Carnival weekend

This past Friday was the Robinson Elementary school carnival. It was a super-fun family event that helped raise money for the school at the same time. Besides the good food, bounce houses, carnival games, and the temporary tatoos, the kids love making a cake for the cake walk. This year, you could make a cake or cookies, so we chose to make a family favorite...fall cookies! Here we are cutting out all our fun shapes! Unfortunately, I forgot that the dough needs to chill. So we made the dough in the afternoon but couldn't cut them out and bake them until right before bedtime. I had fun decorating after the kids were in bed though! The finished product!

Of course, the first game the kids wanted to play when we got to the carnival was the cake walk. Audrey won the first round (although our odds were pretty good considering there were only 7 kids total that round)! Last year Audrey refused to leave until she won a cake...Grandma Arlene graciously bought a whole other sheet of tickets so Audrey could keep playing. Here is Audrey with her cake, as well as Randy, Isaac, Violet, and Christa, Charlotte, and Levi Wiens who joined us for the festivities.
Saturday we attending a second carnival in Reedley at Palm Village. Randy's grandma lives there, so we went to visit her, eat some cinnamon rolls and other good food, and jump in more bounce houses, all while supporting their Living Legacy fund (a fund that helps pay the living expenses at Palm Village after a resident has outlived all their own funds). Unfortunately, we forgot our camera, and Arlene's was out of batteries. But all the same, we had a great time! Violet ran, climbed, slid down and jumped to her heart's content for over an hour! And the other two had a blast as well...what a weekend!