Happy Memorial Day! The girls and I had two parades to attend on this busy day. Since I was little I have always been in the parades whether I was dancing with my dance studio or sitting in a car. This year, that didn’t change for the Bristol parade but there was a minor change for the Forestville parade. I had the got to ride in a HORSE DRAWN CARRIGE! I truly felt like a princess and had so much fun.

On this beautiful afternoon, we made our way down to the Memorial Boulevard to celebrate Memorial Day. Lined up and down both sides of the street were all the things all of the services use. I never knew there were so many different trucks and boats and airplanes and other supplies used. On a more serious note, we listened to a soldier that came back from Iraq talk. I would like to take the opportunity once again to thank all of the brave men and women fighting to protect our freedom today.

Who doesn’t love ice cream?!...Tonight the Miss Bristol crew hosted a fundraiser for our relay for life team at Scoops and Dreams. The proceeds raised tonight all will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Kristina and I had the job of scooping ice cream for the night. (Thank god we have big muscles because its a lot of work, believe me! haha)

I would like to thank everyone that came and got ice cream tonight especially all of my friends and family. Love you guys so much!

Well let’s just say that if you’ve never gone to the Forestville Duck Race, you need to go next year. Even though it was a little rainy today, the weather held of somewhat resulting in a great event as usual. Between the food, vendors, games, and the actual duck race itself, there’s always so much going on at the duck race & I think that’s one of the things I like most about it. Emma and Jill had the opportunity of going to where the race begins and watch the hundreds of ducks get dropped in while Kristina, Que, and I stayed in the center of Forestville to introduce ourselves to everyone and thank the Forestville Village Association for allowing us to be a part of the excellent event. It took about a half hour until the first duck crossed the finish line… a highly anticipated thing!

The girls and I attended the Edgewood Little League Opening Ceremonies today. Each of the baseball teams joined us on the field for the ceremonies. Que beautifully sang the National Anthem & Kristina threw the first pitch. Jill and I helped with the raffle prizes as well. It was perfect weather outside which made the day even better!

Tons of kids along with their stinky sneakers arrived at the Imagination Museum today;  & yes, Kristina, Emma, and I were along with them. (But no, we did not bring our stinky sneakers with us today just in case you were wondering. haha) For this contest, there were judges and everything…their goal of today was to find the stinkiest pair of sneakers in Connecticut. While Emma and I watched the contest take place, we kind of felt bad for Kristina because she was one of the juges…she had to smell all of those stinky sneakers! EW, I know! Haha  Trinette ended up being the winner of the contest and was awarded with $200 and the opportunity to compete in the National Rotten Sneaker Contest. Congrats Trinette!

 

Happy Valentines Day!  The Imagination Museum hosted the Valentines Day Tea Party today.  All of the kids were dressed up today, including the boys that were there.  (Everyone looked adorable!)  Kristina, Que, Jill, Emma, and I helped pass out snacks while talking to the kids.  Kristina also read a book and we got to help with the butterfly craft.  The butterflies were beautiful! 

After we helped clean things up, the museum was opened and we got to help the children make crafts...there were so many options to choose from!

We all had another fun day at the Imagination Museum, as usual!

Hi everyone!   I just wanted to say that I am sorry that I havent updated this in so long….everything's just been so crazy lately!!!   But, I'm going to try my best to get all caught up on the great events I have had the opportunity to attend in the past few weeks.

For the first time today, I went to Wood Acres Farm. There is so much to do there and if you’ve never been, you should definitely consider checking it out! There was tons of arts and crafts to do, hay rides were given, and there were horses and other kinds of animals. Once people started arriving, we were responsible for greeting them and giving them a map of all the activities there were to do.

I had a great first experience today in visiting Wood Acres Farms!

Most of the time, when you think of a parade, you usually think of vendors and people in the parade who walk through the streets filled with people watching. But the Children’s parade is different! Every year, The Bristol Chamber of Commerce organizes a parade where local vendors line the street and children walk down and collect a bunch of different goodies. There are also different characters like care bear and Santa.

While we were walking, we noticed a group of elderly people smiling and having a great time watching all of the children walk by. So, we decided to go in and sing Christmas carols and talk to them for a few minutes. They loved it!

By the end of the parade we each had a bag full of goodies like pens, pencils, and candies from all of the vendors. Also at the end of the parade, the Bristol firefighters were waiting with hot chocolate to warm everyone up. We were all frozen, and hot chocolalte was just what the doctor ordered!