A Bazillion New Things

Here is a short and sweet overview of what has been keeping us busy this past little bit:

Cody drives the patrol car for the Veterans Day parade, the kids ride with him and throw out old halloween candy to the crowd. The only thing visible from Maycie are her patriotic hairbows in the barred windows of the backseat. I sit like a loser by myself and watch the parade trying to take video and pics at the same time.

P.S. No one parties like Page for Veterans day, school was cancelled, there were parades and canivals, it was awesome.

Riley has been in a running program for about 12 weeks and on Saturday completed a 5k in Flagstaff. Cody was her running buddy and they finished in about 35 minutes. Out of 184 girls they came in with the first 15-20 girls. Riley was so proud she wore her medal to church the next day and then to school on Monday.

While in Flagstaff we went to "Bearizona" (pretty sweet name). Here are the little darlings posing, this was about the only time that one of them wasnt throwing a fit.

Look at the look on Nolan's face, once that bottom lip sticks out you have about 5 seconds until all hell breaks loose.

Check out this obese bear, it was so unbelievably fat. I'm surprised it could even walk. We drove the loop around it about 5 times.....we were fascinated.

We take a ride on the Polar Express Nolan cries THE WHOLE TIME, sorry people in train car I. Maycie has her whole speech to Santa planned out, then panics when the big moment arrives and stands silent. I do my best to tell Santa what she wants. Then when we leave the room Maycie gets mad at me for not mentioning everything on her list. Apparently she will take one of everything at Toys R Us.

We also shopped til we dropped , the best part was when the air outside Old Navy smelled like dog food causing Maycie to gag uncontrollably, causing me to laugh uncontrollably.

After all that I am Tired.

Hot Air Balloon Regatta

This weekend was the Hot Air Balloon Regatta in Page. It was spectacular. 53 Balloons took off just below our house on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Sunday the wind took the balloons right over our house.
This Balloon crash landed on the next street over, we were almost late for church because we were running back and forth from front yard to back yard waiting for it to crash. It did not disappoint.

The girls watching the balloons on sunday morning.

Our drivew around town on Saturday. We unepectantly ended up at Denny's for breakfast in pajamas, with crazy hair and Maycie had no shoes. But isn't that what Denny's is for?

Saturday Morning.

On Saturday night they blocked off the street and put up the ballons in the street and lit up the fires to make the ballons glow in the dark. It was an awesome weekend.

Hopefully the video will work, if not I will fix it or post pics of the event.