Monday, June 29, 2009

Rochesterfest

This past week was Rochesterfest. It's a week long celebration throughout which are many different activities and events each day. We participated in a few this week and I wanted to share the highlights with you.

We saw the "moon glow," where colorful hot air balloons lit up the sky. Bryce and I loved it, but the girls weren't so sure. About every 2 minutes fire would be shot up into the balloon and it was a noisy affair. We actually lost Cady for a minute because she ran away when she first heard the noise.







We also went to the "Rochester Has Talent" show on Saturday afternoon. We sat down and enjoyed an afternoon of ballroom dancing, belly dancing (an unexpected surprise), cheer leading, and a surprise performance by...Cady! Well, almost. They ran ahead of schedule for a few minutes and the announcer opened the floor up to anyone in the audience. There were about 100 people there. Jokingly, I asked Claire and Cady if they wanted to go up on stage and sing a song. Simultaneously, Claire said no and Cady said yes. Cady stood up and began walking towards the stage. Slightly stunned, I stood up and followed her. I asked her again and she said she wanted to do it. She took the microphone and went up on stage by herself. The announcer asked her name and she said, "Cady," and then started to giggle. Right after the giggle ended, she covered her face up with her arms. That was the last the crowd saw of Cady's face. The announcer tried to persuade her to sing and eventually suggested that Cady turn her back to everyone and sing, but to no avail. Well, if nothing else, Cady got three minutes of fame along with her picture in the local newspaper. :) Bryce and I are pretty thrilled with the newspaper bit, that's going in her scrap book! Claire is already practicing the song she is going to sing next year, she wants to be in the paper too.

6 comments:

Taralee said...

That is awesome that you have that! When we were young we would wake up quite often on saturdays to hot air balloons ALL OVER in the sky. I miss it. that would be fun!

And HEY, I'm impressed Cady even got that far! That's so funny that she chickened out once she got up there. How fun to have the newspaper bit on it :)

Tell the girls HI!!!

Shelise said...

That picture of her is so cute. She'll love that when she gets older.

I'm loving that you're posting more. Now I need to get on the wagon. I've been such a slacker lately. Well not actually slacking but just plain not having any time.

by: Kim said...

She is a brave girl just to get up there in front of all those people. Hopefully next year she will really do it.

Sara said...

That is so cute of Cady. Good job finding so many fun things to do together!

Annie Sunshine said...

I love it when my kids get in the paper. We live in a small community and because Bryce does well in school, he gets in the paper at least a few times a year. I love the picture of Cady...it is so adorable.

Elizabeth said...

Rochesterfest is super fun to say. That is just the cutest picture ever. She looks adorable and heartwarming. What a brave little girl.