Watermelon Festival- Part II

The parade was planned for Saturday and what is a parade without throwing out candy? So to keep the Watermelon theme going I turned this red bowl into a Watermelon!

I also made some Watermelon shaped fans and personalized some of them too!

Now let me just say I knew it was going to be hot but, I just had not prepared myself for just how HOT it was going to be. Did I mention it was HOT? The parade started at 10am but we had to be there around 9:15am. I thought that it may not be that bad since it was in the morning, but I was WRONG!

Maddie with her proud Daddy!

While we were waiting for everyone to get lined up, Maddie spotted a couple of her friends.

She enjoyed playing around with them for a little while.

After waiting for everyone to get in correct order, it was finally time to start the parade!

Maddie's umbrella was made special by her Aunt La La and it

came in very handy in keeping that sunlight off!

Thank you, Laurie, for taking your time to make an extra one for Maddie!

My niece,Harley, was ready to roll!

Maddie really enjoyed throwing candy out to everyone at the parade.

After the parade was over, we headed over to the Ag Center to the Festival. Despite the heat, we all had a great time and really enjoyed our day!

Watermelon Festival 2009- Part I

Last weekend was the Watermelon Festival! So since Maddie is Toddler Miss Watermelon she had to participate in ALL the activities. So on Friday night, we went out to Pals Park to kick off the Watermelon Festivities! They introduced the Watermelon Queens on stage and then there was a concert.

Maddie and Emma waiting to go on stage!

(Emma is my good friend and hairstylist, Ashley's daughter)

My niece, Harley!

All the girls on stage!

It was HOT when we first got there but after the sun went down it cooled off a lot. We had so much fun eating boiled peanuts and talking with friends!

Josh and Maddie

Mikayla, my cousin Anita's daughter!

Emma and Maddie

Dune Buggy the Clown even stopped by to make some balloon animals for the girls!

They weren't real sure about him at first, but the warmed up to him!

It was very nice to watch all the little one's have play and have fun!

Would you just look at those at those pretty baby blues!!

My niece, Abbey

Maddie, Mikayla and their friend from church, Olivia!

Everyone had fun right up until it was time to go home!

Paint Polish Please

These are the words I hear everytime Maddie wants her nails painted. Now, I'm really not sure how she came up with calling it "Paint Polish" instead of finger nail polish but oh well, whatever works. Maddie has always enjoyed getting her nails painted, so a few months ago I started taking her up to a local nail salon to get her toe nails done. She LOVES it and everytime we drive past on our way to Wal-Mart she asks if we can stop and get her toe nails paint polished. Nine times out of ten I say no because otherwise we'd be going just about every other day because thats just how many times we unfortunately end up going to Wal-Mart. HA!

So in all efforts to get my girl ready for the Watermelon parade, I knew there had to be a stop at the paint polish place. I asked my niece, Harley, if she wanted to come and she was all about it! So last Friday, I took Maddie and Harley to get there nails all ready for the BIG parade and festival. Naturally since it was a Watermelon Festival and they are the Watermelon Queens, they decided on getting RED paint polish.

This was a first for Maddie to let them paint her fingernails, normally I do that at home because they do thick coats and she really will NOT keep her hands still long enough for them to dry good.

So of course I ended up touching her fingernails up at home b/c she messed a few up.

But Harley did AWESOME with her fingers and toes!!!

She was still for them to dry and everything!

I'm so glad that both the girls had fun!

Harley was so good and liked it so much that I think that she'd enjoy a full pedicure! Not that I want Maddie to grow up so fast but I really can't wait for us to be able to get our feet done together instead of me going on my lunch break and then taking her seperately because she's still not very good at waiting.

Harley, we had lots of fun with you and are so glad that you went with us! We'll definately do it again real soon!