A trip to Wal Mart

     Before you could understand why a trip to Wal Mart could be so exciting, (and the thoughts that we are indeed, Larry the Cable Guy's muse) you need to see the first few pictures...

    

     Below, you will see the product of Lexi and the little girl from down the street's current thoughts on boys. Joe looked at it, filled up his pump-up water gun, and sprayed it off. Thus illustrating the reason for the general thoughts on the male species.

I happen to think boys are wonderful though! What would I do, without their ingenuity and repair abilities? Below, Joe evidently could no longer deal with the broken end of a board on the front porch that happened recently. So, he dug through Jasin's fix-it stuff untill he found the duct tape, and fixed it for me. No one anywhere understood why I thought it was adorable, yet funny. Hello!!!!! What the heck did I expect him to fix it with??? Duh.

So, today, it was decided maybe the kids needed some time away from country life, and each other's sole company... I needed diapers for the baby, and Jasin and Joe needed haircuts. Off to Olean we headed, to Wal Mart. (Where, yes, you can even get haircuts, wedding cakes, lawnmowers, bridal bouquets, laptops, milk, bread, roasted chicken, portaits taken, buy fishing licenses, get your oil changed, and do your banking, all in one handy dandy stop...) On the way to Wal Mart, I heard a commercial on the radio for a hot air ballon festival going on. When Jasin asked where in particular, I said I had missed the exact town, but, it was "that way" somewhere, and pointed vaguly to the left, headed east-ish. It would be fun!!!

So, armed with haircuts, tootsi pops and liqorice, we were off. A friend of mine happened to have better directions than "That way" and we found it. To be told the balloons didn't take off for another 3 hours, at least. Oh no. It was miserably hot, we didn't have the stroller, sun block, or a hat for the baby. However, around the corner, an entire street had been blocked off, with assorted vendors, and we wandered around, and even found a hat for George. This was nice, but it was still too hot. So, we decided to leave.

On the way home, we saw this really neat step down water fall. So, we stopped to check it out.

The kids thought it was wonderful, but Lexi really thought it was great! The kids and I managed to climb right up onto it. SO much fun!!

Joe didn't really like it. He felt safer on the shore. Kaila wasn't really into it, either, but, because Lexi was there, she felt she should be too.

After playing in the water, it was jsut about time for the balloons to launch. So, back we went, considerably cooler. After finding parking, and hiking quite a distance, we waited for about an hour, before it was cancelled, due to increasing winds, and incoming storms. We watched the lighting, as we hustled the kids back where we had parked. It was sort of disapointing, but, we had a fun day anyway.

Shortly after we left, the skies opened, and the storm was on top of us. It ended, however, with a rainbow, which Jasin obligingly pulled over for, so I could take more pictures. :)

And, my adorable little man! Seriously, this baby is so sweet and good natured! He travels so well, and is cheerful almost always. He just rolls with whatever we do, and is usually happy about it. He was perfectly content being carried all over the place today. He spent a lot of time peeking over wither Jasin's or My shoulder, smiling and cooing at people behind us. They were all completely charmed by it!

All in all, it was a good day. And, when all was said and done, the origional mission was accomplished;  Diapers and haircuts, all in one convienient stop ;)