Festival of Lights

The day after Thanksgiving is the Festival of Lights here and for the last 2 years Eric and I have been in charge of it and boy is it a lot of work! We start in October putting lights up, but before that we are in the lighting shed fixing broken lights and decorations. The festival is full of activities for families and kids. There is a free movie, bed races down main street, a children's parade, all the singing and tap dancing you can handle, fireworks, and a lighted parade through town. Eric and I were in the parade so I wasn't able to take pictures, but I gave my camera to my mother in law and she took some for me. The funny thing is that she is used to her point and shoot camera and with mine you have to look through the view finder. It didn't occur to me to mention that to her, so she just aimed the camera where she thought it should be and took pictures. There were a few that turned out okay. My dad also went and took pictures for me and so I will post a combination from the 2. I do need to recognize some of the people who helped us. Chris Beckstead put most of the lights in the trees up town. Chris Groll, Craig and Vickie Golightly, and Eric strung the lights across the street till 4 in the morning, and the Lions Club and a few ladies from one of the banks in town helped us set up the park. Pat Zook is responsible for the trees in the park looking better than they ever have. He rocks! I think that everything turned out pretty good. I do have to give a special thank you to my mom for watching my kids. All the hours that we put into the festival, she put into babysitting. Thanks mom! When you put your heart and soul into something like this it is hard not to be proud of yourself, and we are proud. I am glad that it's over though. Baylee and I got our picture on the front page of the newspaper. Baylee thinks that is pretty neat and I think so too. That will be something that she will have to remember. Hope you enjoy the pictures.