Folk Festival Day

The school district hosts a folk festival every year on the first weekend in April. They charge $1 per person and have lots of activities and demonstrations going on. We invited Grandma & Papa to join us. Lexi and Miriam seemed to enjoy the line dancing (Cotton Eyed Joe and others) the most.

Rice Harvest Festival

This weekend is the annual Rice Harvest Festival in Katy.  In all the years that I have lived here, I don't think I've ever been before.  This year, Jordan's and Lexi's choir was scheduled to perform at 6pm.  I thought it would be fun to go to the Festival in the afternoon.  We headed that way, but it was raining a little.  I decided that we should hang out in the mall, which is nearby.  We walked around and went to Bass Pro Shop.  That is where we took the picture above.  Lexi and Jordan don't know who the cardboard cutouts are, but they enjoyed taking a picture with them.  

When the rain seemed to be clearing, we headed over to the festival.  We took a picture with an old fire truck, walked around looking at booths, ate dinner, and checked out the stage that they would be performing on.  About that time, I got a text saying that choir director was going to cancel because the stage was wet.  We watched a taekwondo troupe perform and noticed quite a few of them slipped and fell.  Lexi and Jordan were a bit disappointed, but we stopped for a funnel cake on the way out and all was good. 

School Festival

Zip line 

This evening, we all went to Lexi's school's festival.  We even invited Steve to join us.  I bought a few tickets so the kids could enjoy the different activities.  They always have plenty of fun thing going on.  

Enjoying treats in the cafeteria

Huge Bouncy Slide

Silly Face

Mini-Tramp

Rock Wall

 


Bucking Bull

Cake walk

Mormon Battalion Festival

In June of 1846, the only religious based battalion in US History began their trek from Iowa to San Diego. Although they changed history, they did not end up fighting one single battle. Details about them can be read here: Mormon Battalion.

Every year, a festival in their honor is held at Old Town. The festival was yesterday. We went with Grandma Margie and Papa Malcolm. We did the tour at the Mormon Battalion Museum, watched the small parade, enjoyed the booths at the festival, ate at a great Mexican restaurant, got the kids' faces painted by the toy store, walked around Old Town, and got ice cream at Cold Stone. We had a great time as you can see in the pictures below:

Sitting in the Wagon

Smelling Dutch Oven Cooking

Soldier Statue

Battalion Scene

Petting a Horse

Parade


Old Town Shop

Making Rag Dolls



Tug-of-war


Soldier

Cooking Biscuits



With Papa

Brick Making


Mexican Tile Steps

Lunch at Mexican Restaurant

Day of the Dead

Face Painting


Ice Cream

Panning for Gold

Mancos Days Festival

This weekend is the Mancos Days Festival, which is the closest town to where our family reunion is being held (we're staying at a bunch of cabins at Echo Basin). We took the kids into town for the festival. They had fun playing on the playground, eating lunch, and riding the little train. Isn't it funny that Lexi and Eden picked out cars that match their shirts?