Back blogging.. again!

Friday, June 8th:

Every year our town celebrates Art City Days. They have several activities during the week. Our favorite is the Children's Art Festival that takes place on the big lawns of the Art Museum. They have 15 - 20 different stations where you take your kids around to do different art projects. And it's all free. They have so many great ideas. Charlie has been inspired and has been doing new art projects since.





There's also a carnival. Last year when we took Charlie spent the entire time just watching the rides. He freaked out if we even suggested that he could ride them. He just wanted to stand and watch.

This year he knew that there was a little train. He really wanted to ride the train. I think he was okay with the train idea because we just went on a real train ride a few weeks ago. However, he didn't realize that he would be going on the kids train alone (They told us Jack was too little). He started to freak out. They were nice enough to let Greg come on with him but while he was waiting in line to get through, Charlie had a total panic attack and tried climbing out over the fence, screaming "NO! I DON'T WANT TO GO ALONE!" He made Greg squish on the seat next to him and then was able to enjoy the ride.

Charlie also enjoyed the super slide with Greg. But he would only watch the other rides with the cars and the flying saucers and dragons. There was nothing that could convince him to go on any of those.



Every time Jack saw kids get off of rides he yelled, "My turn! My turn!" We walked around the adult rides for awhile and Jack kept begging to go on the biggest, scariest ride that they had. He kept getting down and running to jump in line. He was convinced that was the ride for him. It looked like a lot of fun. We watched it for awhile.






Before we left we all had some Italian ice and a ride on the carousel. Jack had fun, but charlie refused to sit on the horses while they were moving. He picked the bench. He let us take a picture of him sitting on the horse after the ride. Don't be fooled. He was whining and complaining about being on it until we said, "Pretend you love it for the picture." He's a good actor.





We also ran into some friends from one of our very first married wards. We had lost touch with them after they moved up to Salt Lake, but apparently they moved to our town about the same time we did last year! They have two little boys exactly Charlie and Jack's ages. They only live a couple of blocks away from us!

SATURDAY, June 9th:

We woke up and went to the hot air balloon launch. Charlie was worried that they were going to come down and 'smash us' but was able after awhile was able to enjoy them. We didn't get there early enough to get in line.. but they do free tethered rides that take up up about 50 feet. Next year for sure.




Then, we headed over to Ted's for some prime parade seats. Greg was 'working' but was able to watch most of it with us. We love a good parade. The kids love the tons of candy they got. Jack pick up on the idea of parades really quickly.