Another Busy One

Another busy weekend, come and gone!

Friday after work me & Ryder dropped Maisy off at home with Daddy and headed into our town for their annual festival!  This weekend is a huge deal in our tiny little town, they do the Fireman’s parade one night, a huge parade with floats the next day, fireworks, a carnival, all that fun stuff! 

So Friday night we headed to the Fireman’s parade.  We had the hook-up and got great parking and great seats (thanks cousin Joni!!) and absolutely enjoyed ourselves.  We got there a little while before the parade was going to start so we walked down to the carnival.  Ryder played the balloon/darts game and won a stuffed turtle, then played the little rubber duckie game and won this huge hammer!

We stopped for ice cream on our walk back to the parade from this awesome fire truck ice cream shop…

Then it was time for the parade.  I brought Ryder’s Monster Jam ear muffs because I figured the sirens would be super loud…which they were but he LOVED every second of it and didn’t want to cover up the noise (only every now and then with his hands!). 

He was excited to see his cousin Jamie go by in this fire truck…especially because Jamie has taken him to the firehouse and let him get on this truck before.  Ryder told me to watch for the yellow truck because that’s what color Jamie’s was…he was right!

The Fireman’s parade was so cool and I loved having the one on one time with Ryder doing something he enjoyed.

The next day Little Sis wanted in on some fun, so the 3 of us (Daddy was doing a side job) headed back for Day 2’s parade.  The ice cream truck was parked not far from where we were sitting and Ryder spotted it immediately, so him & Maisy got to enjoy some ice cream on this hot summer day (is it summer yet??). 

Me & Ryder sat on the sidewalk for this parade because as the floats went by they would throw candy out to everyone.  Ryder got to hang with his oh-so-cool cousin Cameron while Maisy enjoyed her spot in the shade.

 

As part of the festival they do a beauty queen contest, and as the winner rode by on her convertible I had to get a picture of Cameron’s face, he was saying “oh yeah, this is nice, she looks good, we got good seats!” LOL

Luckily Ryder was more into his Nerds candy than any pretty girls going by!

Maisy joined us on the curb for a while, she loved the floats that played music and was dancing her little butt off.

(Look how light Maisy’s hair has gotten!  Sorry, just now realizing that.)

After the parade Ryder wanted to show Maisy the carnival, so we walked there and Ryder got on this train…his very first carnival ride!

And this would be them 2 seconds after getting buckled into the car!

We headed home for nap time, but the day wasn’t over yet.  When they woke up we headed over to Poppy’s for some good old fashioned playing in the dirt!

(That is blood all over Ryder’s shirt!!!  When we got in the car to head to Poppy’s he said “Mommy a bunch of ketchup is coming out of my nose!” and I turned around to find him covered in blood…so bazaar!)

Today Paw-Paw came to Church with us then came over to play with the kids for a little while.  Then we left and headed to Mikayla’s 4th Birthday Party!!  :)  It was at the bowling alley so of course the kids had fun celebrating with her.  Unfortunately my camera battery was dead from all of the prior action it got this weekend so I don’t have any pictures from today. 

Oh, but one more thing, Maisy’s 2nd tooth popped through! 

Shew, if only we had one more day to sleep off all of the action!