Carnival

Firstly, I have to apologize for the ridiculousness of how seldom I've been updating the blog recently. I'd give lots of excuses about being busy, traveling, being sick, etc., but the bottom line is I'm just quite far behind but committed to catch up!

This past Friday was the carnival at Anna and Kate's school. Oh my did they have fun!

Seriously--is there anything better than a snow cone on a hot July day??

(BTW, Kate, you better count your lucky stars for being the second-born on days like this. At this age, Anna was still on a pure organic, pure healthy diet. I think giving her a snowcone would have made me pass out. Your getting to reap the rewards of a more laid-back Mommy...:-))

A snowcone AND spray-painted hair? One happy girl...

Getting to ride the "ferris wheel" with her best bud/future husband, Owen...

This may have been Anna and Owen's official "first real date". In a moment of potentially poor judgement, we loaded the two of them on the train and sent them on their way. Unchaperoned. I think between Owen drumming his fingers and the conspiring look on Anna's face, they weren't even waiting til we were out of view before they started planning some trouble...