Arvada Kite Festival

The 8th Annual Arvada Kite Festival was held on Saturday this year and we were able to go!  I was worried about it not being windy enough but it totally was!

The kids and Nathan worked hard on getting the kites up.

Lucas was so happy that he could do it all by himself!

Bridget was worried that she would blow away.

Scarlett didn't care and after I took this picture she let go of the kite and Nathan and the kids had to chase it all over the park! Hahaha. It was so funny!

Lucas wanted to try his kite again.  We love Yo Gabba Gabba, seriously!

I love this picture!

If you are wondering where all of the people are we got there early (15 minutes as usual) we got a great parking spot and were able to spread out and get our kites up!

I love this guy!

Then we decided to put the kites in the van and walk around the park and to the vendors.

They were giving away a ton of free stuff and one thing that the kids loved were these gliders.

They flew these around for a while and then we went to the park to play.

After that we played the games at each spot and then ran into the Texas Roadhouse Tent...they were GIVING AWAY RIBS!!!

Scarlett wouldn't share!

She loves her some ribs!

Then we saw this really awesome tent that had a cartoonist and you told him an animal and he drew it and then you got to paint it. Bridget picked her favorite animal an ELEPHANT...

After this the kids - I mean Lucas saw the police area and we had to go over there...

Lucas told the police man everything he knew about police-cycles and the Policeman asked Lucas if he wanted to be a Police Officer when he grew up and he said...

"Nope, I am going to be a Fire Chief and a Daddy.  

But not like my daddy, because he makes church too long"

(Nathan is Lucas's teacher at church)

The police man asked Bridget what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said

"Umm, a Bunny!"

We all got a great laugh from that.

We decided that we needed to hit the jumping castles.

Then it was time for a little snack.

So we sat and watched some of the contests while enjoying Funnel Cakes!

Trust me they were sooooo good!

Here was our view...

It was so cool to see all of the kites, they had over 150 entires and we saw a bunch of people we knew from the Singles Ward.  We ate peanuts and then it was time to go.

Scarlett was mad that the ribs were gone!

I love the things we do as a family, I am lucky that Nathan enjoys outings as much as I do and I hope we continue to do more! :)