two days at the carnival

lemonade days.

one of our favorite things about spring.

it is the small carnival that comes through our town yearly and we absolutely love going to.

this year the weekday experience far outweighed our weekend experience. we took the girls on wed night and it was not busy at all. so there were no lines for the rides, games, or food. (we mainly go to the carnival for the food!) that is the way we prefer a carnival... all fun with no lines. we went again on sunday afternoon and what a crazy scene that was. the lines for everything were ridiculously long. for the same amount of money, the girls rode half the amount of rides. i hope to go next year two weekdays and skip the weekend madness all together.

side note- poor hadley tried a funnel cake, which she seemed to enjoy. what's not to love about the powdered sugar. however, the combination of funnel cake and carousel did not agree with her. 10 minutes later when we got home, poor girl threw it all up. lesson learned.

hads on the carousel, which i might add was a little too fast

 lb on said scary, speedy carousel

 italian ices- yummy

 scary kids mini roller coaster (do you see a theme here).

 hads riding next to me on these little race 

cars that just go round and round. pretty sure 

they cause whiplash. all part of the fun, right

muscle girl winning a prize

i think she prefers the games to the rides 

day two:

caroline was sweet to ride this with hadley

as for whatever reason, parents couldn't ride

 lb on the spyder, which goes up and around.

hello dizzy

can't wait for next year already!

and for fun, a quick flashback to last years carnival

friday night with a carnie

so once a year our little town hosts a very fun (and a bit odd) carnival. we look forward to it every year. each year is more fun than the year before. sweet cheeks gets taller and taller, the carnie workers get crazier and crazier, and the rides get louder and louder. all of which makes for a fun family time. we were there both friday and saturday night. thankfully the husband was willing to ride most of the rides with sweet cheeks. they are so much more adventurous than me ( most people are- who am i kidding!). specifically, i am so happy to not have had to ride the ferris wheel. oh how i hate heights. especially when the heights involve a scary, rusty, squeaky traveling ride! no thanks.

we went to the carnival friday night with two sets of friends of ours. i think sweet cheeks also enjoyed having the kids to ride with. i love that she has so many buddies. they are always so sweet to watch together.


here are the kids on the first ride of the night. it was a huge teddy bear that spins around and around. how cute are the 5 of them all together in there.

this is my action shot of sweet cheeks on this spinning swing ride. i even rode it with her. made me a bit nauseous. thankfully we had dinner after this ride, not before.
sweet cheeks and her friend, rebecca, dancing. there is always time for busting moves at the carnival.
licking her sticky cotton candy fingers.
bumper cars. sweet cheeks is a crazy driver. pretty much all of the 5 year old drivers were.
sweet picture despite the poor quality. we stayed out friday night till 10:30pm! they probably could have gone longer!
best friends
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i have mentioned it a time or two how sweet cheeks tries to dress like me. she is always putting on my glasses. so the other day on one of our many weekend trips to claire's, i saw these fake glasses. sweet cheeks hasn't taken them off since. she is adorable in them. just look at her!

when did she turn fiveteen???