Sternwheel Festival - Pt 1

It's really felt like fall around here the last week or so. One thing that always says fall to me is Sternwheel Festival, which is this weekend. We went down yesterday and pretty much spent 4 hours just walking. It's kind of cool to just be able to walk out your door and be there but at the same time it's kind of not cool to feel like the entire MOV is at your house. It's been pretty loud and crazy already but not too horribly bad. I'm sure it'll be completely crazy tonight since the fireworks show fills the streets to max capacity. We're planning on joining in on the fun. Hopefully Julien will think the fireworks are awesome...

It's a bird, it's a plane...!

It's super Julien! Yesterday we went to River City Comic Con and enjoyed seeing several friends and browsing all the comics. We had some local artists sign our books and after it was all over we watched the Jugger match. It was a pretty great day. It makes me really happy that our little town is trying to pull together some fun local events.

Everyone agreed that Julien was the coolest kid there. I whipped his cape up the night before and I was so thrilled that he ended up loving it! He was so excited to show it off to everyone and he didn't even try to take it off despite it being SO hot. My baby's really acting like a little boy these days. 

Oh, we were in the paper too. You can find the article here. Please don't look at me in the picture, I was standing in front of a huge fan to get his cape to fly but really only my hair was flying... haha

Sweet Corn

 This weekend is the Sweet Corn Festival and Mayor's Jubilee. I'm pretty sure this area has some of the most random events just for the excuse to do crazy things... like walk around town with an ear of butter-soaked corn hanging out of your mouth... But even I fell victim, because who can turn that down? Especially for a buck! It was delicious too! I was going to let Julien try corn on the cob for the first time, but his first molar is coming through and he wasn't much into eating, so we did some other stuff and Papa ate his piece.

 J got another caricature done by J.D Williamson. We seem to get one every time we see him somewhere...

An old man made him a balloon hat and he thought he was the coolest kid on the block. He kept shaking his head around to make the balloons move. It was really hilarious.

He LOVED the bunnies. We tried to walk away 3 times and he ran back every time. I literally had to drag him away from them. They liked him, too, as you can see...

My grandparents from Florida made it in town just in time to enjoy all this fun with us. They'll be here for a few days before they move on so we'll be enjoying their company until then.

Enjoy your weekend!