Last thursday was the kick off day for the annual Turkey Festival in Tremont and so the kids and I have been going to all kinds of fun festivities. It's all of our first experience even though I have heard about this for years...
So far we have done the merchant's day downtown and even had uncle Doug in town for a few hours for the fun. It mainly consisted of free popcorn, lemonaide, and snow cones...well at least until they were shut down by the health department...oops. And then a magic show at the library, which I felt was very loud for a library experience but nevertheless the kids actually made it through the whole hour...kind of. Then later we hit the carnival and did some fun rides and games which won Kylie some really cheap toys, one which made THE most annoying noise on the planet, so I conviently left that at a friends house :) After that I attended my first Miss Tremont Pagent in an un-airconditioned high school gymnasium..did I mention it was hot and humid that day??? Not exactly Miss America...but I definately think the girl that won was a pretty good representation of the small town all american farm girl...perfect for this community.
So today I started off running in the 5k race and did alright, I'm not posting my time, we'll just say I have room for improvement and I wasn't last....:) Although the times will be posted on the internet at some point.... But in my defense I haven't been running much, more walking and only signed up a week ago to do this. I did have a really fun time and it has now motivated me to do more races, but with more training than a week...:)
After the 3 mile run there was an all you can eat pancake and sausage breakfast, so yummy and since I only have little ones, I could feed my whole family breakfast for $5, love this town. Although if they would have seen Owen eat they may have wanted to charge me for him...
After that it was face painting, the petting zoo put on by the 4-H club, shopping in the country store, and antique corner. Now I am home, exhausted and should go take a nap, unfortuneately my weedy garden is calling me.....which I am eating fresh lettuce every day from!!! I will post pictures soon. I had no idea how much I would love playing in dirt at my age, so now I have dreams of even bigger and better gardens in the future...ya know when Kylie and Owen get old enough to pull weeds :)
Tomorrow is the parade, I am told it consists of a couple of Tractors and a couple of horses and lots of candy....sounds perfect.
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