Scavenger Hunt and Smuckers

Apparently all of our weekend activities start with the letter "S", as is evidenced by my last three posts....sorry, I'm running out of creative titles! Anyway, we visited the headquarters for Smuckers this weekend. They have a store and cafe inside a big red barn in Orville, Ohio. They were having an ice cream social and had activities for kids. Benny won a jar of hot fudge topping during a bean bag toss, so I can't complain. :) He also wanted his picture taken with the Pillsbury Dough Boy...who wouldn't? (Pillsbury is apparently part of the Smuckers "family of brands"...I didn't know that.)

Oh..and yesterday afternoon some friends of ours who moved away a few years ago were in town and stopped by for a quick visit. Aubrey (bottom left picture) was born two weeks before Ben and the two of them had fun playing together for a bit yesterday. We wish they still lived in town so our kiddos could hang out more...us too!

I was trying to think of something fun to do with Benny late afternoon yesterday, so I came up with the idea of a scavenger hunt outside. He's been begging me to let him take pictures with my camera lately, so I thought I'd try to combine the two. My camera is big and heavy, but he was able to take each of the pictures below (with the exception of the one of his own hand holding the tiny rolly polly). I did do some cropping to fit them all in the collage, but he found each item and took it's picture. It was pretty fun, actually. It was a little too easy, but I think he mostly just wanted to use the camera. :) He was proud.