LA trip

This past weekend my family went to St. Francisville, Louisiana (You thought we went to Los Angeles didn't you :) My brother-in-law, Ross, just got a job as the youth pastor at a church in St. Francisville. A couple at the church is letting them stay at their lake house about 20 minutes from town for three months rent free so they can figure out where they want to live and Steph can find a job..how sweet is that!

The Lake House

The Lake is just a minute down the road from the house

St. Francisville is a very small town...we are talking one grocery store, no chain restaurants, no Wal-Mart, no Starbucks, one high-school...my kind of town (except I would have to figure out the no Starbucks thing and maybe get it shipped in somehow :) On Saturday, Ross and Steph showed us around the town. The town has several old Plantation Homes and I was so excited to get to see them. I am working on a bucket list that I am going to post some time soon and one of the things I have always wanted to do is tour a Plantation Home. Next time we visit we are going to take a tour of one, but we didn't have time this trip.

The Myrtles Plantation

The Myrtles Plantation is a twenty room Plantation home that was built in 1796 by Gen. David Bradford....leader of the Whisky Rebellion. I could just picture the women in their big dresses walking around holding umbrellas back in the day.

This is the Church where Ross works. We went to church with them on Sunday and it was the pastor's 50th anniversary of his ordination that day. We joked that we picked the right day to visit because after service they had a "covered dish" luncheon and I seriously have never seen so many homemade casseroles, desserts, salads, pasta, gumbo, etc. in one place. It was all so good.

We also drove by and took pictures of the Rosedown Plantation

The Rosedown Plantation was my absoulute favorite...I love all the huge oak and moss trees lining the entrance.

St. Fancisville is full of history and so we stopped and took pictures at the West Feliciana railroad..one of the South's earliest railroads.



We took some pictures before church on Sunday






Ross and Steph just bought a really nice camera, so we decided to take family pictures while we were all together. Here are a few of my favorite ones.....

I love this old, faded red barn that was on the property..it was the perfect backdrop for the family pictures. Stephanie is very creative and she posed us all for the pictures..I love how they turned out!

This is my favorite one!

Ross was playing with photo editing and came up with this...doesn't it look like a band picture for an album cover..too bad none of us can sing :)

I love this one too!

We took some pictures sitting in the grass, but the sun was so bright that most of them didn't turn out. We are dressed for Fall,but it was 90 + degrees outside!

I can't wait to go back and visit again, tour the Plantation homes and go in all the shops downtown.