Fiesta Days

 I have been wanting to start blogging again for the past few weeks but I don't know where to start so I'll just start with this week and go from here.
It's been a pretty laid back week. For the past 2 weeks I've been d-cluttering and reorganizing the house. I feel like I'm back "on top" of things. I'm hoping that I will be able to continue to keep up on it because geez life is so much easier! What's even better than that is that I'm not so scatter brained and feel like I know where things are and know whats going on. It's been something that I have been DYING to do and everything finally came together. When I say everything I mean that I finally had the time, motivation and energy to do it.
Anyways, Buzz had to work yesterday and so while he was gone I did 2 loads of laundry, straightened up the house, fed and took care of the kids etc. The usual daily mom stuff. When he got home I hurried and vacuumed the house because I had the chance. The kids were awake and for the most part everything was off the floor. Then we put the kids down for a nap so they wouldn't be cranky when we went to the carnival later here in Spanish Fork. When they woke up we all got ready to go.
This week is Fiesta Days and ever since they had Art City Days in Springville back in June, I've been promising Hurley we would ride the ferries wheel when it came to Spanish (He's getting so big and smart. He's starting to remember things. When we're out and about driving around he recognized where the carnival was last year and mentions it every now and then). I have also been wanting to go with Buzz and take him and Roxy. Our little family. It's so surreal that I have my own family. I try to imagine how things will be later in life and think about my Mom and Dad and how things were. That's going to be a different post. Anyways, back on subject....We had fun. At lease I did and Hurley and Roxy seemed to as well. It was laid back and we weren't in a big hurry to do anything or go anywhere. I love that feeling. We had plenty of time to just be together as a family and do something fun. It was nice the way the day had gone and worked out the way that it did. Breakfast, Lunch, Naps, Laundry and everything else went smooth and ended up being timed just right.

We finally left the house and went to the carnival. We parked 2 blocks away, loaded up the stroller with hoodies, diapers, wipes, the bottle and anything else we might need and headed over to main street where all the vendors and rides were set up. They had a bunch of classic cars parked on the lawn and we looked at them and took some pictures. I love old cars and it was cool to see that people had restored them and kept them in good shape. I would love to have enough money someday to buy and restore an old car. I'd like to get a Trans Am like my dad had when he and my mom got married. Anyways after that we walked through all the food booths to see what we wanted to eat. We decided to have some mexican style food. I had a chicken quesadilla and Buzz had some tacos. They were pretty good but nothing to rave or get excited about. Buuut it was good. The price was even better for being at a carnival. It was definitely a nice surprise. We all shared our dinner then crossed the street to ride the rides. The ferris wheel was 3 tickets per person and the guy who took our tickets "charged" us for Roxy! We hadn't paid for Hurley to ride the ferris wheel until last year when he was 3! Oh well what do you do? It was fun but Hurley got scared after they loaded us up and sent us up so they could load the next seat. The 4 of us couldn't ride in the same seat so Buzz and Roxy got onto the next seat. Because Hurley was scared I put my arm around him and told him that it would be ok and that we were safe. We looked at the lights of the other rides and saw all the people below us. I was distracting him and honestly was putting my slightly rattled nerves to ease. While we were sitting there waiting for everyone to get off and on the ferries wheel, the memory of my dad taking Gia and I popped in my head. I was telling him about my memory of my dad going on rides with us at the different
carnivals and at Lagoon. I could see his face with his eyebrows raised and his big smile. I was telling Hurley about it as they were loading the rest of the seats on the ride and how much his Grandpa liked taking me and Gia on rides. I also took some pictures while we were hanging in the air. It took me a little bit to convince Hurley to let go of my arm and I gently pulled my arm away from him so I could take some pictures. Well the ferries wheel was finally loaded with new riders and around we went. Hurley had spurts of fear and fun. Buzz said Roxy enjoyed the first half of the ride and the 2nd half she didn't like so much. After the ferries wheel we asked Hurley which ride he wanted to go on next. He wanted to ride the motorcycles so that's where we went. They were just loading the kids on and the worker told me I could help him onto one of the motorcycles. As I was looking for one that was available there weren't any. I realized that 2 kids could ride on one and just as that dawned on me a little girl on a green motorcycle says "he can ride on here with me." She was so nice! I sat him on and she says "I'll
help buckle him in." She was really cute and I was glad that she offered to let him ride on the motorcycle with her. After that we had 1 ticket left so I figured we could buy 2 more tickets so Hurley could go on 1 more ride. He decided to ride on the boats that went around on the water. On this ride he got to have a boat all to himself. He was really cute and I got some ok pictures of him. It was especially cute to see Roxy sitting in the stroller and Buzz leaning on the gate watching him.

 After that we headed back to the car. At the last minute I decided I wanted to look at the vendor booths. So we pushed through the crowd and looked at all the things people had made. I wanted to get Hurley a bracelet that one lady could custom make. He doesn't have a common name so I thought that that would be cool. Actually the reason I stopped to look at them is because Hurley noticed them first. I decided not to get it because we are going back to the carnival on Monday with my friend Sharee and her son (who is friends with Hurley) Kasey. Ugh money haha. After we walked through all the booths we started back to the car. They had a stage with lights and a band set up on the blocked off street. As we were passing Buzz saw Afton and Raquelle. He wanted to stop and say Hi so we chatted with them for a little bit. While we were talking Hurley was really cute and "rocked out" (doing his little dance).



After that we walked back to the car and went home. We put the kids to bed and we didn't have anything to do so we decided that we might as well go to sleep too. I took a shower first though. I felt all sticky from being hot while we were at the carnival.
Well, that's about it for this week .Oh and Hurley ran a fever back on (I think it was Wednesday) the 11th so I kept him home. He's still really congested and has a cough that comes and goes. Roxy was
pretty fussy this past week too. I'm pretty sure she's cutting teeth. Her bottom gum feels swollen and I can't really tell on the top. At the daycare almost all of the kids ended up getting Hand Foot and Mouth disease. Roxy had it the last week of May and so I'm hoping she doesn't get it again. We did what we could to prevent it from spreading but it still happened. One of the kids' parents didn't believe us when we told her that we thought her daughter had it. She took her to the Dr. and was diagnosed with something different. She did have some different kind of sores but as contagious as Hand Foot and Mouth is I wish she would've kept her home just in case. Oh well. Welp.....Ok I think that's it for now. Hope this week runs pretty smooth like this one did.