Cinco de Mayo

Emily, Louie and I went to Cinco de Mayo over in West St. Paul with Auntie Tesa, Maria, Bella and Lorenzo. We also met Missy and GenGen. Uncle Paul was playing in the softball tournament over there too. It was lots of fun and there were tons of people there.
This falls into the catagory of "World's Dumbest Purchase a Mom Made!" Louie spotted kids along Concord blowing these trumpets. I wasn't paying attention to them to know that they are quite possibly the most annoying thing EVER! Tesa bought one for Maria and Bella too!
As all the kids were blowing their trumpets, I had a flashback to "Sixteen Candles" when the Geeks are driving around in the car playing the kazoos, there's kazoos playing in harmony. That's what the trumpets in stereo reminded me of.

Emily loved the trumpet too.
So did Maria and Bella.

Bella reminds me of the saxophone player in the Muppets with her hair under the sunglasses like this. She wore them like this all day.
Then, Lorenzo wanted in on the trumpet action.
Because all the girls were distracted by the tent in the kids area that offered fingernail painting.

Maria picked bright blue.
Emily wasn't sure about the whole operation, but in the end she decided to go for bright pink. Notice that the people doing the nails are boys.


And then Louie realized that Emily was getting hers done and he HAD to have his painted as well. Yep, we'll be filing this one away with the shot of him in the pink Dora boots from last summer.
And after the fingernail painting, we got a Jolly Rancher Watermelon flavored snowcone, which promptly turned Louie's lips and mouth bright red. Looked like lipstick.

He really liked the snowcone.

On the way back to the car, we had to spend the rest of our tickets so we got some mini-doughnuts. They were so good!
We got home, took naps and then ordered a pizza for dinner. Lots of healthy food eaten at our house today!

Tomorrow, we're celebrating Charlie's 16th Birthday over at Auntie M's house. I am inspired by the delicious dinner we had over at Lynchs house last night. Mary made homemade refried beans (YUMMY!!!) and made bean and cheese enchiladas. So delicious! Anyhow, I'm going to also make some homemade refried beans and so fresh guacamole and chips to bring over there. Lunds has RIPE avacadoes on sale, 10 for $10! What a deal if you like to make guacamole and we LOVE it!