Last Thursday was my birthday. Of course I had to work that day - boo. But I was able to meet Michael for lunch so that was a nice break in my day. That evening, I did something different. It wasn't for my birthday, but it was on my birthday. The ladies group in the neighborhood had a Sip-n-Paint evening - doing an art class in the neighborhood. I have been wanting to do one of these for a while now so I went. We all did the same picture and the instructor took us step by step.
We were doing a large willow tree beside a pathway. Here is mine half-way finished.
And the finished product.
I would like to do it again, with a different picture (one I can choose) and maybe even take Rachel with me at some point. She'd enjoy that.
Saturday morning we went to the North Georgia State Fair again. We didn't go last year and Rachel really wanted to go back. We were there at 10:00 on Saturday - when they had the first hour free to get in and free rides. You can't beat that! Unfortunately everyone else had the same idea and we had to wait in a lot of lines - lessening the amount of rides we made it through in the first hour... Also, we didn't realize that Rachel would be too tall to ride the little kiddie rides now... Very disappointing for her. So we had to split up and find a few things she could do. We didn't plan that very well and she only got to ride four things - two of which were a bigger roller coaster and the ferris wheel. She did enjoy what she did though. Jackson really liked his rides. Next year we will plan better.
While we were waiting in line to get in, they were blowing up a hot air balloon right beside us... Michael and the kids when over and watched right there at it. Pretty neat!
Jackson rode this with his eyes closed most of the time.
This robot roams the fair each year. He's pretty funny - talks to you and the people around. Rachel actually went up and shook his hand and took a picture with him this year. A big improvement from two years ago. Jackson wasn't going close this time though.
And last night we finally went out to eat for my birthday. We got a few pictures of me and the kids ahead of time.
Guess who took this picture? Rachel was dying to try it so Michael showed her how and she did pretty good!
