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Jimmy this is for you. We had a nasty storm blow in pretty fast last week. It sent me and the girls to the basement. It was real exciting! I thought about how brother James always gets excited about a good storm coming in! Sorry the video doesn’t really do it justice.
Our town celebrated its 125th anniversary last weekend. It was a busy and fun filled 3 days for everybody. We estimated that we had about 4000 people come!
Here you’re likely to meet nice folk like the Schwedhelms!
I only went for the food; free ice cream cones at the library, snow cones, kettle corn, funnel cakes, burgers, pork on a stick and even delicious Mexican( I had that twice)!
Our neighbors really helped me out with girls so we could get around to all the events. Phil was very busy with different fundraisers so we didn’t see much of him.
He was able to get away for Lily’s first pony ride! She was nervous at first but quickly decided she really liked riding a pony.
She didn’t like having to say goodbye to her new buddy “Token”.
Here’s the beard and mustache competition I had to watch. There were some very nice handlebar mustaches!
Clara just wondered when we’d be having another funnel cake.
“Seriously. Another funnel cake anyone?”
Lily kept cool with Mr. Vernon.
The girls were asked to model in the vintage style show. The models wore wedding and confirmation dresses from the 1900s through 2007. Clara wore a baptism dress from 1953. I had one of the models walk her down the aisle.
Lily wore a flower girl’s dress from 2004. Phil even got in on the catwalk action sporting the suit he was married in. (And I must say he looked good!) He carried Lily who debuted asleep on Phil’s shoulder. She was a still a little embarrassed about this when we took this picture and Clara still thought it was hi-larious!
After the style show we appeared in our parade. Phil’s fishing boat was all gussied up for the occasion and pulled by a 1940-something Farmall tractor….
that Lily drove…
well wished she’d driven at least.
She had to sit in the boat with us and look really cute in her life vest.
