Strawberry Festival 2009

This year was Lebanon's 100th year of the infamous Strawberry Festival where they make and serve the worlds largest strawberry shortcake! We went with the Kessler family to the parade in the morning, down to the fair in the evening and ended with the fireworks that night. Since it was also the same day as the state's annual free fishing day with the fishing derby up at Green Peter, we decided to take all 7 kids fishing in-between the festivities.......HA, we'll never do that again! With 4 adults, 3 older kids needing help putting bait on, casting, etc, and 4 younger kids that we were trying to keep out of the lake......it was an interesting experience to say the least! The fireworks were pretty good and we had a very full but fun day!

I've been waiting to blog because I got behind and I wanted to catch up first....but since it's been almost 1/2 a year since my last blog, I thought I'd just start with right now and try to keep up from here on out. So for Cydney's 4th Birthday (I can't believe she is 4 already!!!!) we had a rollerskating party. She loves rollerskating even though she hasn't quite mastered it yet, and really wanted to have her party there! We had a great group with Grandpa Forrest and Grandma Rena, my brother Daniel with Kristen and their little girl (my neice) Keeley; Joel's brother Chris, Holly, Ally, and Isabella (our other neices); Keith and Jamie Kessler and their 4 kids: Mason, Luke, Derek, and Laci; Ben and Shauna Potter and their 3 kids: Olivia, Rhette, and Zoe (Cydney's BFF); and my friend Tiffany. We had so much fun skating like the old days and we got a great workout too! :) Thanks for coming everyone and Cydney had a wonderful birthday!!!!