Adventure 43

Honey coming to visit is always an adventure

every October my mom comes to visit and takes the kids shopping for their Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes and we go to the pumpkin patch. We have been doing it for a few years now and it is always a fun time.

She takes them one at a time to shop for the boxes. i need to join them one year and snap some pictures as they shop

this year we attended our church harvest fest

went to the pumpkin patch, we went to a different one this year.

Honey left on Saturday night but we still had another harvest fest to attend, one at Granny's church

Golden Boy got the meet Steve from Minecraft

Adventure 17

adventures in festivals

in 2011, on our way home from a camping trip with friends, and headed back to a house with no electricity because of the tornadoes that knocked it out for a full week, we came across signs  for the National Corn Bread festival and decided to stop and check it out. 

We had such a great time three years ago when we stopped and have been wanting to get back there since then, but every year we have something going on.

 

This year it appeared we would be clear to go, noting on the calendar, until my sons Saturday baseball game got rescheduled to Sunday. we decided to make the trip anyway and just show up for the baseball game right on time to play. it was still just as cool as it was all those years ago and there was for sure some fun times. every bit of it wasn't as magical as our first visit but i am glad that we were able to make it again and go.

 

Festivals

my hubby and i love to go to festivals. spring or fall it doesn't matter. if we don't have plans we and there is one going on, we are there.
this weekend we went camping with some friends and on the way home from the camping trip we stopped in south Pittsburgh, Tennessee. there were yellow signs on side of the interstate for the National Cornbread Festival. never heard of it and definitely had never been to it so my hubby looked over and me and smiled. i knew that we would be stopping.

once we entered we were amazed at how great it was. we had such a good time. there was cornbread to taste (lots of it and unusual and fun kinds) the bacon, jalapeno, ranch was our fave. we were surprised at how big it was, and how well of a job that they did on keeping it clean. there were a lot of youth that were making sure the trash was empty and everything looking nice. it was great. we knew that we would be coming back next year for the event.

i was very upset that i didn't have my camera with me while there but little guy slept the whole time and baby girl just took in the sights. the photo above, of our cornbread pan, stamped hand is it for pictures. shows we were there, right?!?! for me i was amazed with the porta potties. strange i know but they had a woman's and men's section and in the woman's there were silk flowers in the urinal (no need to have a urinal in the woman's one but i understand they they come all made the same) and then there was some silk vines hanging behind the seat part. it made it look nice (for a porta potty) and they had a flower scent to them so you didn't have an overwhelming scent of pee when you walked in. all in all, we were very impressed with the festival and are excited to go back next year.