Three Springs Carnival

This past weekend was the area renowned Three Springs Carnival. We travelled to Kris's hometown to visit with family their and attend the carnival. We had a great time overall. The trip out there was pretty uneventful and Ryan did pretty good for the ride. We give big thanks to my friend Pam who lent me her DVD player so Ryan could watch Elmo in the car - it was wonderful. Saturday, we went to the fire company's chicken barbeque and watched Kris's cousins Doug and Jeff in the Oreo contest (neither won - but at least Doug beat the girl). After naps, we went to the carnival where Kris and Ryan got wrist bands to ride all the rides while I either took pictures or helped sell tickets. We enjoyed the wonderful music and got to visit with a lot of family. Unfortunately, Ryan was not happy about being up past bedtime and having to see all these people he didn't know which caused him to be very clingy to me (and only me) which has led to some hopefully short term pregnancy problems (see the baby website for more info if you want).

Sunday we attended the community church service, had turkey dinner lunch and visited with Kris's grandmother. For the first time, Ryan actually enjoyed playing with her and was pretty mindful of all the breakable stuff. After naps, we visited with Kris's mom. We had dinner with Kevin, Amy and Katelyn (Diane had to watch the motel, so she couldn't join us). But we got to visit with her both before and after. Thanks to her for all the new toys and books that kept Ryan busy on the way home on Monday. When we returned to the farm, we realized there was no power. While everyone else gathered at Kris's Aunt Sharon's house, we managed to get the old lanterns out. We put batteries in Ryan's sound machine and a lantern as a night light in his room and he was out. Kris and I played Crazy 8's until I was ready for bed. The power finally came back on around 6 so at least we were all up in time for the Memorial Day service. After that, we had packed up, had lunch at Aunt Lucy's and were on our way.

We had a great time and hope to see everyone again soon!

Kristin