Riverfest 2009

In true "Happytimes" fashion I am a little behind on blogging on actual up to date events. But my whole purpose of my blog is to allow myself a chance to go back and read and remember all of the happy times Elem and Seth and I had as a family. And hopefully allow some friends and family a glimpse into what is going on with us! So I cant forget about Riverfest, an annual music festival here in Little Rock that Seth and I hit up each and every year. It is full of good food, tons of shows, and lots and lots of people! Not to mention hot and humid-and this year a little bit of rain. No matter, we still made the best of it and this was Elem's first year to go. Last year he was just a tiny bit too small and would have most likely just been too hot, so we skipped out last year, and had high hopes for this year.

We headed downtown around 3 or 4pm on Saturday after Elem had a nice long nap and we scooped up Poppa along the way. As soon as we walked in the door Elem was immediately intrigued by all the people, but a little overwhelmed all at the same time. First stop: the Jesse White Tumblers! However we were a few minutes early so we ended up catching this chick singing some country music! Can you guess who loved it?? This guy! He was a little timid at first, and checked it out from afar.

But just a few minutes later, once he saw the pretty girl singing on stage, and heard her music, he was ready to get down! He and daddy took off down to the stage.

Once they got there, Elem was so excited. He is such a lover of music and just almost seems so in awe when he sees someone playing music or dancing or singing -anything. Here he is cheering the girl on!

And here he is once he moved onto the stage. haha! He couldn't let her get all of the attention, he was showing off some of his moves.

If you have never seen these guys they are insane! It is a group of about 25 super athletic guys who can jump so high it is ridiculous! They do all kinds of flips and back handsprings and all that good stuff. They are super entertaining for the kids, and not to mention the adults too. :)


Although Elem did make it up the hill for a few minutes to catch a quick drink, he was back down in a flash to keep on watching the show....this time with Poppa.


AFter the show was over, we headed over to the kiddie section, where there was a bounce house, motorcycles, all kinds of stuff for the kids to do and look at, but the best booth there was one of Seth's friends from when he worked at the Rivermarket down town. He had a booth set up with all kinds of upside down buckets painted for the kids to play drums on. They had buckets and buckets of sticks so every kid who walked up could just grab a couple and get to playing! This was another one of Elem's favorites! here are Elem and Sissy showing off their musical skills.

Now he has moved onto the big drum. He isnt joking around here people.

After eating lots of pronto pups and popsicles, we finally made our way to one of the music stages, but it was almost to late for us to stay! I cant for the life of me remember the name of the band we checked out, but it was good! Of course the 2 little people below ran around until they both just pooped out.

Riverfest was so much fun and I can not wait to go back next year. I think Elem will have a lot more fun and not be so intimidated by all the people! And hopefully we will be able to stay a little bit later. Still all in all, a super fun family event fr a Saturday afternoon and night!