another year at the PORFD annual picnic

It has been a year already, and it means that I have been blogging over a year now! That is so crazy, I remember last year having the PORFD picnic as one of my first posts on my blog. Man o man time flies...and kids get older, and more independent with EVERYTHING.

Once again we had fun, we hung out a bit, then watched the parade, and ate, then bingo started.

Its so exciting watching the kids get older, he has always had fun at parades but now he goes and picks stuff up and waves as the go by. He didn't pick up everything though, we still had quit a bit in front of us, and as soon as the parade was over, everyone from on the sides of us, and across the street swarmed our area because we had so much candy in front of us...but it was the parents, not the kids. I so hope I never get like that.

My mom walked over and let him pet the ponies. It was $4 a ride, I decided to pass on that, since I am sure as soon as he sat on it, he would have wanted off!My poor parents sitting there trying to relax before the night was going to begin. They usually go up there with us, but this year I asked them if they would watch Ryan for us since we were helping Jason and Loni with bingo. Well it was my mom who did all the work, it should have been a paying gig running around in the heat with a very hyper 2 year old. She was a trooper, she did it for 2 hours. I would have given up atleast an hour before that!Jason and Loni calling Bingo. I must say they did very good, and kept everyone very put together. I even got yelled at by Loni. It was definitely my fault. I quit listening to my directions and went off and started collecting money, and we were assigned rows and I didn't pay attention to that part, and just went off and started doing my thing...opps, sorry Loni.

One nice thing about helping with the bingo was, we got to wear little tie around aprons (just the small lower part that has the pocket). And thank goodness, because I got to put one on the front and back, since during the parade I ripped my pants right up the butt! I thought I felt something, but I could not feel it with my hands, then I sat down in my chair, and well there it was. It was horrible! But my friends and loved ones looked out for me all night! At least they were only a quarter from a yardsale...thanks for the pants Kath, they only lasted a week!

And my mom with Ryan attempting to actually play a game of bingo, dad very soon took over moms cards. But lucky for Ryan, he got to eat his first mini bag of skittles he got at the parade! He had no trouble with them. Why is it they have never seen these before and with out hesitation they stick it right in their mouth. But put a new veggie or food in front of their face and its no no no.