We spent a lot of time just playing inside and out. I spent some time getting ready for Bagelfest and even left Cody home with the girls one night to work on some of it. I took the ladies with me to set up the booth. They were so good while I was setting up.
We went to an antique tractor show with Ms. Sarah and Thomas. They were also out there practicing for the draft horse pull. We got to watch those for a bit then walked by the stables and a very nice man let us pet his horse and talked to us for a bit, which Lilli loved, Baylee mostly just wanted to pet his extremely overweight golden retriever. We also had a picnic in the park. We played until there was too much attitude coming from the shorter ladies in the group and we came home for naps.
Saturday, we had the Bagelfest parade. I ended up pulling the ladies in the wagon. I gave them the choice of watching and getting candy or riding in the wagon and throwing candy. Obviously they picked the latter of the two options. It was actually a fabulous day to walk in a parade. It was only 70 and partly sunny. Our ladies threw out all of their candy within 6 blocks, 4 of which had about 3 watchers on each as it was just where lineup was. I told them they could wave and say hi since they threw out all the candy already. Lilli then proceeded to let everyone we passed know the status of our situation in varying forms of "Hi...We runned out of candy because we threw it all out. We will have more next time." She had many, many people laughing and telling her that's ok. She got tired of telling them about the candy and finished off the parade route with a special song that she sang the rest of the time. It consisted of one line that goes like this "when you are loved". It was hilarious. After pulling 65 pounds in a wagon and carrying one end of a banner at 90 degrees for a little over a mile and a half, we hitched a ride in the back of our truck to the car.(I really just still enjoy riding in the bed of a truck)
That evening I worked and closed down our booth at the festival. I did get to watch a little of the Zac Brown Band concert though. Cody brought the girls up to see me and to get some funnel cake. He took Lilli to play for a bit then took the girls home and had a night with them. By the time I got home that night I was TIRED.
Sunday we went out to Walnut Point and took the girls fishing. It was cold when we got out there, good thing I had grabbed thier jackets just in case. Unfortunately, I didn't grab mine, I mean who doesn't take thier jacket when you are preparing a day of outside activities in mid July? Thankfully after an hour and a half or so of being out there, it slowly started warming up. The fishing was pretty pitiful and we only caught a few bluegill. *weeks later, we realized this had to be where Baylee came in contact with Poison Ivy. It's been a battle and still there.
On Monday, we went and had the two ladies pictures taken. It was quite the fiasco and had us jumping around like idiots in the middle of the store trying to get them to laugh or smile right or whatever it took. In the end, they turned out really well and it was hard to pick favorites....some I just like for the pure blooper value. Yes there are a lot of them, be glad, I took a lot of them out of there :)
Tuesday we took Lillibug back home. There were lots of extra laughs, hugs, kisses, and even tears but we really did enjoy her being with us.
2 comments:
The girls are adorable! I love all the pictures. Did you get rights to all of them? Can you print them yourself at your leisure? And do tell, what is Bagelfest and what did you do at your booth?
Yes I do have the rights to the pics. And you can print, alter, do whatever you like to them, you just have to take your release of copyright everytime you pick up pics. Bagelfest...we have the Lenders Bagels plant here. They have a festival every year in the park with crafts, rides, food, concerts, pageants...etc. they pick a theme for the parade and all organizations dress accordingly. Since we are the MOPS group (mothers of preschoolers) we set up a diaper changing station and nursing area. We also had a raffle for a carseat and some of our moms sold crafts at the booth and solicited new members.
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