Nataly Loves a Parade!

Last weekend we went out to Howard Lake for a parade. Annalisa's boyfriend lives there and he has a big party for everyone to watch the parade go right by his house. It was great.

A parade in a small town is great. It is just like you remember it as a kid. Firetrucks, beauty queens, high school bands, a beer tent and face painting. There aren't any floats sponsored by Target or Walmart and they still throw candy. And lots of it! All of the floats were local businesses and they were essentially a truck pulling a trailer.

Nataly sat on the curb with her bag open and yelled to the people as they drove by. She yelled "More Candy" and the people delivered. They were throwing hand fulls of candy towards her bag. It was like Halloween for her.

Nataly got a puppy dog painted on her face.She picked it. Next she got a temporary tattoo of Hello Kitty (aka poppy Cat). We havent been able to wash her arm all week. She wont let us, she's afraid it will wash off.

 Beauty queens. On the curb, not in the car.

 Lucy wasn't that into it. We just hung out on the blanket and she watched the parade every once in a while. 

No big deal to her.

Flying a Kite

When it's not raining, it's been pretty windy lately. So Alisha had the brilliant idea of taking Nataly and Lucy to fly kites. I cant even remember the last time I flew a kite. I could have been Nataly's age. So we headed up to the school with the huge soccer field and gave it a shot. There was nothing to it. Everyone got to try their hand at flying the kite. Even Lucy held onto the string by herself and got to give it a try.

Day trip to Duluth

It is way too much work to take the kids to spend a night at the hotel right now. So we ended up doing a day trip up to Duluth. We brought some DVD's to keep Nataly entertained and we were on our way. We left at around 8am and got back home at 8pm. It was a fun trip. The weather was less than ideal, but it didn't slow us down. We still got to do everything we wanted to do. We had lunch at Clydes Ironworks, walked around Canal Park and had a burrito at Burrito Union.

I'm not sure what it is about Duluth, but that city is very relaxing to me. If the winters weren't so long and it had some better coffee shops, it would be prefect.

Lucy was there too, but for some reason she wasn't in these pics.

Smile Lucy!!

I know it's a little late, but we took 6 month pictures of Lucy last weekend. She's probably closer to 7 months old than 6.  She was a great sport. She tried to roll away a few times and cried when she dropped her toy, but she did great. As of right now, she is the only Wing that likes having her picture taken. 

Chillin in the back yard

Nataly's drinking apple juice and I'm not.

Long Lost Easter Photos

I was digging through the camera and found a bunch of pictures from Easter in Tulsa this year. So many people and so many cameras, pictures are bound to get lost.

 Coloring Easter eggs as a group. You will notice that they all had their own eggs, bowls for coloring and space on the island. Not much sharing going on there.

Random pictures

I've had these pictures on my phone for a while and have meant to post them. They are from the past couple of months and are not in any particular order.

 Check out those legs!

 I had to run to a customers restaurant to fix something last weekend. I brought Nataly because she likes the restaurant and knew there would be treats involved. She wasn't disappointed. This is a picture of the aftermath of her devouring part of a chocolate chip cookie.

 Nataly had a birthday party a few weeks ago and everyone got to take a swing at the pinata. Here she is in action. It looks like a harder swing than it actually was. I think she made contact, but she didnt break it.

All of the girls that are old enough swinging on the swingset and the adults hanging around drinking beer. Looks good to me.