Mayfield Dairy


After four years, we made it back to the Mayfield Dairy. We came here when Cosette was on week old. We had been at home all week and were stir crazy. I remember I was so nervous taking her out because I was worried she was going to scream the whole tine, and then getting used to nursing, especially in public made me nervous. Her first time at the dairy went smooth. She was a perfect baby. Everyone has to wear a hair net when you take the tour, and they made her wear one as well. She was so little she wore a bread net, because if you had a beard you had to put a hair net over it. It was the cutest thing I had seen in my life at that point. Since then we have been wanting to take the kids back It was a really sweet outing, our first one as a family. Lyndon is very sentimental about things like that, so this has been on his Tennessee list for a long time.
 
We went with our best friends to hang out with in Tennessee. These girls met in their swimming class two summers ago and have been bffs ever since. We do a lot with them whenever we come to Tennessee. We love this family. 
 
It was interesting to learn about how the food we eat is packaged and sent to our local grocery stores. At this Mayfield dairy they do milk and ice cream. We learned that Mayfield uses yellow plastic for their milk packages because it keeps the milk fresh longer. We ended the tour wit some delicious ice cream. And left wanting more. We are ice cream fiends.
 
 We could not manage getting a picture of all the kids looking at the same time so here are a few of the kids in their hair nets. Raphael wore one like Cosette did her first time here. It kept going over his face because it was too big.


The best one of Raphael in his hair net!


And there it is over his face.


After the tour Cosette decided she wanted to keep her hair net on. There was a cow replica that the kids could milk. They can learn what their Grandparent's childhoods were like, waking up at the crack of dawn, walking out in the snow to the barn to milk cows.


Getting the ice cream at the end of the tour is the best part. They liked theirs so much that they would not let me get a picture of them with it. Like I said we are ice cream fiends!
 

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