Happy at the Homecoming

June meant time for Glen Carbon Homecoming. We decided to go down on Friday night since Saturday and Sunday were going to be so busy with Father's Day. It was HOT! Should we brave the heat? Shawn was playing in a golf tournament in Missouri so I would be taking the kids by myself. Well, they really wanted to go and they look forward to it each year. So we went.

We ended up going with our neighbor and her two kids, Jack and Hannah. The first thing we did was the swings. Lexi's favorite! They freak me out because they go so fast and she seems so small. But she loves them and they said she was tall enough last year so I guess this year she is ... taller. She ended up wanting to ride them over and over.

Then we went and rode some other rides.
(augh, why is it that this always distorts the photos... will do it another way and relink tonight)

They always have so much fun in the ball pit. Notice who's head is fully buried in the photo with Lexi in the balls. I know ... YUCK! But I never get cuter photos then the ones in there!

We took a break for some Italian Ice in cute Cardinal caps. Yummy! I had some too. Perfect for the heat. Actually, I don't know who prayed the hardest but some how it was cooler down at the Homecoming then anywhere else. It was not too bad!

Then, an amazing thing happened. After playing way too late into the evening with our friends the Nafziger's and Swiatek's which included a big round of tag and chasing Lexi... Sledgehammering a car, and more... Brett decided to do some Karaoke. He did a great song for himself and then did a song he thought would bring up his kids to join him. But it was too late into the evening and all were too tired. Except wait... a young boy who is terribly shy creeped up on the side of the stage and actually went on the stage when Brett waved him over. Lexi of course followed as she would be on stage for any reason. But Nicolas knew this song... every word. It is a whole different story on why he knows so many John Denver songs.

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

I can just see him singing sweetly, shyly in the mic every time Brett held it up. Shawn and I stood there with our jaws open and tears in our eyes. Our boy! Our brave little boy!

And when the song was over and the people clapped, Nicolas walked shyly off the stage and came over to bury his head in his mommy's side.

Off to bed with them until next time.