Butter and Eggs and lots of Princesses

Saturday morning started out with a trip downtown. Once a year Petaluma hosts a Butter and Eggs Day Parade and celebration which some 25,000 people attend. It celebrates Petaluma's rich agricultural history as one of the premier dairy regions in the country. Together with The Petaluma River, eggs and dairy products created an economy that turned our town into one of the most prosperous communities in the state in the early 1900’s.

We were not able to stay very long as we had nap times to deal with, but we piled the kids in their wagon and wandered around for a while. They were so cute - Arran and Bryttain took turns holding Asia on their laps and she loved every second of it.

Of course Arran wanted to wear his superhero cape, again. I still can't believe how much he loves to wear that thing, especially when we are going out somewhere!

In the afternoon, was cousin Michaelanne's princess birthday party. We'd been looking forward to this for over a month and Bryttain was especially excited to dress up as a princess. Asia was still napping when I needed to leave, so the plan was for James to follow with Arran and Asia when she awoke, and for Bryttain and I to be there for the start of the party. Well as usual all our best plans were shot down.

Our fifteen minute drive to Novato ended up taking two hours (fortunately Bryttain fell asleep for part of it). There had been an accident on the freeway and the traffic was backed up forever. On top of the backed up traffic, James van then started to overheat and I had to pull off at a gas station to let it cool down. Why do these types of things happen when I'm driving his van?!

We finally made it, in time for the last fifteen minutes of the official party! It was so sad! Fortunately, Bryttain did not realize that she had missed out on a 'real' princess who had been at the party, the kids still got to eat cake and bounce in the princess bouncy castle and have fun with their cousins.

The big girls helping Asia


Bouncing princess in the very pink princess bouncy castle (boy knights outside)


Asia completely adores her Uncle Ireland.


The birthday princess herself, after carefully applying her purple lip gloss!