀 Great photos!
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It definitely was! Thank you!
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Yay! 🙂
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What fun!!! 😀 I’ve never been to one, but it looks so fun! 🙂 I loved the pictures, and you, Allison and Samantha’s outfits were so pretty, oh, and so was Carmen’s. 😉
To answer your question, I like magnolia blossoms best of the three options, hehe. 😛
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Yep! Yeah, it was super fun. Thank you!
They are really pretty.
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I loved seeing these pictures, Megan! I look really hot. 😜 (Can’t imagine why…) Magnolias are definitely my favorite! I really wish we had magnolia trees at our house.
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Thanks Sam! Haha, yeah, I wonder why…
They are so… hugely beautiful?
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Sam told me you were planning to do that! I wish I could have come danced. The only time I’ve tried to have a barn dance it ended with people strewn on the floor.
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That would have been fun if you could! 🙂 HAHA that sounds interesting…
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OOH THAT LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN. Also Allison said y’all are going to teach us to barn/square dance when we’re there, AND I’M SO EXCITED. I can’t wait to learn, it looks SO. MUCH. FUN!
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YES IT WAS! Yeah, we’ll have to! It is so much fun, and hopefully we won’t roast…
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OH TELL ME ABOUT IT. Man, it’s hot here but not nearly as hot as your place…I’m going to die, Megan, simply DIE.
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HEHE. Well that won’t do. Maybe dad will be able to fix the AC in the Cedar House by the time you come… JUST KIDDING.
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HA HA, YEAH, I WAS GETTING WORRIED THERE FOR A SECOND.
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XD
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THAT LOOKS SO FUN! And tiring! But mostly fun! XD You got some awesome pictures. 😀 And hmm… I think magnolia flowers are my favorites. 🙂
-Clara ❤
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IT CERTAINLY WAS! And yeah, it was definitely tiring to. But yep, it was mostly fun! XD Thanks! Too bad I can send magnolias in envelopes. XD
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ooh that looks so fun!! 😀 I’ve never been to a barn dance. and the place looks so cute.
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It was a ton of fun. Hopefully you can sometime! Thank you!
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GORGEOUS PHOTOS! Looks like you had fun! 🙂
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THANK YOU! Yes, we certainly did!
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XD i bet!
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😛
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This looks so fun, and your photos are lovely, as usual, 😉 Now I really want to do something like this. XD
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It was, and thank you! I hope you can sometime. 🙂
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That sounds so cool!
Nabila | Hot Town Cool Girl
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It was actually quite hot. XD But yes, it was a lot of fun!
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How fun! I love this style of dancing! What were some of the dances y’all did (if you don’t mind me asking)? And I love ferns!
I love your blog! Keep up the good work!
-Emma
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Yes it was fun! Hmm… we did the Snowball Reel, the Posties Jig, the Spanish Waltz, the Virginia Reel… those are the names that come to mind.
Thank you so much Emma!
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So fun!! I love all those dances! I have never heard of the first one, but I will look it up on youtube! I love learning new dances!
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Thanks! That one was so neat and it was never ending. XD
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