Happy 275th Birthday!

Yesterday was our town's 275th birthday celebration. I am sure everyone was relieved to have such beautiful weather too! We decided to walk with our children in the 4H float for the parade. They did such an awesome job with the float. They had a sheep and several chickens in cages on the float and off the back a few bunnies in cages too!

The kids had several baskets of candy which they handed out to children along the parade route. Everyone had so much fun.

After we finished our march we headed back to the town common to enjoy the rest of the parade and grab something to eat.



I just loved sitting on the granite foundation watching everyone having so much fun. Girls ran around with flags and toy dogs on a leash and the boys were playing sword fights with inflatable swords. I was even tricked into touching a "shocking" pen. OUCH! Its times like this I really love this little town we live in.




On a different note I am so pleased to have my bird's nest wedding ring pillow featured today on the Etsy Wedding blog. Thank you so much!

Memorial Day Weekend

I have been enjoying the nicer weather and steadily working on gardening chores. It's difficult to keep up though with so much going on. We spent the day in Boston yesterday for the Earth Fest concerts. The girls enjoyed it but we were hot sitting on our blanket in the sun amongst the crowds of people. My oldest got a T-shirt autographed by Vega-4 and was so excited. We let her run up to the stage when then approached the audience too.




Today we enjoyed a beautiful day for our town Memorial Day Parade. Every year we look forward to this and the lovely ceremony they have down at the bridge along our river.




The girls still love it but of course they are happy to run into friends too. We ate chicken and hot dog barbecue down at the town common and listened to the first town band concert of the summer. Attendance was sparse but the girls enjoyed a good water fight and running around on the green.


It ended earlier than we expected so we decided to fit in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie tonight instead of tomorrow. None of us liked it as much as the first but it was entertaining if a little confusing too.