Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Connell Fall Festival

This past Friday I took the kids down to see my parents in Connell, Washington. It was Fall Festival weekend so we knew it would be an all day event! We started off at the park per Cooper's request! It only took 2 hours to get down there so it was 11am by the time we got to the park. Luckily, there is one about 30 yards from my parent's backyard! We stayed there for about 30 minutes then decided it was lunch time!

My mom pushing the kids on the swings! I don't think it matters if you have swings in your backyard or not, they still love them everywhere we go!

Reese thought it was funny that she couldn't climb up the slide but wouldn't look at me so I could get her laughing!

The picture above was the funnest part I think! My mom signed Cooper up for the Pee Wee Division of showing pigs! After all the other kids showed their pigs they brought some of the nicer ones out so the smaller kids could practice showing them! Cooper loved it! He was great at it for his first time! They gave him a cane and the girl in the picture was one of the 4-H helpers and she helped him the whole time!

The guy in the picture is the judge! He was going around asking the kids what sound a pig makes and most of them knew the answer! Then he started to ask them how their steers were doing to see if they knew the difference! The poor pigs were hot and tired so some started to lay down but I don't blame them it was hot!
Cooper got candy and a ribbon for showing a pig! It was really a neat experience for him! Chloe still tells him good job for showing a pig when she sees the pictures! Chloe wont even pet a dog so I doubt next year she will do it! Thanks mom for signing him up! It was good to see you guys!



Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Hiawatha Trail 9/5/09



Labor Day weekend we were invited along with some other families that we go to church with to bike the Hiawatha Trail! I, Carrie, haven't been on a real bicycle for about 20 years! I love indoor cycling aka spinning classes but a real bike on a road...Let's just say it has been years! There were 17 adults and 11 kids! The ages of the kids ranged from 13 years old to 10 months! Reese wasn't even the youngest!

(this is not the long tunnel just one of the many)



When you start the trail you go through an extremely dark, wet, cold 2 mile tunnel! There are little trenches on each side where water drains and I was extremely nervous I was going to crash into one...It was pretty ugly when I started to ride the bike! Ryan asked me to slow down and I told him NO because I was scared I was going to fall over! Once you come out there is a beautiful waterfall which we didn't get a picture of but maybe next year if we do this again! Our friend Robin let us put Reese in her with her 2 year old and she wasn't very happy about that! Then going through the dark tunnel I don't think helped the situation! Robin was great and kept going...I think once she ate and kind of fell asleep she was better! Wait, kids are always better when they are sleeping!!




Along the trail there were many more tunnels...We stopped and had lunch, let the kids play, then hit the trail again! The whole adventure took from the time we actually started until we hit the end where the school bus shuttles take you back to the 2 mile tunnel to get to the car took 4 hours! The whole experience was fun and I am glad my kids weren't too cranky!

She loved being out of the bike trailer!!