Balloon Glow '09

We went to the annual Forest Park Balloon Glow on Friday nite.

We went with Annie, Caroline, their mom Jess, Mimi, and Auntie M.

It was a blast. I would have to say that BALLOONS hold a close position next to slides, swings, and bunnies [and bonus--one balloon WAS a bunny!!!] on Laine's list of obsessions.

So there are no balloons here, but this pic of Laine with Auntie M was in the upload, and too cute not to post.

The guy was dressed like a tomato, but the balloon wasn't :(

Here is Annie and Laine sharing a stroller. It worked out rather nice. It was cute that later on when they were tired, Annie was twirling her finger around Laine's piggy tail.


We saw them roll this one out from start to finish...to being laid out on the ground, beginning to inflate, rising, and being taken down.

It made me excited for the Balloon Ride that Adam and I are taking this fall!

It's getting bigger!

Yikes, fire up the heiney!!!

A BUNNY BALLOON--the greatest!

When it started getting dark, you could really see the "glow."

You could really feel the heat from these things. The Pepsi can was out of control and crashing into the other balloons, and then swooping down into the people; we had to RUN out of the way once.

Laine just crawled into the bucket--we thought she was trying to get something out of it, but turns out she just wanted to rest; so we let her stay and pushed her around while she was down there.

And here are her feet peeping through the front of the stroller.

Caroline, Annie and Laine---boogie-ing.

Auntie M---not so much.