oaks

We get to go to Oaks again this year. I love Oaks. It used to be more of the locals day at the track before the big Derby event the next day but everyone has started to figure out that the Oaks is even cooler (in my opinion) and now it is almost as big as the Derby. We are going with our old neighbors! Our fav sitter Heidi is watching all 4 kids at our house. They should have a good day as well. I am wearing a dress I wore when I was prego with Camille. It’s not a maternity dress but works well in my in-between state. Since I am re-using a dress I decided to go all out on my hat this year. There is a locally owned craft store around here that helps you design your hat and will either make it for you are show you how. Marci and I went last week to have ours designed. It is big business here. We got to the store 10 minutes before it opened and were still #6 in line. When you get into the store you put your name on a list kind of like at a restaurant and then wait your turn. They take your dress and the hat you picked out and match ribbons, flowers, feathers and everything else to it and show you many options. It’s an extra $60 to have them do it so we decided we could do it. They have an instructional video on You Tube so that was our homework the night before we met to make them. We had Camille and Stella with us the morning we made them but luckily they were good as gold. The hats turned out so well. Mine is pretty big, tacky and obnoxious but that is what I was going for this year. That’s just how Derby hats are so I wanted one too. It’s a lot harder to make than it looks. Once you have the main stuff on it you need to make sure there are not gaps in stuff on the sides or that where you glued it all together is showing. Now we just have to hope the weather is good!