Uncle Perry's Station

This weekend, the girls and I loaded back in the car, this time with my mom and dad to visit both my Grandparents and Uncle Perry's newly redone TV station in Joplin, Missouri. The station was damaged in a storm a year ago and my dad has spent most of his time these past few months there working like crazy to give them an amazing new station. This weekend was their big grand opening, so we thought it was a great opportunity to support my Dad, Uncle Perry, and get to see my grandparents all in one trip!

We got into town just in time to change clothes and get to the station. The weather was a bit iffy, but held up for the tent reception. The girls were fantastic during lots of speeches - of course it helped that they could see Uncle Perry (who is a favorite) and they had so many people around them that loved them - and lots of others who saw how darn cute they were!

Proudly sitting with her Papa, who fixed the station. Meredith decided that he must have had a lot of tape to fix it. Luckily for Unlce Perry, Papa had something better in mind.
Jillian decided to go for walks during the speeches, so Big Sister came to the rescue to follow her
This sweet smile helped her to win some fans in the audience.

Next we got to go on a station tour to see Papa's handiwork!

Jillian and Aunt Sandy took a moment to pose in front of the makeup mirrors.
Jillian tested out the anchor's chair. Meredith did too, but would only face backwards since she was being silly. Luckily, we took another tour when Uncle Neil and Landon got there and convinced her to try out her anchoring skills too!
Meredith was really excited to try out the green screen - there was lots of dancing and twirling. So maybe she and Jillian will be a news team - Jillian behind the desk, Meredith doing the weather!
I got to have a little fun too!
My little weather cuties!
Jillian thought it was lots of fun to dance on the green screen too!
After the tour, we headed back outside for something to eat - and to see Uncle Perry. This little girl lights up every time she sees him!
I wish I could post the progression of getting this picture, both girls were being silly or uncooperative, so Uncle Perry and Aunt Sandy were doing some crazy things to get all these smiles to happen - I think it was well worth it for this super-cute pic!

Neil and Landon came to Missouri, too, but their flight got in late, so they couldn't make the event on Friday. Luckily, there was a fun family day at the station that we joined on Saturday so they could see it all too - plus, there were bounce houses and balloon animals (and we are now the proud owners of green balloon snakes for each kid - they were quite the hit at Grandma's house!)

On this tour, Meredith told me that she wanted to go back and get a picture in the anchor chair since she was being silly the night before, luckily we could grant that wish for her!
Then there was more green-screen fun! They actually used Meredith as their "model" to show the room how it all worked. The guy, though didn't seem to have a grasp on the fact that Meredith is 3 - he kept telling her to point to her left (which she is pretty good at doing - she gets it about 50% of the time! :)) or telling her to point to where it said "Sunrise", etc. Luckily, Meredith caught on and went with it and did a great job!
This is just a picture to show how funny she looked on the screen - as usual, she is in green, so she actually looks like she is wearing a weather map striped shirt since the green in her shirt disappears!