Weeked of craziness-floors, frolic and BBQ

Hard wood floor weekend! THANKs Don for coming down to help. We really appreciate it! One more step closer to having our new space! While Don and Pat were hard at work, the boys found fun things to do... It started as a small water fight with super soakers and the hose...then the sky opened up and started to pour! Oddly, the hose was still running. What can entertain boys more then big puddles and dirt. I should have given them a bar of soap! It was the Mount Horeb Frolic, and fortunatley I was able to distract the boys from going to the carnival portion of the weekend (where you spent 25$ for 3 carnival rides) but we could not miss the parade. Jamison is practicing his "smile and wave". That is how you get the attention of the parade people and get good candy! Peter would not practice, but pulled out the cuteness for the real thing. The parade finale, as always, was the firetrucks.....all shiney. They even brought one of the older models out! This one is actually red, different from the MountHoreb black. Then in the afternoon was the "After School BBQ" for Miss Mathys' and Miss Casper's Kindergarten class, hosted by US! We love a good party! One mom brought a snowcone machine! What a fantastic idea! and a good investment! They were a HIT! Occasionaly you would find what appeared to be clown vomit in the grass....but is was just a snow cone casualty. Soccer, football, baseball, sandbox and a whole lot of fun! Then a water balloon toss. After three rounds of the toss....we had a full-on waterballoon fight! There were rules....you got three chances....no throwing in the face or grown-up with a camera. Luckily I had a camera. Lets examine this picture..... Poor Alex got on in the face (below) Peter is pretty excited about getting someone and Porter has his arm engaged in somone off camera. I think Miss Mathys got hit once...not bad. I would think she would have been hit a few more times. The cutest was when Garret's little brother (1yo) broke on in his hands and started to cry....i didnt mean to laugh at him, but when his mom was on the grass laughing I felt much better. And we finally said "goodbye" to Murphy, our boat. When we moved here we told ourselves that if we dont use it in two years that we should sell it. Well, it has been three years, and we still have not use it. We just have too many other things that we want to do, so it is time to go. In 4 hours (without a post on CL) it sold. MAN! we can sell anything in our front yard! Goodbye to our pre-kid toy. Now Pat can focus on the zip line that he and the neighbor are planning on making.