After our Cousin Campout, we had a couple of (much needed) days of rest. But then Friday we had Harper's birthday party at Leapin' Lizards, a great bouncy house place in N. Richland Hills. Harper is one of our neighborhood friends that we go back over three years with. She's in the pink leggins, getting down with Ziggy, the mascot of Leapin' Lizards. Joel doesn't quite know what to think about Ziggy.
Saturday we got all gussied up in our green for the 3rd Annual Mansfield Pickle Parade and Street Party. It's a merging of St. Patrick's Day and celebrating one of Mansfield's oldest and best businesses, Best Maid Pickles. We met Gabriel's godmother Christine, her son Andrew and niece Holly and staked out a spot on the curb. Christine's husband Keith and daughter Allison were walking in the parade with their softball team. We checked out the street party, ate fried pickles and bought stuff for the kids to wave before the parade started. It was hot! But we really had a great time. I'd always wanted to go to a real, small-town parade, with decorated floats and all that. The boys had so much fun, they are still talking about it two weeks later!
Joel's first face-painting.
Gabriel and Holly show off their painted faces.
My guys getting excited about watching our first-ever small town (sort of) parade, especially the fire truck, the Elvises on tiny motorcycles, and the Pickle Queens!
Sweet brothers.
Sunday afternoon, Gabriel went to the birthday party of his best friend at school, Kalilah. It was at Chuck E. Cheeses. I stayed home with Joel, but halfway through the party Jav texted me that when it came time for Kalilah to get into the big booth and try to catch tickets, she asked if Gabriel could go in there with her. Jav made sure he understood that anything he caught was to be given to the birthday girl, and he already knew that. I thought that was so, so sweet. These two are two peas in a pod. And they have a chance to go all the way through 8th grade together, with just one class per grade at their school.
It was a fantastic week.
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