This year, they changed the location of most of the Tremonton City Days events. I was happy about that. They normally had all the bounce houses and booths at Jeannie Steven's Park. It is a nice big park, but there is very little shade. This year they had it at Shuman Park (I like to call it Library Park, since it is by the library). Library park has big tall trees, so there is a lot of shade, and it has the splash pad, so there is a nice place to cool off. They didn't have as many bounce houses as they usually do. The kids were a little bummed about that. Normally they spend the majority of their time playing on the bounce houses. This year, they got bored of it really quickly. Luckily there were lots of other things to do.
Alissa has been babysitting a lot this summer. She loves that she is finally old enough to babysit! Her friend, Malaiyha, left to spend the summer with her dad. She has a little half sister that lives with her and her mom. Since Malaiyha has been gone, her mom didn't have anybody to take care of Malaiyha's little sister, Tiernynn. Alissa had been playing at their house a lot before Malaiyha left, so Malaiyha got to know her and trusted that she would be a good babysitter. That's how Alissa got her babysitting job. Malaiyha will be coming home in 3 weeks. Alissa is super excited to have her friend come back. Anyway... I didn't mean to get off subject. What I was going to say, is that Alissa had to babysit today. She didn't want to miss out on Tremonton City Days, so she asked if we could bring Tiernynn with us to the Tremonton City Days Celebration. So, Tiernynn got to come with us. Brinley loves to play with Tiernynn, so she was really excited.
When we first got there, we went straight to the bounce houses. The kids only went down this one slide. They went down it twice. Then Tiernynn bounced in a bounce house for a little bit. then they were bored with the bounce houses.
While we were by the bounce houses, we ran into Taeyliana! We were so excited to see her. When we lived on the south side of Tremonton, she was over at our house almost everyday. We were so used to having her around. We really missed her when we moved. She is a year younger than Brinley. She is just a really nice girl. Brinley and her always had lots of fun playing together. She has a brother and sister that are twins and are the same age as Parker. They didn't come over to play as often, so we didn't get to know them as well. Her sister was in Parker's class in 2nd grade. After we ran into Taeyliana, she stayed with us and spent the rest of our time there, with us. She was going to be at the park all day, because her parents had a booth that they were running.
Alissa had some babysitting money and she was super generous. She bought us all some cotton candy! So, here we all are sitting at a picnic table enjoying our cotton candy. Taeyliana and her big sister are sitting at the end of the table and Tiernynn is sitting in between Alissa and Brinley.
After our cotton candy, Alissa paid for everybody to go on this fun little spinning ride. Brinley and Taeyliana went on it first. Brinley was excited to try it, but she quickly realized that she really didn't like it. she was scared. She didn't like going upside down and you could tell by the look on her face that she did not enjoy this. The guy spinning it, realized this and let her get off.
Alissa got on to finish Brinley's ride with Taeyliana (I really don't know if I'm spelling her name right). They loved it. I thought their hair looked cool. After watching them for a little bit, Brinley and Tiernynn got too hot, so they went to cool off in the splash pad.
Parker went on the ride with Taeyliana's sister. I can't remember her name for the life of me right now. I thought Parker would be scared like Brinley was. But he wasn't. He loved it!
When Parker finished, we were going to do something else, but there was a girl, who we knew from when we were in the 12th ward (south side of Tremonton), and she wanted to ride, but not by herself. She asked Alissa to ride with her. So, Alissa went on the ride again. They all really enjoyed this fun little ride. Alissa kept saying that it reminded her of Fireball (a ride that they always have at the fair).
When we finished the ride, we went to find the other kids over at the splash pad. They were having lots of fun.
Alissa had $5.00 left. That was the exact cost of something she has been dying to try. They had those fun bubbles that you can play in and go on the water. She was so excited to try it out. I was excited to see somebody I knew try it out. She said it was so fun. She said that it was really hard to stand up. She was able to stand up 3 times, but each time, she quickly fell down. She said it was exhausting, but fun!
