{Noah - 2008 Blue Bonnets}

Sunny
Seventy degrees
Saturday/Sunday

This is the recipe for weekend *perfection*

I have all these blog posts swirling around in my head and was holding out until I finished my adoption/attachment updates but that’s silly. I have them mostly done but every time I edit them, I add more and more and now I’ll have to divide them into even more separate posts. Until then, I’m going to post with random other things of various depth. Today’s post - not so deep!

Saturday morning we went to the big Earth Day festival here which is one of the first things we attended when we moved here last year. It was way better this year thanks to perfect weather (last year it was FREEZING!). We climbed the rock wall (we meaning my kids, not me!), made some crafts (of course), talked to the snake people (of course) and this year we bought some recycled crafts that are really awesome. Teegan is now sporting the coolest Orange Drink wallet EVER! Now I have to figure out how to make them!!! I love the Earth Day festival.

Then we went to the public premier of a large fountain and if there is one thing our community does well it is a public premier. We had the best time watching these guys on stilts who were totally in character:

Then there were the mimes which pretty much freak us out. There was great entertainment, the fountains were lit and exploded to the beat of the music. The kids even had their caricatures made (for free!) which was totally hilarious.

I wonder how long you have to live somewhere before the allure begins to wear off? I just love my community. I’m also just beginning to get to the point that when we go places, we see people we recognize. That has never really happened anywhere else we have lived - no one left their houses and there was just a general rush to get back home and not linger and socialize. Not so, here! I love that there is so much to do, every weekend, for our whole family. There was also a huge art fair and a concert by the lake this weekend but we were beat from the two events we attended. I just love having options right down the street. Add in the options downtown and in adjoining cities and there is never a good excuse to stay home!

Sunday we spent the day catching up on housework and just hanging out. The big kids were gone pretty much all day with friends and Noah swam (brrrr). Then we grilled for dinner. Yum.

Having spent a year here now I have this impending sense of doom: summer (aka too hot to function) will be here *anysecondnow* so we sort of seize the day every day to enjoy the weather while it lasts.

{Addy and her Dalty}

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