Strawberry Days

We wanted to go to the rodeo for Strawberry Days last night, since we have gone almost every year since we moved to Pleasant Grove. (Strawberry Days is our city's summer festival each year.) But Kaitlyn was just too young, and too attached to her 9pm bedtime. So we decided to go have dinner at the Purple Turtle (a well-known local burger joint with special Strawberry shakes and cones for the week) and wander the carnival. While we were eating, I picked Kaitlyn up while she was fussy and then started to eat my ice cream cone. But that little girl grabbed onto my hand and pulled with all her might, tongue out as far as it would go! She has certainly hit the "everything I can possibly get my hands on has to go in my mouth" stage. Too funny.

Then we went down to the carnival. I remember when I was a kid that we could never go on many rides because they were expensive. But nothing prepared me for $2 per trip down the big slide with Tyler. $2! And that was only if you bought the tickets in bulk. Oh well. I told Christopher we didn't have to do it, but he insisted that since Tyler LOVES slides, he really wanted to let Tyler go down. And so we did it anyway. I guess since we are abandoning the poor kid like an orphan for a week while we go to Cancun, he has earned some trips down a giant slide. Tyler laughed and laughed the entire way down each time (he went down 3 times)! I also took him through a little fun house thing before we decided to just sell off the remaining tickets.

Waiting for the boys to come down the slide.

We noticed that the city park was just behind the huge slide, and it had a regular park slide. So we took him down that. And he laughed just as hard as he did on the big one. Just goes to show us parents. Oh well, what is important is that he had fun, and got completely filthy throwing wood chips around. Hopefully he doesn't forget us while we are gone this time. When we got back from Maui last October, he just looked at me like I was an alien, and kept looking back at Grandma like "is this okay?"

Well, anyway, off we go! We are basically packed now, but I am still running a pacifier hunt all over the house. We should have about 6, and yet somehow I only have 3. Where do those things go? See you on the flip side! I should have lots to say next Friday when I finally see the internet again.