Rogers Fest

We headed up to Rogers City last weekend for the yearly festival.  There were rides, crafts, air shows, car shows, beautiful beaches, quarries, hobo roasts, beer tents and parades.

I was a tad bit surprised that Nolee wanted to do the dinosaur ride but she showed no fear.

Well until the ride started...then she did this the ENTIRE time.  She never cried though and we were shouting encouragement from the side and telling her how good she was doing.

After the ride was over she was all "Oh that - that was easy.  Let's do it AGAIN!".

We could only do about 4 rides before the stifling heat drove us to the beach.  It was around 95 without the humidity so the beach was the perfect place to go take in the air show.

Lake Huron was actually warm for once too.  The girl had a blast in the waves and up on the beach.  Scott and I sat in awe watching the blue angels air show (I have never been to an air show before) - so very cool!

Some of us got sand in places that don't usually see the light of day.

And all of us definitely had a great time :).

Tubular Dude!

The girls had their first tubing experience the other weekend and absolutely loved it!

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The Big Party

Every year we have all the fam-dam-ily over for birthday parties.  There's kids running around, singing, catching up, yummy food and smiles all around.  We did a hot dog bar this year and it was so good - I lost count of how many different ones I tried - lets just say I was beyond uncomfortably full and that was before I stuffed in some cupcakes :).

Nolee made a special request to hold her cousin Grayden - she absolutely loves babies

Here's the birthday girl blowing out her cupcake...she made sure she had the one with the most sprinkles.

Then she volunteered to hand out cupcakes to everyone else first before she even took a bite of hers.

Of course when that was all said and done she was ALL about her cupcake.

And Logan followed suit.

Nolee is our neat eater and took teeny tiny bites making sure she didn't get any on herself.

Here's Mr. Blake - he is always so bright eyed and happy.

Lilly was determined to make birthday hats for all the guests.  All.By.Herself  She did a pretty good job with just a few pipe cleaners and her imagination.

After presents it was time to pelt the birthday girl with water balloons!

And if you aren't old enough for water balloon fights...we put diapers on your head.

Don't worry Grayden I'll totally save this picture for your graduation ;).

Then it was POOL time!

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Lilly Mae!!