water carnival (last leg of our marathon)...

water carnival is a weeklong celebration for our community, however, livia's water carnival journey actually began mother's day weekend. Mother's Day weekend was when they hold interviews to decide who the 6 junior royalty candidates will be for the week of Water Carnival. After being selected along with her friend - Ellie, church friend - Elizabeth, and current Jr. Queen friend- Avery, Livia was over the moon excited to be a finalist!

Here are the pictures from the week of Water Carnival...

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PHOTOS FOR THE POSTER and NEWSPAPER

livia and her escort, evan

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PIE IN THE PARK (Monday)

 red, white, and blue was the theme, since it was also flag day

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PAGEANT PRACTICE (Wednesday) 

 livia and evan

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BOAT PARADE (Thursday)

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TEDDY BEAR BAND (Friday Afternoon)

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PAGEANT (Friday Evening) 

 ellie.elizabeth.livia

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KIDDIE DAY PARADE and CORONATION (Saturday Morning)

   

 livia's "cheering section"

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QUEEN'S DANCE (Saturday Night)

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GRANDE DAY PARADE (Sunday)

this is definitely a week livia (and the withers family) will NEVER forget!

the marathon part deux...

{warning: there are many pictures in this marathon race we called may and june...you may want to stop for a water break in the middle of this post.}

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mile 14:

SOPHIA'S MUSIC CLASS PERFORMANCE

sophia and her classmates had a "show off" day in May to show all their families all the musical terms and songs they had learned throughout the school year. it was so heartwarming and cute!

 sophia partnered up with her music teacher, ms. pearson

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mile 17

SHAWN'S GRADUATION DAY

with water carnival events falling on shawn's graduation party day, i wanted to witness his actual graduation day. i am so proud of him! 

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mile 18

LIVIA'S BIRTHDAY

on livia's birthday, bobby and i spent the day together with only her.

we surprised livia with horseback riding lessons!  

 livia's horse d.g. (daddy's girl) does not live in the barn...she is able to wander and graze whenever she wants, so she greeted us as we got out of the truck...how cool! 

 learning how to clean out the horse's hooves

 learning how to groom the horse

 walking d.g. to get on her saddle 

 ready for a ride!

 birthday lunch

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mile 18-20 - having a kid birthday party is STRESSFUL ;)

LIVIA'S POOL PARTY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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mile 21-22

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL 

 sophia was so excited for the last day of school!

 present for her teacher

livia was NOT excited for the last day of school...this picture was hard to get, since she was so sad! :(

 last day of school with my fourth grade class...

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mile 23

JOYFUL NOISE FEST

we attended the joyful noise fest for the third year in a row with the sederholm family. the bummer was that it rained the ENTIRE time...

 livia and kaytlin

sophia and elana

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stayed tuned for the last leg of the race...WATER CARNIVAL!

check back soon!