Rose Festival 2010

Rose Festival was held the third weekend in June. It's three days filled with lots to do and brings lots of people to State Center - including Grandma and Grandpa Burdorf! They came down Friday afternoon and stayed with us through Sunday.

Friday nite is our favorite because they have a BBQ cook-off that features ribs, chili and leg of lamb. It is so, so good! This year they had so many entries we couldn't even finish taste testing because we were so full! Here are Grandma, Grandpa, Aaron and Jenna taste-testing some ribs.



Friday nite/Saturday morning was not so great because Brody got pukey-fever sick. He was up a lot and was sort of on and off the rest of the weekend. I was grateful the Burdorfs were there to help so I could get pictures for the paper.

Saturday morning I (completely exhausted!) ran the 5k. It was ugly and that's about all I'll say about that, but I finished! That's always my goal.

The baseball team has a tournament the entire day, so that's where Aaron spent his time. We hung out there too, when it was the Trojans turn to play.

Coach B deep in concentration. :)

Saturday afternoon Jenna got to go up and ride some carnival rides. She loved it!


Sunday they had water fights and inflatables, so we headed up to that. It was so hot and humid! Brody was still feeling the effects of whatever bug he had and was crabby and a non-willing participant. This is how he was most comfortable:

He "thought" he wanted to go down the slide with daddy. Yeah, that wasn't so good either. He hung on for dear life to Aaron and cried the entire way!

Jenna was in heaven and didn't want to leave. Here she is coming out of the obstacle course.

It was a great weekend, but I'm glad it only comes once a year!