Olustee Festival

The Olustee Festival was held this past weekend and it was COLD! The girls participated in the Fun Run, a 1 mile run around the lake. They had a good time doing that. They didn't place, but they enjoyed it, and that's what important. The group picture is with a lot of the kids from their school who also participated.Then we came home and got ready to go back out to watch the parade. It was a really short parade this year for some reason - maybe the cold weather. Mema and Papa were here to enjoy it with us. After the parade, we came home to rest for a bit and eat lunch and then we headed back out to the festival. There are always lots of great craft booths to enjoy. We didn't find many must have items this year, but the girls did enjoy seeing the animals that were there. Annlee and Maryella rode ponies and all 4 girls enjoyed petting the bunnies. The girls had each gotten $5 for Valentine's day from Mom and Papa and they spent it at the festival on these sweet little name bracelets.

Olustee Parade

This weekend was the annual Olustee Festival here in Lake City. We went to the arts and crafts booths yesterday and had fun walking around. Kaylin and Annlee were supposed to run in the kid's Fun Run this morning, but thunderstorms were in the forecast and it was drizzling rain when we woke up, so we opted out of that one. Maybe next year.

We decided to try watching the parade, even though it was still threatening rain. It got shortened quite a bit, but we still had fun. And the rain held off for us. The parade passes right by the entrance to our neighborhood, so we usually just walk up to the top of the hill to watch. We sat with some neighbors who also have 3 little girls who are each about a year younger than each of our girls.

Here's a couple parade pictures...