Saturday was an early day. We had to be up bright and early, fed dressed and out the door to start driving up the canyon to pick up Alona by 8:30. So I was all ready and out the door by 8:00 and get there at 8:37. I thought that I was seven minutes late... Then I ran in to a line of cars waiting to pick up their campers, at least 1/2 mile long, and grew longer the 20 minutes that we all sat there waiting for them to open the gate.
It was so sweet to see Alona again! She had a fabulous time riding horses, camping and with all the other activities. On Friday she even lost a tooth, she Really lost it. It fell in to the floor boards of her tent. She was very sad that the tooth fairy didn't even visit at camp, I suggested that she write the fairy a note now that she was home. The sleeping bag that she was sent with also ended up lost as well, hopefully that turns up. It is so fun to see my oldest with her BIG front tooth coming in, she is growing up!
With pick up time being at 8:30, I figured that we would be back in time to go to the Children's parade for the freedom festival two blocks over. It was 9:50 by the time we left and I thought for sure that we wouldn't make it. But in fact running with all four kids in the stroller I actually made it with 15 minutes to spare.
It was so sweet to see Alona again! She had a fabulous time riding horses, camping and with all the other activities. On Friday she even lost a tooth, she Really lost it. It fell in to the floor boards of her tent. She was very sad that the tooth fairy didn't even visit at camp, I suggested that she write the fairy a note now that she was home. The sleeping bag that she was sent with also ended up lost as well, hopefully that turns up. It is so fun to see my oldest with her BIG front tooth coming in, she is growing up!
With pick up time being at 8:30, I figured that we would be back in time to go to the Children's parade for the freedom festival two blocks over. It was 9:50 by the time we left and I thought for sure that we wouldn't make it. But in fact running with all four kids in the stroller I actually made it with 15 minutes to spare.
There was a really cute float with a bunch of toddlers riding rocking horses,
pulling a wagon of infants :)
There was a preschool there that had a banner, bunch of balloons
and a teacher that had painted all of the kids faces.
My brave little girls went over and asked if they could get theirs done too
Alona got a flag, she also got a pin and they were all in the parade
thats when she mentioned, "Mom its like your celebrating me coming home!"
Abbi had cute red and blue flowers
the children that were on bikes in front of us were throwing candy
and then at the end of the parade, the library had an awesome event
they handed out popsicles to EVERYONE!
Had a make and take activity, Super Why's super writer!
Pictures with Super Why (a cartoon character on a local station)
and Pictures with Princess "P"
They also had cartoons to watch, games to play, stickers, tattoos and other fun awesome things for the children. After our long walk in the parade we walked the parade route back and then walked further up to our church and had lunch at the activity there. It was a great day!
pulling a wagon of infants :)
There was a preschool there that had a banner, bunch of balloons
and a teacher that had painted all of the kids faces.
My brave little girls went over and asked if they could get theirs done too
Alona got a flag, she also got a pin and they were all in the parade
thats when she mentioned, "Mom its like your celebrating me coming home!"
Abbi had cute red and blue flowers
the children that were on bikes in front of us were throwing candy
and then at the end of the parade, the library had an awesome event
they handed out popsicles to EVERYONE!
Had a make and take activity, Super Why's super writer!
Pictures with Super Why (a cartoon character on a local station)
and Pictures with Princess "P"
2 comments:
Oh man! A lost tooth and no Tooth Fairy? Where is the fairness in a child's life? :)
Hopefully the letter to the Tooth Fairy will make things right.
Glad she returned home safely.
Loved the camp names of Alona and her friends and tent mates, too!
That's so cute - It's like we're celebrating me coming home! That's exactly what you were doing! :)
Wish I would have remembered about the parade / gotten your message! DANG IT!
Glad you had fun! Thanks for the books / stickers! :)
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