Old Settlers Days 2013

The weekend of Mulvane's Old Settlers Days is always busy and this year was no exception!  We started out Friday morning with the turtle races.  Our turtle was small but scrappy!  We couldn't pick him up without almost getting bit!  He proved to be a winner and got 2nd place in his heat!

That evening, Katie had the Little Miss Pioneer Crowning Ceremony.  Seeing that we're not originally from Mulvane and her box wasn't in a business visited very often, we knew she wouldn't win, but it was still a fun experience and she loved wearing a pretty dress on stage!

 

After the ceremony, of course, we had to ride rides!

 

 

After plenty of riding, we took K2 and K3 home for bedtime and my mom stayed with them so E and I could take Kelton back down to ride some big kid rides, play some games and eat some junk food!

 

 

Bright and early the next morning was the road race.  I had planned to run the 4 mile, but was worried about finishing and then getting everyone ready and to their floats on time for the parade, so we all just did the 1 mile.  It's so fun doing these as a family!

 

 

 

Poor Konny got cut out of the first picture!  Apparently running the mile is the way to go!  Not a lot of adults run it, so I placed first and Eric got second in each of our age groups!  Haha!  Katie got second also.  Kelton ran the entire way but struggled because he lung function has been down. 

 

After the run we hurried home, had some breakfast and got ready for the parade!  Katie rode on the Little Miss Pioneer Float and Kelton walked with the Boy Scouts.  Konnor collected candy like it was his job!  Thankfully it wasn't too warm, only about 80!

 

After the parade, we went home for lunch, had some quick naps and then it was time for Katie's dance performance.  I snapped a lot of pics, but really wished I would have videoed it.  The girls were all so cute and Katie was quite the ham!

 

It's always fun, but long and tiring too!  Even after dinner that night, I canned a bunch of cinnamon pickles and then ran 8 miles.  Got to squeeze as much in on the weekends as possible!

Taylor Swift Concert

Way back in December, my friend Lisa and I were able to get fabulous tickets to take the girls to Taylor Swift this summer.  Lisa really gets most of the credit, she was poised and ready, snatching them up as soon as they went on sale.  Shortly after the tickets were purchased, we found some dresses that would be perfect for the girls to wear to the concert.

Then we waited.  And waited.  Eight whole months! 

Finally the big day arrived. 
So we treated the girls to a lunch date and manicures.

Then it was time to tell them the exciting news!

  They could not wait to get the dresses on!  Then the posing began.  They were hilarious!  

 

 

We got there early and took pictures with Taylor's trailer.  The girls wanted to pose by every sign of Taylor they could find.  There was also a bunch of her costumes on display from music videos which really fascinated them!

 

After making sure we saw absolutely everything, we found our seats.  They were so close to the stage!!   

 The first opening act was Casey James from America Idol.  So cool!  Katie liked dancing to his music.  

       Next up was Ed Sheeran.  

Then we got a little bored waiting for Taylor to come out.  

Then we saw Taylor's mom walk by and the girls got to meet her!

 

The girls were getting super anxious!  

Then is was finally time!!!   

   

 I do have to admit, it was a good show!  The girls absolutely loved it and we were so glad that we were able to take them!  It's so fun that Katie and Savannah are such great little friends, even though we don't have playdates nearly as often as we'd like. 

 

Thankfully, I was off the next day so we could sleep in.  I figured Miss Katie would be tired since she fell asleep in the car on the way home.  That's not Katie's style though, she was wide awake by 7am the next day!  I couldn't believe it when she didn't nap either.  Finally, she caved and put herself to bed at 5pm and slept though the night!  Poor tired girl!  I know I certainly wasn't feeling 22, definitely all of 32!