Tulip Festival 2017

This year, Brooke and I was watching the weather closely to take the kids to the Tulip Festival.  It was such a terrible winter with snow even in early March.  It rained a ton and it was cold, sometimes in March with a high of 40.  The Tulip Festival opened towards mid March and the tulips were not in bloom until almost 2-3 weeks after they opened.  We had a full April filled with baseball and soccer games.  We ended up going the second weekend in April on a Sunday and Brandon missed his soccer game.  The weather cleared up just while we were at the festival and it was beautiful.  We got some really pretty shots of the tulips and the family.  The tulips were just starting to open.  Brooke and I were happy with this.  

Tulip Festival field

We loved the red tulips 

Yellow tulips 

Addie and Olivia by the tulips 

Holding the tulip and excited by the tulip festival 

Addie and Olivia by the tulips

Logan and Brandon at the tulip festival 

The kids running at the festival

The kids frolicking at the tulip field

Running around at the tulips 

Playing in the tulip festival together 

Tulip festival fun

Playing in the tulips

Tulip festival fun

Brandon 6, Olivia 3.5 years old

My sweet girl

Family shots so cute this year-thanks Taylor!

Love this one with my sweetie

After we took some photos in the Tulip Fields we went to check out the other parts of the Tulip Festival.  They had pony rides, some fun bounce houses, and then some fun free slides and a balloon animal making station.  The girls were super excited to go on pony rides and the boys had a blast going on bounce houses.  Olivia and Addie are both so into horses so it was really cute watching them go on their pony rides.

Going down the big slide

Cautious sliding

Waiting for their balloons to be done

Fun on the swinging horse

Best pals

Big hugs

Pony riding

Having so much fun!

Best pals riding

Love love this picture

After the kids were done with the bounce house and pony rides we let them play in the sand area and then gathered up the kids and headed back to the car.  We lost our car for a bit and finally found it and then headed to lunch at Dairy Queen with the Mowery family.  It was a very fun day and the kids had a blast together.

In the cute wooden shoe.  The kids were in this together as babies.

Brandon 6.5 years old and Logan almost 7 best buds and looking so old suddenly