Harvest Fest!

Even though it may not feel like it quite yet, fall is upon us!  This means the weather will soon get cooler and more and more days will be spent inside.  I'm really trying to cherish the outside times with Dimples.

One fun thing we did outdoors this weekend was attend our city's "Harvest Fest" they had in the park.
It was perfect weather for it as well, which made it even that much more fun!  She was digging the live music right from the start!

Right away we looked around for the kid zone area - that's why we came after all.  There were plenty of booths and food vendors to distract you though.  Once we spotted it the first thing we came upon was the fire department.  They had their trucks and free plastic fireman hats and coloring books.  Since she LOVES hats, this was perfect.  She wore it most of the time we were at the festival.

After that we turned around to be bombarded by an array of jumpy castles and a motorized train ride!  Unfortunately, Dimples seemed just a little to small for most of the jumpy castles and the train.  It would've been perfect if she were about 3.

So we moved on and found they had a free petting zoo!  We got to pet llamas, a donkey, ducks, chickens, sheep and goats.  Her favorite seemed to be the ducks, though they seemed pretty frightened, poor things.  Then right next to it were free pony rides!  She got to ride a sweet small black pony and loved it!  The lines were not even long.

After the animals Dimples spotted the biggest bouncy/slide of them all and wanted to go on it.  I was a bit skeptical but they let Brad take her on it.  So up they went... and then a quick slide down had her all smiles.  They did a couple different slides a few times before we decided we better go home.

It was a great day!  I love free events and plan to take advantage of them as she grows up.