First Friday

One of our favorite summer activities to do as a family is to go to First Friday. The first friday of the month during the summer there is a fun little street fair in the Fountains. The kids have always loved going to it, so we usually go at least a couple of times during the summer. We deiced to go to the first one of the season, and there is a yummy place to eat there so we thought we would have dinner and then stay for the activities. They always have some Disney princesses come too and this time it was Elsa and Anna. Janie was really excited, but once we arrived and saw how much busier it was because of that and saw the line that was about 300 yards long. We decided that we just couldn't do it. So we went and explored some of the other stuff that was going on.

Miss Love wasn't too excited about the pickle. So far Russy is the only one that really likes dill pickles like his Dad.

the kids thougth it was pretty cool to sit in the back of the police car.

Once Russy saw the fire engine he wanted nothing to do with the ploice car anymore. He is all about the fire engines.

Annie did pretty good overall. She is at a really difficult stage right now when we go out places. She is so busy and doesn't want to be held and just wants to get into things and climb on things that she shouldn't and then screams bloody murder when we dont let her. But she is also at one of the cutest stages too. I guess thats why Heavenly Father makes babies so cute, to even out the difficulty.

Russy was really excited about his ninja hat and his sword that he got. I was really worried because it is only a matter of time before those things pop and I was worried how he would react. We had a few close calls where he feel into some bushes and it didnt pop so I thought we were good, but literally 10 feet before we got to the car he fell and poppped his sword. It was so funny becuase he was totally freaking out about it. The whole way home he just kept crying "I popped my sword!" He kept saying it over and over and over again. It is not an exageration to say that he said it 40-50 times on the way home. It started to become really funny because of the way he was saying it. First he was so angry, then he was sad. And then by the end the way he would say it was like he was just resigned to the fact that he popped his sword. It really was something we will always remember about Russy and his popping his sword.