Circus!

During the kids spring break we were looking for things to keep the kids busy.  It was so nice to have Cousin Lowell up from Maryland.  He seemed to have kept Rylan and Arianna constantly involved in something, whether it be playing superheros with Rylan or just plain fighting over some competition with Arianna (which BTW, the fighting never stops with those two and EVERYTHING is a challenge/competition). 


Mike and Tanya were looking to do something with their family and asked us to join them at the circus.  We were so excited because the kids had never been before and I knew they would just love it.  Okay, so I am going to be real when I say that my excitement was founded on the fact that my childhood memories consisted mainly of cotton candy, popcorn and light-up gadgets galore and I really wanted to share all of those things with my children. 

We arrived at the event and met up with the rest of the family and then suddenly Ryan vanished somewhere into the fried dough stand and from there on out most of his time was spent purchasing food and toys for the kiddos.  Amazingly the tickets were only 10 dollars a piece.  A great inexpensive family outing right?  Wrong!  After adding up our extra purchases, we spent well over over 100 dollars.  Ahhhh.  Oh well, it was so worth it.  The family had a great time watching the fun, although I have to admit that I am not a fan of the seating as my butt was really sore from the hard plastic benches and not to sound like a corny mastercard commercial, but just being able to see the magic in the kids eyes was absolutely priceless.