Signs that fall is coming

I love fall..I love everything about fall.  And here in one my favorite places to live-Asheville- there are 2 sure-fire ways to know that fall is approaching:

1.The Apple Festival

2.The Fair!

Since my kids hadn't been to either of those yet we decided to show our kids one of the many reasons why we have and always will be a lover of good ol' Asheville in the fall time!  :)

The kids at the Apple Festival standing next to one of the bears in downtown Hendersonville. Believe it or not..these bears are pretty famous down here.  You don't drive down main street without some tourist pulling out there camera from their fanny pack and snapping a picture of one these colorful furry bears!  haha

The kids enjoying their cotton candy and snow cones-a MUST at the apple festival!  :)  If your wondering if Ezekiel is wearing a leash...the answer is YES! haha  Wow, those things are amazing! Shame on me for all those times I looked at moms and thought, "Really?!  Geezzee...you can't keep your kid under control so you have to put them on a leash??!!"  haha  #TotallyGetItNow   :)

There was a giant (and I mean giant!) inflatable cop with some gut inside dancing around (I still don't actually now why or what he was promoting?! haha)  and Malachi wanted to dance with him.  Well he was a little shy but I could tell he wanted to get his grove on so I joined in to help him get the party started! haha :)

Now on to our FAIR experience!!!!

The kids eating funnel cakes.  But they didn't even want them!  I know-CrAzY!!  So I took the liberty to finish it off for them.  :) 

Ok, so the kids apparently haven't really been on any real rides before and when they saw all the rides they went NUTS!  They didn't want to see the animals or eat the yummy fair food or even go to the circus...just ride those rides!   And of course the boys ran straight for the motorcycle ride!  They LOVED it...until they had to get off.  I think I actually saw a man put his fingers in his ears from the piercing screams that Ezekiel was letting off into the universe! haha

Mr. Cool.  :)

Annabella and I on the carousel

This made me laugh because Annabella wanted to ride all this fast stuff and we told the kids they could pick one more ride and the boys wanted to ride some fast car ride and we asked Annabella what she  wanted and she picked the train that goes around like a 1/2 mile per hour. haha  We said, "Annabella, are you sure you want to ride that?  It's gonna be really slow...it's meant for the babies."  She held her head up high, not caring what anything thought and said, "Yup!!" haha  That's my girl!  And...she loved it!! :)

The mini roller coaster that the kids went on...and LOVED of course!  It was actually pretty fast!

My most favorite picture ever!! haha  I LOVE that face!

We finally made it over to the circus but after a couple meltdowns, Ezekiel dropping both his sippy and his favorite car under the bleachers, and Malachi deciding to sprawl out under some ladies feet..we decided to call it a day!

It was so much fun to be able to take our children to things that Charlie and I used to go to when we were dating! I feel blessed. :)