This week it’s been all Irish, as in the Irish Festival in Dublin!  We’ve been on vacation the last couple of years during this festival weekend and haven’t been able to go, but this year we lived it up! On Thursday Griffin ran his first race, the Kid’s Dash, which is a 1/4 mile “race”. He did awesome as he ran down the street and back. Kevin ran with him as we weren’t sure what he would think of it.  Kevin remarked that while he was running he kept saying “this is so much fun!”.  He was given a really nice medal at the end of the race! Graham and Rowan ran the race too and afterward Amy and Andy ran the 5K. Grandma and Grandpa Beilstein came down to watch and we all had a fun time.

Grandma and Grandpa Beilstein spent the night too. Finn enjoyed Grandma reading him “Granite”, the new book they brought back from Alaska for him. It’s about a dog and the Iditarod race in Alaska and Finn just loves listening to it.  All of the cousins played together while Mom, Amy, and I went to get a pedicure to prepare for our vacation. Thanks mom! We’re finally reaping some of our harvest from the garden including some baby carrots (some harvested a bit early, perhaps, but we were eager ;)) Finn has been a cucumber eating machine and on this day he loved the baby carrots and pulling some onions.
Friday evening we headed to the Irish Festival with Griffin. We had some yummy food, walked through the vendors, and listened to great music. Then we headed back on Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong and Brett and Missy. It was an unusually nice day (low humidity, sunshine, blue skies, and warm temps! We spent a bit of time in the kid’s play area where I think Finn may have played every game and jumped on every inflatable that was there! Everyone spent Saturday night and we had a really lazy Sunday morning filled with doe doe’s, Finn’s favorite, from Tim Horton’s and a pizza lunch thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong! Yum.