Thursday, June 16, 2016

Art City Days

We look forward to Art City Days every year.  Traditions are fun!

June 7, 2016 - Art City Days Carnival
We decided to take our kids to the carnival on the cheaper ticket night and meet up with our Aussies.  It was pretty packed, but the girls still had a lot of fun.  A couple of times I went to stand in line for the next ride while they finished up on the ride they were on.  It seemed to work out okay.

Darwin, Aurora, and Savannah came down the giant slide on the same mat. Mr. P came down by himself.
I didn't realize I was shooting in black and white to start with.  Our camera is new and I'm still trying to figure out the settings :)
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I loved Savy's reaction :)
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Baby Q and Uncle Jared!
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Aurora all ready to ride the merry-go-round
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Ah, color again!  Daddy and Savy on the merry-go-round. Savy loves horses!
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Coming down a big slide!
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Savy's turn
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On a caterpillar roller coaster
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I'm glad they're old enough to think it's fun now :)  Mr. P was 2 sections behind them.
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When we were done with rides, we walked around the booths.  The kids loved the gymnastics booth and it was hard to get them away from the trampoline.
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Daddy took them to the carnival another day to finish up their tickets. Both girls came home with their faces painted so beautifully!
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And a green tongue from a pixie stick :)
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Silly Savannah :)
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July 10, 2016 - Parade and Fireworks
With Talmage being so little and Art City Days going on during my first week back at work, Darwin took the girls to the parade while Talmage and I stayed home.  Thank goodness for cameras! :)
Waiting for the parade to start
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Our girls do not like loud noises.  Especially Aurora!
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And trying to be respectful towards the flag while trying to plug her ears :)
(Thanks for sending this to me, Trace!)
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The girls loved watching for R to come by!
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Savannah says this will be her in the parade some day.  Savy LOVES horses!
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Their favorite part of the parade is collecting the candy
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When Darwin came home from the parade he started off the pictures he took by showing me this one:
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Then said this is what it had looked like earlier :)
I guess you gotta sit somewhere, right?
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Later that night we decided to put our kids to bed rather than take them to the fireworks.  Luckily for us we're living pretty close to the high school where they shoot them off so Darwin and I got to watch the fireworks from inside our cozy house while all of our kids were snoozing (minus Talmage--I had to walk around the house with him to get him to sleep while the fireworks were going off).
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Happy Art City Days!

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