Alpine Days this past weekend was pretty awesome. Whoever was in charge made some great improvements to most everything, especially the events Friday and Saturday. After the parade, which was pretty typical, there were bouncy slides, carnival rides and some game booths at the nearby park. Initially we went to see all the activities available only out of curiosity. The all day wristbands were eight dollars apiece and we had no plans on purchasing any but then a kind City Councilman came across Greg and the kids and couldn't understand why Greg wouldn't be given free wristbands for his kids since he's a city employee. So the kind man took it upon himself to walk over to the ticket booth and made sure all of our kids got wristbands. Obviously the kids were in heaven and spent the rest of the day at the new park going on rides, jumping off bouncy slides and cliff jumps until they were sunburned and happy. And the fireworks show later that night was something you just had to be there to witness because it was absolutely amazing. Overall it was a pretty great celebration.
Let the parade begin.
Showing her patriotism like a good girl!
These kids love the free stuff handed out at the parade.
In awe of all that is available to be enjoyed.
Train ride.
Swings!
Boats.
Rockets, only Charlie was allowed on this ride, the boys were too big.
Isaac in a freefall.
I can't believe another Alpine Day's celebration has come and gone. A little depressing.
Sunday can be exhausting!
Naps are hard to come by on Sundays.
Then it was Charlie's 2nd birthday! Charlie's fun, busy, loves strawberry milk, takes the best naps and is loud and demanding. We think she's pretty great!!
Birthday Girl!
Sporting some cute new pants.
Time for the family to eat cake and ice cream in honor of Charlie's big day.
When you're only two Mom gets to choose your birthday cake. (3 lbs. of fudge just in the frosting! YES!!)
This is one way to eat cake and ice cream.
Time for presents.
Aunt Heidi was a great gift opening buddy!
Aunt Kristin was a great distractor from opening the rest of the gifts. (Please ignore my finger in the corner, I struggle with that!)
Her very own wiggle car, she's in heaven!
She loves her new ride! She's a wiggle car riding fool.
It's been a fun week and the last full week of summer vacation. Only 5 days left before school starts! Two backpacks are already full of supplies. We won't know for sure who Carter's teacher is until Monday afternoon but Brock has Ms. Jacobs who was Isaac's kindergarten teacher 6 years ago and hopefully will work well with Brock. Of course Mark and Isaac won't know what supplies they need until they actually start attending classes but hopefully we have a good stockpile of what they need so I won't need to run to the store for another couple of weeks. Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike school?! I am not looking forward to making lunches every day and I especially dread homework but I am somewhat excited for going to bed earlier. At least I only have three kids to make lunches for instead of four. (High school students/Mark are on their own for lunch.) Here's to making it through another school year!
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