Today's Activities

We had another big, exciting day of festivities! One of the festival's activities is that there was a city wide garage sale all day yesterday and part of today. While we went to garage sales for about 1.5 to 2 hours yesterday, there was only 1 garage sale on today's list. So, we were all out the door before 10:00 a.m. It proved to be worthwhile because I found more canning jars for when I can vegetables from our garden this fall. I love canning and the best part is that I bought over 25canning jars for only $4.00. What a bargain!! Afterwards we headed downtown for the annual turtle race. It was sooo much fun watching all of the childrens' faces as they cheered for their favorite turtle. Unbelievably there were 70 turtles entered into the race, so it took a good 45 minutes to complete the event. Our big boy fell asleep in his stroller (he hasn't done that for a while) and took about a 1 hour nap. While he was napping, we went to a local church's ice cream social and enjoyed some good dessert! Following the ice cream social we hung out with some friends until it was time for the "Grand Parade". We had great seats along the parade path and the parade was about 45 minutes long! So much candy was thrown to us that we had an ice cream pale filled to the brim with different kinds of candy. It was absolutely crazy! Once again, we are proud of our big boy!! He did an excellent job the entire day and we enjoyed some much needed family time. Please enjoy today's pictures. All pictures were taken at the parade.