"Balloon" show

We drove to the Middletown airport for the annual balloon festival. I was very excited to see the hot air balloons. Note: do not rely on a sleep-deprived mama to plan! I didn't look carefully at the schedule, and we (Jeff and I, the kids didn't seem to mind) were very disappointed that we completely missed the balloons. If you want to see the balloons at the balloon festival, you have to get there at 7 am or 7 pm. *sigh* We got there at 4 pm, so obviously we didn't last until 7 pm. And of course we spent most of the time there wondering where the balloons were, why they had none out at all, etc. Maybe next year.....

Anyway we made do with the other activities, which included eating fried food, sitting around the grass in the shade, and riding a train! Yay!


Sean has always loved these. Oh I will be so sad when one day he has outgrown it! So cute!

Teresa and I found some shade and hung out.

Note that she is wearing blue. Never you mind that it was a dress - I heard at least two people refer to her as a "he." :/





















We also found one of Sean's FAVORITE trucks, a Chevrolet Avalanche, so we took a picture of him in front of it. He loves these and is "saving 100,000 quarters" to buy one some day! :)

In completely unrelated news, I was very excited to see this out on our deck one day. After two years of trying, I finally got a poppy to bloom! Too bad they only last a day or so, but I love them!

Eleven months!

Around the house

My sweet baby.

My sweet boy. (It was bow day apparently, and he is working on coloring in books for a reading program the library is having this summer.) The top of the buffet is his realm now, since that's the one place in the family room Teresa can't reach....yet!

The fourth of July parade

Some brief highlights from the fourth of July parade:


Sean was very excited about all the trucks, cars, and other vehicles. I'd say this is one of his favorite days of the year!




This was something I'd not seen before at the parade.




My favorite, the calliope. Oh I would love to play the Notre Dame fight song on one of these....

More Safety Town

I am now going through July pics and found some more from Safety Town. Oops!

I'm guessing maybe this was the stop drop and roll?

All of the children got to play around Safety Town one last time on the last day, after graduation. Teresa and I found some shade nearby. Unfortunately the fun for her ended when she started licking the fence, and then I had to hold her the rest of the time. She is my little puppy! And by the way did I mention that her first word was "doggie"? She loves dogs, cats, birds, oh and the fly that's been buzzing around our kitchen for a week that we just can't seem to smash.

Ok anyway back to Safety Town..... Sean loved riding around on the cars.




The leader of the pack!