Well, this year for Uncle Tim's birthday, the city of Columbia and the bank decided they would throw him a big ol' party, so they scheduled the Roots, Blues, and BBQ festival right around his birthday!! Everybody from Springfield came up for the party, and we had a really good time! For those of you not in Columbia, the Roots, Blue and BBQ is a huge festival that's all about, well, Blues and BBQ... and roots, I suppose! It started off last year as a celebration for Boone County National Bank's 150th anniversary. This year, the city and different sponsors took part in it, too, though the bank was still one of the sponsors. They invite all of these blues and bluegrass artists to come in, shut down half of downtown and set up stages, plus gobs of food vendors (mostly BBQ, obviously) and the whole place is just crawling with people. It really is an amazing event!
We did have one UGLY event! Apparently it was time for Laney's nap and she couldn't relax in the huge crowd, so she SCREAMED for like 10 minutes straight. We strapped her into the stroller and tried to walk to make her stop, but that didn't work. Eventually Josh rocked her and sang to her until she fell asleep and she napped for a long time. She was happy as a clam when she woke up, but, wow, was she ticked! Liz H., I'm feeling your pain!
We did have one UGLY event! Apparently it was time for Laney's nap and she couldn't relax in the huge crowd, so she SCREAMED for like 10 minutes straight. We strapped her into the stroller and tried to walk to make her stop, but that didn't work. Eventually Josh rocked her and sang to her until she fell asleep and she napped for a long time. She was happy as a clam when she woke up, but, wow, was she ticked! Liz H., I'm feeling your pain!
Laney, pre-meltdown. Poor Aunt Ruthie was taking care of her when the meltdown started... she definitely wished she was wearing her "I'm the Aunt, NOT the Mom" shirt!
And post meltdown... passed totally out! We discovered that her umbrella stroller is not good for napping because of the metal pole on the side... so we had to make a pillow of sorts for her because she kept waking up and screaming again. Man, was that not fun! :)
Uncle Luke, Leila, and Grandma Looten...
Josh and Danny hanging out and listening to the music. Danny just started going to MU this fall, and it's a lot of fun to have him around (he moved here from Quincy, IL).
I wish the sun wasn't so bright in this picture, but it's still an awful cute one of Laney with her Uncle Tim!
Doesn't get much cuter than this!
Hanging out with Grandma Looten... she's kind of a goofball!
A cute picture of Leila... she's a very smiley baby now!
Sunday everyone came to church with us because Josh was preaching. After church, we went to TGIFridays for lunch, then headed back to Grandma Looten's house for strawberry cake and homemade ice cream. It was awesome! Here's the birthday boy, blowing out the candles!
Happy birthday, Uncle Tim!! We had a blast! 
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