little bit of everything

Today we went to the Procession of the Species parade for Arts Walk.  I love the Procession.  The girls love it too.  We had a great day.  We took a lunch downtown and spent a few hours in the park and then went to stake out our spot on the parade route and the girls colored and danced in the street.  It was a blast.  Here are some videos of the procession.  Everyone is dressed up like some sort of animal or element.   Any ideas as to what the tutu monster is supposed to be?

This guy dressed as a blue avatar is kind of famous in Olympia for his feather dancing.  He performs locally and I used to watch him practice at evergreen when I would go there for swim practice.

I love these dancers.

 besides the parade we've done a few other things.  We had Easter at my parents house.  The girls are starting to understand holidays and are starting to look forward to them.  They like easter because easter equals candy.

 Here's Diana and John with their easter baskets

 Mom and Dad after dinner.

 Last weekend we took the girls and went up with my family to Anacortes and La Conner to the tulip festival.  We stayed in one of the campgrounds we go to.  We stayed there last year.  I love this campground because it is right on the water and so pretty.

 Shots at the beach

 The sun came out!

 We went to the Roozengaarde display garden and tulip fields.  They have so many different kinds of tulips, it's amazing!  I wish my patio were bigger so I could grow a bunch of tulips in pots out there.

 Roozengaarde's has a large display garden that you can walk through and see all the varieties that they sell and then they have huge tulip fields with red, yellow and purple tulips.  It's amazing.

 Here are the girls back at the cabin.  Violet is starting to understand the whole "look at the camera" business...Claire is more interested in her popsicle.

 Violet's beautiful profile.  Doesn't she have a cute little nose?

 V at the campground playground.  The beach is rocky so the playground needs to be full of sand.

 Zelda is a big fan of sand, she thoroughly enjoyed vacation.  She ran in the water, rolled in something stinky on the beach and dug up all the sand at the playground.  Needless to say she got a bath when we got home!

 The rest are pictures from today.  Here are the girls having lunch down town. We sat on top of the little mound at the park by the lake.  It's actually a time capsule marker but we used it as a picnic table.

 The girls wanted to be carried and to show Peter all the ducks.

 Violet before the parades started.  We had about an hour wait so the food bank hands out chalk all along the parade route and people color all over the street and people (my girls for example) dance in the street.  It is a ton of fun!

 Dancing in the street.

 Claire told me I had to take her picture and then she stood still just for me.  It was great....now if she would just look at me :)

 Mrs. Sun

 A preying Mantis...about 10 feet tall

The Orca.

we've had a busy and fun couple of weeks.  We hope everyone is doing well.  Love ya!