Fiesta Days Parade

Yesterday was our town's Fiesta Days Parade. 

Annalise's middle school marched in the parade.  They did such a good job, especially considering that for half the band this was their first time marching! 

These were taken at the end of the parade.  You can see how tired Annalise's arms were getting.  She told us the marching wasn't hard, what was hard was keeping her arms up the entire length of the parade.  By the end of the parade she was wishing she was playing an instrument like the clarinet.  Even so, she did such a good job! 

Afterwards she got to hang out with her friends at the carnival.  Poor Robyn, we spent some time there but she wasn't able to go on a lot of the rides because of her cast.  It's going to be a long six weeks until she gets her cast off.

Look What I Did

This is what I did on Tuesday night: 

fall off razor scooter = hairline fracture on her right arm = 3 hours at the ER. 

Boy are we tired!

Middle School Track Meet

Last week was Annalise's first middle school track meet.  She wanted to participate in the long jump but you had to try out for that and she was sick when that happened.  So, she had to run in the longer distance events.  At this meet she only ran one event because her knee was hurting so she ran the one mile.  She came in 5th out of 12 runners (I think).  I didn't get to see the event.  It was a crazy day of crisscrossing across town so when her event did actually happen I was at Robyn's piano lessons on the other side of town.  Definitely frustrating but there's one more track meet this week and hopefully this time I will get to see her run!

(A friend took these pictures for me!)

Calling All Participants

Well it's that time of year again -- fair time.  Every year I enter projects in the May Fair and the County Fair.  I'm usually quite excited about what I'm entering but this year was a little different.  I didn't enter in any knitting.  I was knitting a sweater that I thought would be a good entry but after ripping out one section several times I finally just decided to rip out the whole sweater.  I'll just have to use the yarn on another project. 

So I decided to enter the dress I made for Annalise for Christmas.

I was excited about the USA map.  My first attempt I had some problems with the iron which resulted in scorch marks so I made another one because I like things to (at least) appear perfect.  I was pleased with the first place but I when I saw the picture hanging I just wanted to put up my hand so I could smooth out the bubbles in the fabric.  I guess that will have to wait until I can take it home!

Annalise declined in participating (she said no!) but Robyn was excited to enter.  This was a picture she took while we were hiking in the hills by our house.

I found a project on Pinterest and thought this would be perfect for Robyn to do.  We had fun picking out the different shades of red out of magazines.



We at least have a couple months until the county fair.  Now we just need to decide if we will enter the same projects or something different. 

Run, Run as Fast as You Can

Every spring we make time for our annual local race which benefits the schools.  This year only Jeff and Robyn ran it.  Jeff ran the 10K and Robyn ran the 1/2 mile kids race.  Annalise didn't have anyone to do the 5K with so she refused to run, and since I don't run I didn't race either.  So Annalise and I came to cheer for Robyn.

So proud of her....she ran the entire time.  When Annalise ran it the first time she didn't do so well.  She ran into a soccer friend and they ended up talking the entire race.  Drove Jeff crazy!  :)