September 5th - Matthews Alive

Saturday morning we got up and ready early to go to the Labor Day Parade and the Matthews Alive Festival which we go to every year and have grown to love. I wasn't sure how Amber would do with the Parade as it gets really really noisy and some of the emergency vehicle set off the sirens when they are a few feet away from you ... but she did well except for when one big truck came by and blew his horn, it sounded like one of those huge trucks on the road or even a train going by blowing his horn, it was very very loud and poor old Amber almost jumped out of her skin, that made her cry for a while but she eventually calmed down thankfully.

She sat on my lap almost the entire time and was totally happy checking everything out :-)



We met Tina, Lewis and the kids there, they watched the parade with us then we went our separate ways. Here is Jade and her very best friend Louis, they play so very well together, too cute.



This was pretty neat, this transformer guy came by and the kids stood by him for pics.



Then I went and had Jades face painted, this lady did such a nice job that I am seriously considering having a face painting party for Jades birthday, she does theme parties so we could do princes and princesses and the kids would all have their faces painted accordingly, I think that would be neat but we will see, Jade seems keen right now but we will see closer to the time.





Can you tell this one was requested by Dave ... yeah yeah ... this one is for you Gavin !!!



We took a few other parade pics but we figured you are all very tired of seeing the same old same old pics so we skipped them.

Here are two of the princess at home.





That evening Tina came over to babysit the girls so I could take Dave out for dinner for his birthday, we had a nice dinner and went to see the movie Hangover which was such a laugh, what a nice evening, we really need to do that more often. Thanks Tina, your turn next.

More to follow ...