Zelie, George, and Martha

We left Marshall and headed up to welcome a new goddaughter into the family.

It was a beautiful Baptism for Zelie and we were honored to be there for her.

A quick side-note about the Baptism:
The kids and I had stayed at the home of some good friends the night before.
We got up in the morning, had a great breakfast, got all gussied up,
and then Romeo proceeded to topple down the steep basement stairs just before heading out to the van!
This picture was taken 36 hours later.
His goose egg had lightened in hue and greatly decreased in size by then,
so you can imagine what he looked like that morning at Mass!
Yikes!

The next morning we woke up at Oma and Opah's house and heard that there was a parade in a local town. 

Not only that, but anyone could be in the parade, and there were $100 prizes at stake!

So... after about an hour of throwing ideas around and getting costumes together, we set off to the parade.

We were hoping to win the "Most Patriotic".

Before putting the finishing touches on the float, however, we enjoyed the carnival rides!

Here are the little Redcoats, waiting out of the hot sun for their debut.

And here is George, in all of his glory.

Martha also joined him for this fun endeavor.

And... we won! Yup. They were pretty cute!

Love, Us.