Tulip Time Pictures

Here's December rolling along down the street as we do Street Scrubbing. She is in heaven because she is surrounded by dolls!

December and Emilia in the wagon together (this is when they were getting lots of stares and "awww"s from people. They both loved that tennis ball December is holding and kept on stealing it from each other)

The two girls are watching the parade pass by, along with my cousin Justine (in front) and me

They are enthralled by the sounds and movement of the marching band



We are taking a break from our Street Scrubbing in the Dutch marketplace. My cousins, Justine and Makayla, are on the left and in the front. In the back is my Mom, my sister Kelli, and I. Everybody's holding someone!

Markus is giving a kiss to Emilia, before we start on the Street Scrubbing parade (there's that tennis ball again)

Markus is pretty cute!

We are very focused on watching the parade

December is carrying around a doll dressed in a Dutch costume

December and I hanging out before we walk to the parade

We stopped at the greenhouse that Mom works at to look at flowers and take some pictures (December's not in this one -- she's asleep in the car)

December is all ready to scrub the streets!

This is my Great-Grandma...she is December's Great-Great-Grandma! She loves Tulip Time and the parade and was there to watch us all walk down the street.

We had so much fun at Tulip Time! The pre-parade that we were in was called Street Scrubbing. Anyone can come line up to be in the Street Scrubbing, as long as you had on a Dutch costume and were preferrably wearing wooden shoes. You also need to bring along a bucket and a broom, to scrub the streets. The firemen open up the fire hydrants ((not full blast)) so that there are filling stations for your buckets as you walk down the street. You dump your water on the street and scrub with your broom (but no one does this with any kind of gusto)! There were TONS of people there to do Street Scrubbing -- mostly parents with small children.

On Saturday, my Mom, December, and I went back to the greenhouse pictured above and got flowers. I've been planting them today and have really been enjoying myself. I still have lots more to plant, too -- and my Mom says it's time for the bean seeds to go in the ground. December loves to be outside and has already brought me her shoes to put on so that we can go out...so I'd better get planting!