An arts and crafts sort of weekend

This weekend we took Kieran to two festivals- the Ashland Fall fest and the Jeff City Arts and Jazz fest. Rick and I took our art clubs on Friday afternoon downtown to participate in the annual Capitol Arts sidewalk chalk contest and so Grandma picked Kieran up from school- which is always a special treat for KP. (BTW- this year West took first place! Cedar Hill won last year- I think we are just going to take turns every year ;) On Saturday morning we took Kieran to the Ashland fall parade and festival where we met Presley, Shannon and my folks. Kieran liked the little parade and loved the flying candy! The kids had fun running around the park and eating kettle corn during the festival while the adults tried to keep up! In the afternoon we drove down to Jeff City so that Rick could create a chalk mural in the Arts and Jazz fest while Kieran and I went to my school to make a couple of paintings as gifts for grandparent's day. After Kieran finished his masterpieces, we met daddy downtown to see his art and Kieran tried his hand at a little chalk drawing too- he prefers painting- the chalk is "too hard!" ;) The weather was beautiful this weekend, despite some pop up showers and we are glad we were able to spend so much of it outside- it has me looking forward to all the other fall festivals coming up this September and October.

The Cedar Hill kids working on their mural...

The West kids working on their mural

Rick's drawing for the chalk contest

Part of the finished West mural

Presley and Kieran with their respective toys sitting in downtown Ashland watching the parade

Looking for candy!

Daddy and Kieran at the parade

This is far as Kieran went in the bouncy house that Ashland Fall Fest- it's further than he gotten in the past though ;)

Sharing some kettle corn with Presley and auntie Shannon

Leading Papa around

Fun with a balloon!

Sitting on a park bench with cousin Presley

Playing in a tree, wearing Presley's headband ;)

Playing Superman in the grass

The painting Kieran made for Papa and Nana for grandparent's day

Joe came over for dinner this week and Kieran was all over him! They watched Wall-e together and "flew" all over the house together- very cute!