Vegmom Moments

Mountain Day

It was a beautiful day to visit the mountains and see all the attractions in our neighboring touristy town.

Earthfest 2012 Complete

Well, I did it!  

My first Falling in Happy Event was Earthfest 2012.  

I chose this as my first for a couple reasons:

1. It is a great event and always has amazing exhibits, so I wanted to be somewhere that I believed in.
2. I go every year, support the mission of living Greener and I learn something every time.
3. Vegkid Loves the event, the kids "natural" activities and learning booths.
4. It had a low cost entry fee to get me started
5. Had a beautiful location
6. The demographic of people that make the effort to drive out to this event, are those who may care about what I have to say.
7. It was only one day.  So I could ease in to the whole thing.

Then I started to get ready.  Had some major fiascoes, hidden expenses and huge chance of rain.  

Speaking of fiascoes, TODAY (2 days after the festival) I received the business cards which I had ordered to hand out AT the festival.  So now I have a whole lot of cards and no one to give them to.  

But that is for another story!

OK, so back to the festival!   The day started with my alarm not going off.... Yup, really!

Hubby came and got me saying "Hey, aren't we supposed to be leaving soon?"   Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Thankfully, I had everything ready to go the night before including, snacks, drinks, and bags packed.   Vegkid jumped up saying "I'm going with you Mom, we are in this together" He packed his own activity bag, got dressed and off we went.

So we go to pick our table and get set up.  Turns out we were really early and pretty much had our pick of tables.  I went with the first available table in the row closest to the entrance.   Hubs and Vegkid helped me carry everything, then put up the tent thing.   

My thought was "If I'm going to do this, I'm not going to hide in the back... " No Sirree, I'll be right up in the front and talk to as many people as I can.   Yeah well...my plan totally backfired.  Go figure?

The flow of traffic went down a different direction, and came down my row LAST!  So I was pretty much the second table to the front of the festival and the very last stop on people's scavenger hunt card.  Whoops!!!

But that worked out for the best.   I ended up having a lot of time to chat with people one-on-one between visitors, while the kids played with the lunchboxes and found their favorite fruits and veggies:

Asking the kids questions about their own lunches was so fun and getting some of the parents engaged in things that their kids may really like to eat.  

I met a few Veggie Moms and funny enough they were the only ones to notice that I didn't have any Meat on the lunch idea list, nor did I have meat in the kid's toy section.   But no one seemed to mind.  It was GREAT!

A Festival Kind of Day

We left Hubby at home this morning to work on our soon to be Home Made Compost Tumbler:

At this point the door was being cut and the holes in the side's were already drilled. 

Veg and I took off to An Earth Festival... which was HUGE fun, we were there for Several hours. 
We learned bunches, got some free goodies, and some not so free goodies...  And of course the Kid Activities which are always educational and fun.

After an outdoor Veggie lunch, we came home to use the "facilities" save hubby from his Compost Tumbler building, and dragged him to another festival with us... This one was all about Chalk... On the side walk kind of chalk...

It was Very Very Very Cool....

 

 

We walked around for quite a while, had more Veggie food, and then came home to play in the yard.

Should I say.. Veg and I played in the yard, while Hubby got back to his Tumbler... he was on a mission!!  (no pressure from me... nope...none....)  *wink*

After a while, I decided to leave them both in the yard and go for run... Sometimes these days I just want to RUN!!!  So I put on my Happy Shoes... And got in a quick 2 miles...  When I came home, Veg said....

"Oh Mom, when you got out of my site I thought I would cry forever"  Awwwwww.....  Such a Love bug... At least when he likes me... that doesn't happen all the time these days.   *smile*

Needless to say, it was a day of Festivals and one of being outside!    A Wonderful Day!!!

PS.. it is 8:16 and Hubs is still working on the Tumbler...  Stay tuned... There will be a completion photo soon.. I can feel it!!!

HOT AIR BALLOONS A GLOWIN'

There are a few things I LOVE about this time of year....

• Temps start to cool down
• Leaves begin to turn
• Fall Festivals are in bloom
• Produce is amazingly good

But one thing that makes this time of year Extra special... Is that the Hot Air Balloons stop by for a visit.... And they Glow... to music... at night.... ITS AMAZING!!!

This year was by far the best ever... I'll stop typing now... See for your selves....  (sorry for the fuzzy zoomed shots)

Note - Trying YouTube for my videos... lets see how they do...

First the Dueling Banjos

My favorite, the patriotic part of the show....The middle balloon floats up with an American flag.... sooo cool....

And some still shots, with some more fuzzy zooms...

And the boy with the silly hat (guess who?) got to climb a rock wall, thanks to some very nice Army National Guardsmen....  We were sure to thank them for ALLL they do.... 

Our Friends made an appearance also, and they had a try at the wall.  Even waited in line with us for the LONGEST time....  It turned in to a wonderful night.  Even if Hubby has a case of the Grumpies.... (oops did I just type that)