Our favorite part of Tremonton City Days is the fun contests they have. They always have a hula hoop, hot dog eating, soda chug, and a pie eating contest. We knew we wouldn't get to do all of them this year, because we had to have Tiernynn back by 2:00 pm and Roger needed us home, so he could have the truck. Roger had plans to go to Salt Lake and stay at Dan's house. Dan has a camper, that he said we could borrow, so Roger went to check it out and, of course, hang out with Dan.
The contests started at 1:00 pm. This year, they added a new game into the mix. They started the contests out with a game of Bingo. They passed out Bingo cards. Each card had three games on them. so, we did the first square on the card. After a few people had called out Bingo, they moved on to the hula hoop contest. After the hula hoop contest, they did the next square of Bingo, then I'm assuming they did the hot dog eating contest, with another round of Bingo, in between that and the next contest. We had to leave after the hula hoop contest.
Here's Parker and Alissa during the Bingo game.
Brinley and Tiernynn didn't want to play, so they ran back over to the splash pad. I could see them from the spot I was sitting, so that was nice. Parker quickly got bored of Bingo and ran over to join them.
Alissa loves the hula hoop contest because she always does really well. She was extremely disappointed this time. They had one hula hoop out on the stage that was a cheap one compared to the rest. It was smaller and had now weight to it. We learned before that those dollar store type hula hoops are useless. You can't keep them up for long at all. When Alissa went up, this was the last hula hoop available, so she had no choice but to use it. I think the people in charge really had no idea, but we know that all hula hoops are not created equal. She was sad, because she felt really jipped for getting that hula hoop. We watched the rest of the contest and every person who got that hula hoop, was the first person out each time. The other hula hoops had a little weight in them and they were bigger.
Alissa was hot after the hula hoop contest. So, she decided to get her head wet in the splash pad. She knew we had to leave soon, so she didn't want to get her clothes soaking wet. Plus, we forgot to bring towels, so she didn't have a good way to dry off. The other kids didn't care about that.
We laid a blanket on the back seat, so the soaking wet children wouldn't get the truck soaking wet. After we got home, Tiernynn left and Roger gathered his things and also left. We planned to spend the rest of the day relaxing at home, then in the evening, we would walk to the end of the street to watch the fireworks that they would be setting off at Jeanne Steven's Park. We aren't too far from that park, so we figured we'd have a pretty good view.
Alissa had really wanted to go and watch the fireworks at the park. Her friend, Sydney, had talked to her about it before. She had told Alissa that she would pick her up and take her with her. So, Alissa was asking to call Sydney and see if she could go to the fireworks. Before Alissa could call, Sydney sent a text message to see if Alissa could come with her. Sydney's mom, MaryAnn, had agreed to come and pick Alissa up. Parker and Brinley were really sad that they wouldn't get to go also. I couldn't ask MaryAnn to take all my kids with her, but we are friends, so I felt comfortable enough to ask is she had room to bring all of us. She said she did and she wouldn't mind bringing us all.
