Broadway Firsts + Odds and Ends

Today was a good day.  The Saturday chores didn't feel overwhelming, we (mostly Charles) got some work done in the garden, and we enjoyed a lunch out at the community park where there was a festival with bouncy houses, food, and games to raise money for the local little league teams.  I also had time for a run this afternoon in the beautiful sunshine and upper 60s weather.

I ran past the Heritage Park, where Broadway was having its first ever wine and beer festival.  For $15 you could get in for an afternoon of enjoying various wines and brews, plus live music to entertain you.  I ran by mid-afternoon, and it looked like folks where having a grand time.

I also ran over the newly completed pedestrian bridge.  For the last year or so, they've been building the new bridge for vehicles (on the right in the photo) and converting the old one-lane bridge to a pedestrian bridge.  This is the view approaching the bridge from Main Street.

To top off the day, Charles built a fire and the three of them ate s'mores.  I've been trying to get back on track with healthy eating and consistent exercise, so I sat and enjoyed the fire.  I've noticed that sugar incites wicked cravings, so I'm trying to stay way from refined sugar as much as possible.

On Monday of this week the girls and I had the day off from school.  They spent the weekend straightening up around the house, since there seemed to be a lot of their clutter lying around.  Monday they finished the job by straightening up the playroom.  Their reward was to open a package from Granny that had arrived a few days prior.

Hannah got a doll (the princess from Brave) and Sophie got two Lalaloopsy dolls.

That afternoon we went to Hannah's gymnastics class, which she's been enjoying tremendously.  We didn't realize that it was her last of the season.  Here she is posing with her certificate of completion of the beginner level:

She did the beginner class twice, once in the fall and then again this spring.  So she was very excited to turn her certificate over and see that her teachers recommended that she move up to the intermediate level in the fall!

On Tuesday the girls went for a photo shoot at a local photographer's house.  This lady grew up in our house and still lives near Broadway.  She put out a request a few weeks ago for girls in the Broadway area to photograph.  Since the girls served as models for her, she gave us a free 11x14 print and 30% off any other prints or digital images we wanted.  Here is Sophie keeping warm between photographs with a jacket zipped around her legs:

One of the photographs from the shoot (the rest can be found here):