great weekend!

We had an awesome weekend!

On Friday all the moms went to the zoo. We had so much fun. Here are a few pictures of the kids and their friends...




Erin, Hannah, Isa, Luke, Lydia, Natalie
Haley, Bradley & Elaina


The girls.
We bought all the girls matching pants!




Now here is the ENITRE group. the babies are
Alaina, Lola & Graham. Elijah is also in this one, he did not want to get
in the other one.




These are my wonderful children... they could only hold still for so long.
If you can just imagine Haley’s face when she told Alex why she could only sit for
a little while, "well you see there are these pointy things on the alligators back and they kinda bump on me..." that’s her reason for crying here.



THE RODEO

Then on Saturday or neighbors the DiIulios took us to the local Rodeo. It was awesome! We went in the morning to scope everything out. We had a chance to watch the hog judging... interesting, and we also saw all the other animals that were being judged. Haley was excited to get to see a pig like "charlottes web" but when we went to the pigs she started to gag b/c of the smell, she is so like me. Afterwards we stayed for the parade. It was mostly horses, local school bands and beauty queens (or to Haley, princesses) but there was this funny group of older people all dressed in kitchen attire. It was too cute.





After going home for naps we returned and started with the fair. They had some great rides. The Faulkner's met us there and we all rode rides together. Haley and Graham even rode a few. Graham loved all the rides and Haley was kinda a weenie and only wanted ones that didn't leave the ground. Anyway.




Then it was time for the rodeo. If you have never been to one-GO! It was great. We saw all kinds of things. The kids loved it too! We saw bucking horses and bulls, cowboys jumping off their horses onto baby bulls, roping, barrel racing, the whole nine yards. It was so dark that most of the pics did not turn out but watch the video. This is just one of a billion we saw!

and last but not least, the stars of the show!