Fall Festival

Every year on the 3rd week of September, our little town has what is called a “Fall Festival”. There is a parade, vendors set up booths with food & crafts along the main street, there are inflatables for the kids to enjoy & later in the evening there is the old “street dance” in the middle of the main street with music & a beer garden along with fireworks to kick off the beginning of fall.

We have lived in this little town we call “home” for almost 10 years now & this is the very first time we have ever participated in the fall festivities. Why we haven’t done this sooner I have no idea because it was SO fun.

All three of us ventured out on this cool, crisp morning & got our place in line along the main street of our small town & we all enjoyed watching the parade. It was your traditional parade with the local fire department starting it off with the sirens, along with lots of floats made from local businesses,  the high school marching band, & lots of candy being thrown to the little kids. It was nice to see SO many people supporting our town as there were people packed along each side of the street.

Mason LOVED watching all the floats go by & he has really become fond of “people watching”!  Keeps that boy entertained for hours!

His daycare made a super cute float & the majority of the staff either walked with it or rode on the float. 

When they passed by us they all yelled “Hi Mason”, waved & he even got a quick kiss from his day provider Miss Maggie (pictured below in the black t-shirt holding the sign)! He LOVES Maggie & you can tell she just adores Mason which makes me feel SO at peace with dropping him off every morning.

Can you see Mason's little head & body sitting in the stroller? 1st one on the left :)

Here is a picture of the float the staff made. Mason's afternoon provider is Kendra (whom we love also) & she is in the yellow sweater on the right:

And the back of the float:

The back of the float was pulling diaper boxes, milk cartons, formula cans, baby wipe boxes, etc & was a hit with the crowd! Everyone thought is was so clever!

Mason managed to get through most of the parade but as it was winding down, so was he as it was his nap-time! I still can't believe we have never been to the fall parade before. We will definitely be making this an annual event in the future for sure!