Danish Festival

August 20th, 2011: The highlight of the Danish Festival in Greenville, Michigan has got to be the Grand Dansk Parade. The best thing about it is, now that we live in Greenville, we only need to walk about 4 houses down to the corner and we can watch the parade! Every year, my [Michigan] family gathers to watch the parade together, most of us wearing our red Danish flag shirts (my sister Becky and her family and my parents were wearing Danish folk-wear).




I had entered the Danish Festival poster contest and got "Runner-up" status and my artwork on the back of the festival booklet. I got an extra honor because the "Danish Dandies" asked permission to use my artwork on their T-shirts this year! Here are the Danish Dandies. The leaders are sporting white shirts with my artwork in red:

Here's a closer view of one of the shirts:

4-H Fair

Continuing on with my "catch-up"...

Montcalm County 4-H Fair Kids' Day, July 6th 2011

Catching up...

I've fallen desperately behind on my posts. On the 19th of February, while taking pictures of Benjamin at his birthday party, my camera's card filled up. Meaning: I NEEDED to download images and get them off the card! So, thinking that they went back only as far as Halloween, I went back to the beginning on my card. Boy was I surprised! I had pictures on there from June and July! I haven't posted about them, but I had downloaded pictures from Mother's day and Peter & Anna's birthdays in May and June. So, I will try to play catch up now.

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Mother's day activities in Greenville.

In May, our town had kids' activities to celebrate Mother's day. They decorated cookies, chose a flower to pot & take home (as a gift for Mom), color a card to go with the flower, and get temporary tattoos:

Benjamin brought home a plant with red flowers in a hand-painted pot (from school) for Mother's day. It is the end of February now and it is STILL blooming! :) Here it is next to the other flowers I was given for Mother's day. I planted the Hyacinth (from Daddy) outside hoping it'll come back in the spring.