Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Saturday we went to the Renaissaince Festival. Some of Nicole's brothers and sisters perform there as part of a EAC dance group, so we got some free tickets (Thanks Stradlings!). Edward seemed to have a lot of fun and made a point of making sure he walked over every bridge he could find as we walked around. We couldn't find the sunscreen before we left but since we were going to only be out a few hours we thought we would be fine. I guess the winter made us forget the intensity of the Arizona sun cause we were all pretty red looking today. Edward was less burned than the rest of us (I guess he is out in the sun more) and Nicole and poor Camron got toasted the most.

Edward took his sword with him to the festival to show off his Renaissaince spirit.

The Danceliers is the group Nicoles brothers and sisters participate in. Dallin is the tall one in this picture.

Edward got a ride in a butterfly.

This fool juggled and ate fire.

Brenton (Nicoles brother) in his Renaissaince outfit.

Just the cutest kids around!

Camron loves to eat his Mommys hair. You can also see Nicole and Camron are a little redder than usual from our day in the sun.

Dad and his boys!

The Bird

The other day I was down stairs playing with the boys, when all of sudden I heard a "thump." I went to the door and checked outside thinking that someone had maybe thrown something and hit the door. But there was no one about. After a quick look around I didn't see anything suspicious, so I went back to playing with the boys. Later that afternoon I went upstairs to talk to Ed and he asked me if I had seen that a bird hit the window. I told him I had heard something, but didn't know what it was and asked how he had known. He told me to look at the window and this is what I saw......

If you look closely you can see that the poor bird was is mid-flight when it connected to our window. I checked outside and didn't see the bird, so we are hoping that it is okay. From the size of its impact mark, it looks like a big bird (Ed thinks it was an albatross).