Pine Tree '09

The Pine Tree was a complete wash out this year! Friday night Jeffrey and I took the girls down to play on the jumps, as the girls call them, but they were not working due to some sort of electrical problem. We did get to listen to some of the talent show contestants. Halle and Syd both bought a few things, aka junk, and were somewhat content to leave knowing we would be back tomorrow. However Saturday came along with the rain and storms. The storm actually blew down 40 trees on the lake around loop 2. It blew one on a camper and one on a car but as far as I know no one was injured. Thank goodness we were not camping!! Anyway back to the Pine Tree..... So the parade was cancelled Saturday morning and the concert was moved to the gym. We headed to my moms at the river to visit her and Rick once we knew the parade was cancelled.

Landen, our nephew, turns 5 tomorrow and his party was at the water park Saturday night. We stayed at the party for about an hour then headed out to make the concert. We missed the talent show winners and Trent Willmon. It ended up great being late because we ended up getting to meet Jeff Bates and Mark Wills! They were standing out behind the gym where we parked. I just walked up to them and started talking to some people standing there with them. Jeff stuck out his hand and said, "Jeff, nice to meet you." They were both super nice and took their pictute with Halle. She was really wanting a funnel cake and wasn't sure about the photo op holding her up. She said, "I'm going in to get a funnel cake!" They both thought this was very funny and told her to bring them one. I did talk her into the photo because I told her that her friend Kennedy took one with them. Plus the funnel cake people didn't move over to the gym.

The concert was great! As you can tell from the photo Syd enjoyed herself even with the noise. It really wasn't as loud as I was afraid it might be. In the photo she is playing air guitar with a glow stick we just had to purchase! I didn't get any photos of Halle once we were inside because she was too big to sit with her parents! :) 2nd grade........

Carlee and Kalee stayed with Jerry and Debbie at Landen's party.

We enjoyed the evening but it wasn't the same as sitting in the outfield of the baseball field complaining about being hot and fighting off bugs listening to good music!!!