Strawberry Days

Strawberry Days is one of my favorite times of the year. We do it all!! Thursday night we went to the rodeo which was a ton of fun. Lane couldn't come he was working but I really wanted to take Brookie because I felt like she was old enough and would enjoy it.
Here she is with her hand on her heart while the national anthem was being sang.

Erin and Travis came.
Brookie and Grandma Twiggs


Friday I took the day off work and we went to the Carnival. Brookie was dying to go and we kept telling her tomorrow we would take her. The weather was terrible pretty much all weekend. Raining, which it is alwasy so hot for Strawberry Days so it was hard to go to the carnival in the rain. But we finally took her and she loved it. She went on the rides by herself which I didn't think she would.

I took her down the slide which I was scarred to go down so of course she was. It went so fast I didn't think I was going to stop at the bottom!!








And last but now least Saturday was the parade which is rained on and off. Once again, Lane couldn't come he worked the night before at the hospital so he was at home sleeping. Brooklyn loved it, all the fire engines and the policeman. She saw the clowns from the rodeo and all the horses. Every thing was "Hey Mom!! Look!"


Her favorite thing was waving to the "princess" or the pageant royalty. She said they had pretty dresses and would get upset if they didn't make eye contact with her and wave at her.

And we of course got strawberries 'n' cream, amazing!!!

We also got to spend a little bit of time with our daddy on Father's Day. He worked overnight on Saturday so he came home and slept for a couple hours before I jolted out of bed at 10:30 freaking out because we had to be to church at 11 am and Brookie wasn't even up yet. Apparently the weekend had worn her out, going to bed late and not having a naps caused her to sleep in as well as me. It was great to sleep in but then I was running around like mad trying to get to church on time. Lane is an amazing father, he is working so hard for our family. He works 7 days a week, never has a night off. We rarely see eachother but our marriage and love for eachother and Brookie is what's holding us together!