Easter and Kite Festival

Easter with Grandma, Grandpa, Casey, Marissa, Wade, and kite festival, oh my!  It was Wade, Grandpa, and Grandma's first time at the kite festival and it was the perfect day for it.

love that dimple

freckles

it reminds me of this pic of her as a baby

Easter

After Olive's birthday party and my family visiting on Friday, the kite festival and Olive's soccer game on Saturday, Steve's family came to visit on Easter Sunday.  It was a super busy weekend!  We did our usual scavenger hunt for little presents around the house and then an egg hunt in the backyard.  I didn't get too many pictures because they were so fast!

 After watching her cousins climb the tree, Gwendolyn wanted to try it too (with a tight grip).

One of the little presents they found in their scavenger hunt was a paintable bird feeder.  Olive's is on the left and Hannah's on the right.

Kite Festival

The kite festival just happened to be the day after Olive's birthday and the day before Easter.  It was a busy weekend, but we couldn't miss the kites!  As Hannah said, "This is my favorite day of the year!"  I couldn't agree more.  Casey and Marissa went with us and ate a picnic lunch and soaked up the sunshine.  And Olive actually flew kites!  This was the first year she really became a kite flyer.  It was the warmest and WINDIEST day we can remember for the festival.

Olive decorated her cheeks with facepaint for the festival.

Casey started "close kite flying" and soon all the cool kids were doing it, too.

 

My favorite

Olive is pretending to be a tiger

Kite Festival

The kite festival was rained out last year, so we were really looking forward to it this year.  Plus we brought Marissa and Casey because they were in town for Olive's birthday.  Olive thought it was pretty special to have a kite festival on her birthday weekend.  

This is the last known picture of our fairy kite before Olive let go of the handle and Steve chased it across the field.  It got caught on a power line and might still be flying there.  Oh well, we wanted to pick out a new kite anyway.

Casey was very attached to the butterfly kite.

We had a picnic lunch and then got some cotton candy for dessert.

Our favorite kites were the whale, horse, and trick kite with a little man on the end of the tail.

It got a little chilly when the sun was behind clouds and Olive decided to snuggle up on Uncle Casey's jacket.

Marissa and I wore matching shirts (unplanned) so we had to document it.