Carnival

Brian's school had a carnival night as a fundraiser and Van could not have been more excited about it:)  It was on Friday evening so he had to wait all day for it but I'm pretty sure he considered it worth the wait.  He two punch cards with 20 punches each and the most anything cost was 4 punches (most were 1 or 2) so we basically didn't tell him no all night and he was in heaven!

This picture is ridiculous of Brielle and I but is shows Brian's school and the beautiful mountains in the background.

Brian thought it was necessary to take a picture of me taking a picture of Van's first experience with cotton candy.

This sassy little girl had fun too. This picture comes with a funny story.  She had already had a lollipop earlier in the night but near the end she saw a big jar of them on a table and very cutely used sign language to asked for one.  We said no and she LOST. IT.  Flopping on the ground, crocodile tear, bloodcurdling screaming lost it.  I picked her up and we were working toward finding something to distract her when a nice lady from the table with the jar came up and gave her and Van each a shiny new lollipop!  She said she bought them for them because she couldn't stand to see such a cute girl cry! Brielle gave the lady a huge smile and went to town on her newly acquired treat.  Brielle(plus tantrum/cuteness)-1, parents-0.  Well played Brielle, well played:)