Juanita Elementary School Carnival

Juanita Elementary's annual school carnival was tonight. It is their annual PTA fund raiser. We all went and it was fun to be in Oli's school for the evening, seeing him with his friends and chat with some parents and teachers.

Bouncy slide was Oli's favorite.

The nerf shooting game was his specialty (not glow golf, sorry Mom and Ron).

We left with prizes, candy and 2 coupons for 2 gold fish. Hmmm, not sure we will be redeeming those. Oli's pet Fishy doesn't seem like he would appreciate a tank-mate.

In lieu of volunteering our time, I volunteered to donate a cake for the cake walk. I spent WAY too many hours and dollars on this cake. If it turned out better it would have all been worth it but it looked pretty amateurish when all was said and done. Oh well, it blended in with the other 50 donated cakes...well, not really, it was 3 times as large as any other cake.

However, all WAS worth it when Oli said at the end of the carnival, "Wendy I wish we could have taken home your cake. It would have been the yummiest."

I have a desire to capture Oli's love of making wishes with dandelions. Best to try and capture this not in our yard or else we will find ourselves with a LOT more weeds next season. Here are a few of my first tries...

Take #1: Great animation... Guess I should have Oli downwind...
Take #2:

Not bad....but I think I can do better. Stay tuned..