There were still lots of activities going on at Library Park. After all the contests, they had a beauty pageant, then there was a Magician set to perform at 6:00, then they would have a band playing there after that. They wanted to go and see the magician. So, they came and got us all and took us to see that. The beauty pageant wasn't over when we got there. The pageant ended up running late, so the magician wasn't able to start his show until 7:00pm. We sat down and watched the beauty pageant contestants finish up a dance, then they left the stage, while the judges deliberated. I was surprised that the girls involved all had the big poofy expensive dresses like you see on 'Toddlers and Tiaras' on TLC. While the judges figured out their scores, they didn't have anything planned, so the lady in charge of the pageant, stood on the stage and talked. She was not a very delightful person. She came across as someone who is very uppity, self centered, and rude. The kids were bored, so they all ran off to play. Taeylianna saw us right away and came over to join us. She ran off to play with the kids also. I sat, by myself, listening to the pageant lady go on about all sorts of annoying stuff. She told us all about how her girls do pageants, but she makes them work for it. She makes them earn the money for their dresses and even the gas to get them to and from a pageant. Because if they want it, they got to work for it. Then she introduced us to the photographer and told us about how picky she is when it comes to photography. She said that she will take her girls to Sears to get the pictures taken. They will do a whole session, but if in the end, she doesn't like the pictures, she has no problem walking right out of the door with nothing and not paying them a cent. She insists that her photographers be good at what they do. She doesn't want pictures where her kids don't look beautiful and if they can't get a smile out of them, she's not paying. She met the photographer that she had there doing the show, when she was in Logan. Her kids had been out in the sun for hours handing out flyers (for whatever she makes them sell to earn their pageant money). The kids were hot, tired and fussy. For some reason they were in an area where he was taking pictures. Her girls asked if he would take their picture. He agreed. She said she was disgusted, because her girls looked so horrible at that moment. they were do sweaty and gross, she couldn't believe that they wanted their pictures taken, but she didn't stop them. when she got the picture that he took of them, she was so impressed with how beautiful he made them look, even though she thought they were so gross. He magically made them look pretty. It was the craziest thing listening to this lady. She told everybody how she never did pageants when she was younger and she still can't understand why anybody would do this. She thinks it's pretty stupid (crazy thing to say while being on stage at a pageant, in front of all the pageant loving people out there, who had just finished this pageant and were waiting to hear the results). She let us know that she is not a country girl... At all! She hates this country stuff, but she's trying to fit in. She just doesn't like the small town country type stuff (as she is standing in front of a large crowd of country folk who live in a small town). Then she asks, "But am I doing okay? I look kind of country right?" Then she says, "Let's dance. How about we do a country line dance. Anybody who wants to join me, come up on stage." Some of the pageant contestants go up on stage and join her. They dance. When the song ends, she tells us all about how she's not a very good dancer, then somehow she is talking about would anybody take her to a school dance. Then this girl runs up on stage and is like, "I'll take you to the dance!" She is really excited to be up on the stage and in front of a crowd, but she seemed to not know what to say. She stood up there by that lady for a little while. I don't remember what she said, I just remembered that it seemed really awkward, then she went and sat back down.
The whole thing was just very weird, a little entertaining, and kind of annoying. Entertaining in the fact that she dared to say some of the things she said and she didn't seem to notice or think that maybe she shouldn't be saying that kind of stuff at a pageant or to a bunch of country folk. It was odd.
The judges finally finished and the girls got their awards and left. Then it was time for the magician. The kids all came back over. Sydney and Alissa found seats up front and closer to the stage. Brinley and Taeyliana tried to squish in with them, but it was uncomfortable, so they were kind of in and out of different spots. At one point, I saw them sitting with Alissa and Sydney, then I saw them leaning up against the stage. They were just having a hard time finding the best place to sit. The magician turned out to be more of a comedy act than a magic show. The problem was that the jokes weren't very funny. It didn't take long for me to be completely bored by the whole show. I was looking off into space and daydreaming, when MaryAnn, said, "Look over there." I looked toward where she was pointing, just in time to see this guy sitting next to us, magically look like he just coughed up a bunch of cards. I have no idea how he did it, but he was amazing. He did a few more awesome tricks for us, then went on his way. He was super talented. He should have been doing the magic show. He was way more entertaining.
The magician, just kept taking forever to get to the point of each trick and most of the tricks ended up being a joke instead of an actual magic trick. It was pretty annoying and not very funny at all. So, that was a bummer.
After the magician, we went home and ate some dinner. Then MaryAnn, picked us up and we all went to watch the fireworks together. It was a fun day. I din't take any pictures when we were at the magician and I didn't take pictures at the firework show. The magician wasn't exciting and it was too dark at the firework show. I should have taken some pictures of the kids at the magic show, but I just didn't think about it. Brinley ran into another old friend from the south side of Tremonton. It was her friend, Fayleen (I don't know how to spell her name). They had a lot of fun playing together on the playground during the magic show. I should have taken a picture of them, since they haven't seen each other in so long.
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