oh strawberry days

this week for strawberry days i was oh so lucky to be able to walk in the children's parade on wed. with the sunbeams in 95 degree weather. (insert pioneer children church toon) we walked and walked and walked aaaaand walked. i have never even acknowledged to kelton there was such a thing, therefore have never had to go, let alone walk in the darn thing. there is a real parade on saturday that we normally go to and bake..but we bake at 10a.m. instead of 4p.m. i thought, oh a few hundred little kids walking down the street, big deal. i was a bit wrong. yes, we walked down the middle of the street, with hardly a person watching, but there were literally thousands of kids. at the third block up the street (uphill-in both directions) you couldn't see the end in either direction! all of my kids came ready to walk, so i guess it was a good thing.




kelton spent the night at grandmas house on friday with the cousins and was up late. i went to go pick him up for the parade and he was just waking up (this was at 10 am!). he changed his mind on wanting to go, which wasn't a bad idea. we went to the carni and rode a the rides (thanks kev for the tickets). kelton rode a "big person" ride with me, and this is how it went.

k-so is this really scary? does it go really high? (this was after watching the ride over and over and over) it was one where you sit facing out and it lifts you up and around in clockwise fashion. not really too bad.

m-it's a little scary, but out of all the rides here, i think it's the most non scary ride (what?)

k-k, let's do it

m-just scream if you get scared

k-k, is it going to be scary?

m-hold on and scream

k-are we going to go high?

m-just hold on and scream
the ride starts

k-ahhhhhh
m-ahhhhhh

k-i can't breathe!i can't breathe! stop it! i want to get off! i can't breathe (insert huge tears) i can't breathe, stop the ride....

m-oh look at the flag on that building, isn't it cool to be the same height as the flag all the way up on that building? look how cool it's waving

k-i want to stop! i can't breathe! i want to get off this right now

m-oh, look at that-is that a bird over there? are we up as high as the birds?

k-i want off right now-more tears

m-just yell, you will feel better

k-ahhhhhhhhhh i want off this ride right nowwwwwww. ahhhhhhhhhh.....i will ride this next year!!!!!!!ahhhhhhhhhhh. ok.


m and k-----ahhhhhhh this is sooooo fun!
rides comes to a stop

k- that was pretty cool, we can ride that next year.

m-how about again right now?

k-no thanks. lets go down the slide

m-(in my head) good job kelton, you did a big ride and survived. HOWEVER next year you are going on the octopus with me..

with max
with max
with dad and max on the ferris wheel

and of course here is my little one.