We LOVE Strawberry Days!

Attending Strawberry Days has become a tradition in our family. After Elli's dance class that Saturday, the kids and I went to see what was on display this year.

Elli spotted the wood carver. He had lots of items on display. This horse bench was just one of the beautiful things we saw.

We spotted these miniature horses and carriage. Of course Elli was excited. As they passed us, the driver said "Rides are free!" MUSIC to my ears! The oldest four kids all had rides.

Elli was in her glory when she got to pet them! She was so sad when she had to stop so they could give a ride to her brothers!

Zach and Thaniel enjoying their ride!

Another *FREE* thing we found was face painting! Elli, of course, got a horse! She picked the colors..

Nathaniel chose a lizard!

Here's Liah sporting pig tails!

Elli looked around at everything there was and just HAD to have this unicorn! We stuffed it together and picked out the outfit.


We ate lunch there (pizza!) and ran into some friends. The kids went back later and did a few things with Daddy. The one thing Zach REALLY wanted to do was gem mining. The boys had done it the day before when they'd gone with Grandma and Papa Chuck. I thought the price was pretty high for what you got in return, but Zach really wanted to do that and nothing else. So, when Frank took them back, he let Zach gem mine. Turned out, one of the photographers from the Allied News was there and took a picture of Kaity, Zach and Thaniel while Zach was gem mining...so now they think they're famous!