Harvest Festival: Day 3

And here's the final installment of our Harvest Festival...the harvest part!

There's a great farmer's market down the road from us with fantastic peaches. Mmmm......Could peaches be the most beautiful fruit ever? They remind me of a sunset.

So, we can peaches every year. Here's the results. Our peaches floated this year. I'm not sure why, but my friend said hers floated too. So I am blaming it on the peaches. :-) No, my syrup was not too heavy. It was lighter than light. So? I don't know. But, they still look nice, eh?

This is actually a cheese that Sam made in February that has been curing in our fridge since then. We decided to break it out in celebration of...Cheese and things. It was great. It tasted like mozzerella. By the way, that blue stuff is not mold. It is food coloring. You have to coat the cheese in wax to protect it from mold, and we tried to dye the wax blue to look cool. Well, wax and food coloring don't mix...apparently. So, speckled weird blue is what we got.

Sam's chalk art. Ok...this.is.funny. Remember my Hawaiian sunset scene from Day 1? Yes, well Sam was just blown away that my chalk art was prettier than his (he did some carnival scene that day). I mean, he was standing there staring at my sidewalk square just stupified. BECAUSE, like I mentioned in Day 2 post, he is better at everything than me. So, what does he do when I'm gone for an hour the next day? Create this Cat in the Hat masterpiece. The funny thing is, I knew the day I saw him jaw-dropping over my art that he would have to contest. I knew he wouldn't be able to take it-me winning.

We're not competitive or anything...!

He ran out of chalk before he could finish, and this picture was taken after the water fight. It looked a lot cooler before.

Remember the balloon chamber? Well, here are all the balloons out in our yard for the whip-cracking event.

Junior having a go at the balloons...

It was taking a LONG time cracking all those balloons, so we eventually put the poles on the ground, and let the kids stomp on them.

Then, wheel-barrow rides. Yes, those are extra kids of a friend who just had a baby.

Sam had quite a work-out wheeling them around the house over..and over again.

We ended the night with a movie that Sam made. It was called, "Something to Celebrate" and it consisted of pictures from the past year put to music. I might set up a link to it if he publishes it online. But, it was like 40 minutes long. You'd have to REAAALllly love our family to want to watch it.

Anyway, it was a great festival.

Thanks, Sam/Dad for all of your devotion to our family! You're the best!