A Play and then A Parade...

Received a sweet invitation through Andie, our daughter, from Bailey, our youngest grandmonster. Bailey was to be in a play and wanted us to come see her.  Yep, we could do that. And, we did.

Friday, July 17th found us heading to LaGrange. Bailey was in a play at St. John's Church. This is where she and Hayden both attended two years of Pre-school. They have a music camp every summer that is one week long. The kids come every day for 3 hours and learn a play and then perform it on that Friday evening for family and friends. Then they perform it again on Sunday for the church. The play was titled 'Acorns to Oaks'. It was about the parable of the sower in the New Testament and was very well written and very well done by these children.  Bailey was a crow named Lark. She had a small speaking part and was very, very excited to keep that a secret until we went to the play.

Here are some of the faces of this precious grandmonster during her play:

Friday night, Claude and watched the Mini's after the play so Andie and Michael could have a little date night. They showed us a new game show they watched while on their family vacation to Washington, DC and Philadelphia. It is called 'Boom' and was fun to watch.  We had a big thunderstorm roll through right as we put the kids to bed. Bailey made it back downstairs to tell me she didn't like storms. I went back up and told her I would lay there until she fell asleep.  Andie woke me up when she got home!! Silly Gramma!!

Friday we stayed for the Oldham County Days Parade in downtown LaGrange. They throw candy for the kids and just have a fun old-fashioned parade.  (1st picture, L-R, Andie, Claude, Michael, Bailey & Hayden)

The highlight was Hayden karate chopping a block of wood. One of the teachers Andie works with also teachers karate. She paused with a block of wood and let Hayden try his hand at it, literally. 

We had a family lunch at Arby's after the parade and then Claude and I headed home. Great fun with the family.