Monday, October 15, 2012

Fall Festival time!

It is that time of year again that I absolutely love - It's fall festival time!  I always try to plan our weekends so we are attending something every weekend and the boys love it.  This past weekend we went to the Bamboo Gardens Fall Festival.  Evan is finally big enough this year to really enjoy most of everything there.  First stop for the boys was the pony rides.  I had to hold Evan  and you can see Kyle (in the orange shirt behind us) was a big boy and got to ride by himself!
Look at Evan's shirt...isn't it the cutest thing EVER?!?  He made it in Ms. Ashley's class.  The little ghost is his foot print.  He is VERY proud of his shirt and walks around pointing to it saying "I do it!" :-)
Next the boys rode the tractor train.  Evan wanted to sit all by himself in the train car so Kyle sat behind him to make sure he didn't jump up.  Fortunately he did great but doesn't he look so little?!?
After we did a few more activities we walked down to see the fire trucks which I think honestly was the high light of the boys day.  At the time, there were not any other kids around so all 4 of the firemen talked too and took up a lot of time with my two.  Both boys got to hold the jaws of life and then put on the fire hats.  The hat was so heavy it almost weighted them down!

We tried to get a few pictures in an old tree (maybe Halloween card worthy....) however this is as good as I could get.  So needless to say, I am back to the drawing board.
Next, the boys stopped and color a pumpkin for a few minutes at one of the booths....
We parked right next to a beautiful lake so we stopped for a few minutes for more pictures.  I really like this one of Mom with the boys!
I have a fall festival/Halloween outing planned every weekend until mid November so we should be plenty busy.  I guess this will help with keeping us busy so I won't have much time to focus Christmas....Hmmm or maybe I should start thinking about it and planning now!