Vala's 2013

Our annual picture with Mickey!

This year's trip to Vala's came courtesy of Cubby's work!  Free food and fun?  You bet we'll be there!

Every year Vala's gets bigger and it's quite the attraction site for us locals (and many non-locals!).  But, in all the years we've gone, this was the first time we'd gone in the afternoon/evening.  It was great!

Here are just some of the highlights!  I didn't take pictures of EVERYTHING we did...I'm not that good!

Anyone??  J/K, wouldn't sell them for the world!

Christian insisted upon this close up.

Juliana LOVED watching the goats.

The kids all really like "Storybook Village"...pretty sure there's some serious copyright infringement going on though. For instance, on one of the displays they had a Snow White set up with the music from the movie and everything.  I mean, the kids loved it, but not sure what Disney would have to say about it all :-).

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe...alas, sometimes it is how it feels!  (But not the OLD part...)

We caught a few tricks of a magic show (Emily was thoroughly unimpressed.  Shocker.)

Juliana, doing her happy dance, about the sheep

Christian, honing his cattle roping skills

One of my favorite drinks is back in season!!

 The biggest hit of the night, by far, was this slide!  It was getting dark so the pictures aren't so great, but ALL of the kids really enjoyed it.  Even Juliana!  I went down it once, but ever since I started having children, I get motion sick really easily!

Can you see Juliana's happy smile??

We also came home with a pumpkin that weighed more than Juliana.
She enjoyed having a "buddy" in the stroller with her :-)

We did all this and more at Vala's!  Such a beautiful evening and, despite how cheesy some of the stuff at Vala's is, we LOVE making these fun memories with our children!