Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend Mark called to see if we wanted to meet some sweet friends downtown for a pizza at the park followed by a parade. "Sure!"
We hadn't been very "spur of the moment" since we started our allergy journey so we decided to try out "spur of the moment" in our new style.
After our picnic we found front row seats and watched with excitement...
as the Scottish parade marched by.
(This is where the video of Haleigh dancing was taken that was posted a few posts ago.)
We topped the evening off with some gelato for everyone!!
The next day we decided to give a Freedom Weekend Aloft a second chance. We had been on this outing about five years ago and it was one of the worst events we attended.
We were hesitant about what we would find...
Much to our surprise, we had a GREAT time!!
The crowd was not overwhelming, for the most part ;)
there were fun rides,
and just as we settled into the field where there seemed to be a lot of action...
the flag was switched from yellow to green and the balloons began to fill right in front of our eyes.
It was truly amazing, beautiful, fun!
I'm not sure who was more excited the girls or me.
At one point I started to move the girls back because I thought we were in the way of a balloon being set up. They told us we were fine where we were. I'm telling you we were less than ten feet from several balloons as they were being prepared to launch.
And before you knew it, the sky looked like this as the one hundred balloons took to the sky!
To wrap up the holiday weekend we spent Sunday evening with many of our small group families.
It was a sweet time to reconnect and be!
Love the second to last picture! Gorgeous!
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