For our family, summer would not be summer,

without a trip to our towns celebration of Strawberry Days.

Christopher dreams of their strawberries and cream all year round.

Looks like it might be genetic.

Elliot is still to small to dine on this delicacy, and actually he spent most of the night like this,

Back to the berries, they are delicious, and the way we usually start our adventures every year.

And then we go on a couple of the carnival rides. This year the weather was iffy, it had been raining a majority of that day, and we weren’t sure if the rides were going to be open or not…but we were surprised to find out that not only were they open, the tickets were only .50 cents a piece AND the rides were 1/2 off too. So instead of being the usual 2 tickets, they were 1 ticket! Yahoo! I love a good deal at the carnival.

Here is Tru and Toph discussing rides. I must admit, I was surprised at our kids choice of rides…. We did the ‘crazy fun climbing house thing’ once,

and then the rest of our tickets were used on the big yellow slide.

Tucker saw our neighbor and friend there, and they went down together like this, cute eh?

Toph and I even got in on the action.
And this one might just be one of my new favorite pics. Look at everyones faces.

We finished up just as the pre-rodeo crowd were coming, and we felt a few raindrops begin to fall. Near the end, Elliot woke up and he enjoyed people watching at the carnival too, (I am making a funny face, as I was eating a doughnut)

In case you haven’t heard me mention it before, I love being able to do fun things with my children, and husband,

and I do love living in a place where it is easy to do!