Lemonade Stand Contest

For two years now Erica Crumrin (a.k.a. Evangeline's 1st grade teacher) and I have talked about having our kids participate in the lemonade stand contest downtown.  It finally worked out with our schedules this year.  We cannot take credit for this awesome stand, however.  Erica's brother-in-law made it for his sons about 10 or so years ago and it's been sitting in storage ever since.  We whipped up some tropical tasting lemonade, and some pirate costumes...added a Disney Princess for good measure (2 year old, Carrigan Crumrin) and the kids had a blast. 

 

They had pirate's treasure to hand out to their patrons....

 

Here is the sign the kids made.  They had two kinds of lemonade to offer.  Pirate Punch, which was yellow lemonade with Sprite and pineapple juice, and Princess Punch, which was the same recipe but pink.  (Evangeline drew the ship on the left.)

 

I like this next picture because I can just picture this conversation.  I know this particular face she's making well.  It's one she makes a lot when she's telling me about something.  It's so fun to watch her socialize with her little friends.

 

There were probably at least 20 lemonade stands this year.  It was just the picture of small-town Americana.  There were strawberry shortcakes for sale and all of this was followed by the band concert on the Court House lawn.  The city band was fantastic this particular night.  They played all the patriotic marches.