flying high

we went to the spanish fork kite festival on saturday. it was fun, though not exactly what i expected. i had been hoping to show the children some fun kites being flown (the advertisements mentioned a hundred foot octopus and a chinese dragon), but we didn't get to see too much of that. they had some interesting kites but most of the ones we saw were just on display. and they had some fun activities and crafts for the kids. it's just hard to do the crafts with 3 little ones under the age of 4. the kids loved riding on the segway, and the golfcart, playing at the playground and watching the airplanes drop rolls of paper towels. it was a good time for no money, what more could we ask for. next year we'll just time it better to see the cool kites and i'll make sure that i have help with the crafts.
these were my favorite kites
i made these hats (ian insisted on 'just white', i couldn't talk him into anything else, but it still turned out fun), and i think fiona looks absolutely adorable in hers

the boys loved this four-wheeler, they thought it was so cool that it was just their size and they insisted on taking a picture with it to show daddy



ian and his cousin paityn, the kids were really funny about pictures this day. they kept running from kite to kite wanting their pictures taken with all of them. even fiona would pose in front of a kite and yell 'cheese'.