Renaissance Festival

An early birthday surprise for our princess Miss Makayla. We took her to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Pete has always told me about it but WOW! until you see it in person, stories cannot explain this. Pete and the girls ready to check it all out! So I haveto say sorry this post is definately HEAVY on photos but it was too hard to narrow them down. Enjoy!

I borrowed a "snuggly" from his sister and Brie was my ride along friend all day!

A beautiful close up of each of the girls if I say so myself.

Check out all the scenery, this place is very large with tons of permanent buildings. Look at the photo backgrounds, truly amazing.

Our first of many fairies, this one cannot speak and plays a lovely tune on her flute.

Another gracious fairy handing out gems!

Watching a show.

ELEPHANT riding! who knew! Kayla choose the elephant. The line was pretty long so she got a short ride.

Mags on the other hand choose the llama, no long so a very long ride. She never stopped smiling the whole time!

The overall friendliness of the festival was wonderful!

Story time with yet another fairy type person, the children all trotted through the field, taking part in the actual story.

Having pixie dust sprinkled all over ones body is a must at the festival. I think it has been at least 4 baths and swimming and I still see fairy sprinkles in my childrens' heads.

Maggie did well with her wimpy lungs, lots of shoulder rides by daddy and

an occassional sit with Brie in the stroller.

A very pretty bubble fairy who placed bubbles in your hand.

Lunch and a show.

Face painting for Makayla,

and arm painting for Maggie. She was enjoying a tootsie roll during the photo!

Pete said we had our own jester! Brie was the happiest baby all weekend! We are very lucky. 12 hours in the car and she held it together until 30 minutes from home!

A walk to the Enchanted Forest!

Swimming at the hotel on Sunday before check out. The girls did not know the hotel had a pool until then. I know we are mean for not telling them but we knew Maggie couldn't swim Friday night because of bad lungs and Saturday they were exhausted!

Brie's first time in a pool and swimming, this girl LOVED the water. I am pretty sure if she could talk she would definately say this was the best part of her weekend away! Poor little thing her mommy forgot about sunscreen on Saturday so we all had pink cheeks Sunday.

Our return brought out BIG smiles from our little man we left with grandma and grandpa! We all missed him terribly but knew he was being well cared for. It sounds like he and they had a great time together!

A group shot before headed home Sunday night with grandma and grandpa! Not too bad after how many hours traveling! A great big thank you to grandma and grandpa for caring for our little boy so we could spend some quality time with the girls!