Wild, wild west and so much more

Yesterday in Billings we had a fun raiser for our local theater so the kids and I went down to it. It was a wild west theme complete with a gun show and games, Cody loves the gun shows so I knew it was right up his alley. The gun show started at high noon with the sheriff telling us how to put one finger in our hear and the other in the person sitting next to us. I have to say the guys were very funny with references to eBay, American idol and other pop culture things. Here is a couple minutes of the show, the sound isn't the best I forgot to put the battery back in my camera so I had to use my phone. After the show they had the Texas Roadhouse girls come in and teach some line dancing and Emily was all about that, so she got up and learned how to do the Boot Scootin Boogie. Its kind of a hard dance for a seven year old but she had fun doing it. The gunfighters did a new show every hour on the top of the hour so in between we did some other things. They talked to the gun fighters,
Cody learned how to draw a gun and had a gunfight of his own,
Emily got her face painted with a glitter butterfly, they both learned how to to rope a cow.

Then we would go back and wait for the next show, laugh and start all over. The coolest thing was when we stoped by to see a guy that bends iron and while he was hammering it and bending it Cody said "hey its a screwdriver" and the guy thought Cody was so imaginative. Him and Cody then went on to make this screwdriver together and allowed Cody to help. It is now hanging on his wall, he was so proud of that.

These are my two favorite photos from yesterday.
On Sunday we went to Lake Elmo for some more fun times in the sun. We decided to have a picnic so we packed up some food and up we went.

The kids played and played in the water until Grandma came to pick Cody up.




She called when we were there asking if Cody could go fishing, and the funny thing is five minutes before Cody had asked if he could call Tom to go fishing. After Cody left Emily played a little bit longer then she decided to lay down and read a little. On the way home we headed to a different spray park to play, and to rinse off the sand she had on her.

We stayed there for about a hour then headed home. We stoped one more time on the way and went for a nice walk along the rims. They have a great pathway up there and you can see most the town from it, with all the rain we have got everything was so green and the sky was so blue. It really made our town look good. . After we came home and relaxed for a little bit we went to the Symphony in the Park untill Cody got home. It was fun to see all the people, this is what it looked like when we got there by the time we left it was double the people. Emily wanted to sit close so we got a drink sat down and listened to the music, it was just the local group but it was very good. At one point however Emily started to zone out, lucky for us that was about the time Cody called and said they were on the way home. We then headed off to Grandma's house and she got her second wind. It was so much fun this weekend, I wish it didn't have to end. However as they say all good things must end, but that leaves a space for more good things to come. I hope you all had just as much fun this weekend.