Roy Days

Saturday we were able to go to Roy and made it just in time for the parade. Going who knows how fast since the speedometer in the nissan is broken, it only took a half an hour to get from Magna to Roy. Yay, my sister was there early so she had a spot right at the curb. During the parade there were a few people on horseback and they came right up to us and let the girls pet them. All that Alona could reach since I could not lift her was the horse's mouth, Abbi was able to pet it up on the mane. There were a few floats that came by that had dance routines or music. Abbi would start dancing to those and get really close to the floats, Alona would join in once seeing Abbi. The ones that had dance routines Abbi would start clapping and then a couple of times I had to chase her down because she would start following the floats clapping. We didn't bring any grocery bags so when they would pick up candy they would put it on the blanket that we brought or Abbi would give it to me. One lady came by and put a cute little bear into Abbi's hand, she didn't know what to think. She just stood there starring at it in amazement. My nephew was able to get a frisbee the first time that one got thrown out. After that Alona really wanted one, they got thrown out to the crowd once again and did not make it by us...Alona even ran up to the float and they did not thrown one her way. She came back crying and hysterical because she wanted a frisbee and they wouldn't give one to her.

Afterwards we went to the carnival, we weren't able to go on any of the rides for lack of cash. But there were a lot of booths that were able to look at and with some activities. The fire-fighters had a smoke house that Alona was able to go in and they were given out what it looked like really old stuffed animals and of course Alona had to have one. They gave her some coloring books about fire safety. Roy water gave out coloring books and crayons, and one booth gave Alona a notebook after she spun for it, and when Abbi spun the spokes and landed on glue they gave her some crayons (thinking that glue wasn't good for a one year old)! I may not believe all of what other religions offer, but it was nice that they were there supporting the community. They gave out free bottles of water, that was really needed. They did free face paintings for the girls and gave out popsicles. Alona chose to have a heart with wings and Abbi had a sun.
Their aunt Crystal got them both little toys, I have found that the noise that the toys make are obnoxious when their dad gets ahold of them. The toy also blows bubbles and is a whistle. Alona got Nemo on hers and Abbi got a duck. We went back and visited with Crystal at her house for a little while and then I dropped Alona off with Grandma and Grandpa at the Layton Park so that I could go and get Paul and enjoy the rest of the day/night with him. I took Abbi with me hoping that she would take a nap on the way home. Well of course she didn't take much of a nap, but was really good the whole time.
We went back to Layton Park and were able to have dinner with Val, Ruth and their ward. Alona must have had a lot of fun, when we got there Alona was at the park playing and had her own little setup under a tree...a chair, toys the whole works. I think that in the third trimester my stomache is starting to shrink. It seems like I barely at and I was stuffed. It was kinda amusing to watch, for lunch Abbi ate her hot dof real and Alona wouldn't touch her food. And then for dinner, Alona ate her food really good and Abbi wouldn't touch hers not even the chocolate that I tried to offer her.
We all had fun swimming. From the moment that Abbi got into the pool she was shivering and she did not want to be removed from the water. Alona and Abbi both had fun being carried around by their dad and grandpa. And enjoyed being thrown in the air. They both had to have a towel when getting into the car to go home, Alona even took the towel off of her grandpa's back so that she could have one.