Some friends from our church told us that The History Channel was coming to do a piece on the Davidson Co. Youth Rodeo and it was going to be free. Sooooo free sounded good so we went. There were 3 others families there that we knew and the kids had a blast. It was pretty interesting especially when one of the riders and his horse, right after coming out of the chute, came straight at us and slammed into the fence in front of us. Ouch!*
The kids couldn’t stay off of the fence.
Watching the tractor level out the ground was pretty interesting to them.
Did you notice that in every picture Jackson is on the fence? That’s Jackson! Hmmm, but I don’t see Davis.
We had to wait quite a while before it got started so the girls started getting creative with the dirt.
The riders did a nice flag presentation opening the rodeo.
Getting the riders and horses ready for the competition.
Hold on if you can!
Abby had her birthday party at Cheermania, a very popular place with the kids.
They have several types of slides, mats for running and doing flips, cartwheels, roll around padded items, etc.
This is a pit with foam blocks that you can jump into,
or slide into.
A fort under the slide. To the left you can climb up on top of the slide and on the right you slide into the foam pit.
Abby’s party had a Minnie Mouse theme. It’s hard to tell by this picture with the candles in the cupcake but it’s suppose to look like Minnie Mouse. Amber made homemade Oreo cookies ‘n’ cream popcorn.
Getting ready to blow out the candles.
Davis picking off the good stuff first. Reminds me of Jackson, Davis and Zachary picking off the Reece’s PB cups on Abby and Emily’s cake Amber made them for their birthday last year.
Jackson munching away.
Happy Minnie Mouse Birthday Abby!!!!!
This is the 2nd year that our church has hosted a Fall Festival that’s free for the community. Everything is free; food, pony rides, bounce houses and slides, games with prizes for the kids, a cake walk etc. etc. and a concert at the end.
I volunteered for the kitchen where I worked with these ladies to cook hotdogs, and put them in the buns, 1400 of them.
These ladies are stirring chili for the hotdogs.
Those roasters are filled with chili and beans to be served separately. It’s known as “bomb chili.” I didn’t ask the story behind the name.
It was a drizzly day but we still had over 1100 people turn out for the event.
We had over 200 volunteers from the church.
A slow moment at the cotton candy, popcorn, and beverage stands.
We all brought cakes for the cake walk (these are the ones I baked) and we all brought fall candy for the kid’s games.
Everyone seemed to have a great time, we sure did in the kitchen. I look forward to next year!
Statesville has had a Hot Air Balloon Festival for 40 years and we just found out about it on Friday. Dustin had the day off so we threw blankets, chairs cameras, and jackets in the car and headed on over.
There were tons of venders, selling every kind of food imaginable, a kids zone with bounce houses and over 40 Hot Air Balloons.
Abby and the boys were fascinated with my binoculars.
We got there around 3:30pm and they started blowing up the balloons around 4:30pm.
The trucks parked in and around the people and then the balloons started popping up all around us.
I was between these two balloons when they started to go up.
This one was, of course, the kids favorite one.
Abby wanted to take a picture with my camera, so she started snapping pictures of everything she could find which included me.
Just as we were leaving these two balloons started to be blown up. Pretty cool! We didn’t know what the one on the left was but the one on the right is what’s his name, the skunk.
We will definitely go again next year. The kids were free and adults were $5.
