my husband must really love me :)

i come up with a lot of crazy ideas. i'll be the first to admit they don't always end up being the best ideas in the world (although some of them are pretty awesome!) Today the little, budget circus is in town, and I really, really wanted to take the girls. I thought they would love it because it wouldn't be as overwhelming as the gigantic Barnum and Bailey was last year. The problem is, we are smack dab in the midst of some serious packing and moving. We have boxes, and toys, and clothes, and kitchen stuff, and household items coming out of our ears. I didn't think Cris would go along with the idea of abandoning it all this afternoon to head over to the little circus...but he was all for it! I think we are probably all getting a little sick of boxes and packing tape.

I love this picture of Juneau. it really shows her personality. It's so funny because sometimes i will look at a picture of her, and i can totally see her in 10 years.
ok, back to the circus. 1st of all, if there are any animal rights activist that read our little blog, you probably want to stop right here! i was hoping to get up close and personal with the circus animals, but i wasn't really expecting that we would be riding elephants and camels!

This little circus has probably been around forever! The tent looked to be about one hundred years old, and the bleachers were covered in goo and sticky stuff that was probably about 100 years old too....just our kind of place...we fit right in! :)

Of course there were pony rides...and of course Juneau loved them!Cris actually caught Nova smiling this time! She really does like riding, it just takes her a few minutes to realize it!

the little circus train was a big hit

But the best of all was getting to ride the elephant! The first time the girls weren't too sure about it (and neither was I!) so i rode with them. The second time they rode all by themselves! Juneau kept saying "It's sooooo bumpy!". nova wasn't quite sure what to say, but she was squealing with delight by the end of the ride

It may look like June-bug rode this camel by herself....

But Nova was on there too, just squished right up against Juneau :)

Nova didn't take her eyes off the cotton candy!

Cris likes to say Nova gets her weirdness from her mom...I guess i can't really argue that one too much! The whole way homes she rode in the car with her glow necklace around her eyes like glasses. She thought it was the funniest thing ever.

It was nice to have a few hours away from the big moving job! Tomorrow we have friends coming to help us move some of the bigger furniture into storage....which could prove to be interesting since somehow i still don't have any deployment orders. I guess there is a bit of a problem with my report date. Apparently my dept was planning on sending my on oct 15, but afghanistan is not expecting me until nov 20, so they are trying to work out the details of the dates. I wish they would work them out a little faster! We are really stuck trying to figure out what to do, and we will likely be "homeless" in about a week! So, i guess i will be shipping out sometime between oct 15 and nov 20...we will keep you all posted as soon as we know!