Fall Fest

Well the kids and I made it to another Family Fun Fair on post this weekend. This time it was called Fall Fest and Toy run. We welcomed over 100 motorcycles at the park as they made their way to Ft. Campbell from Appleton. They were bring toys to help fill trucks for the holiday season. But what a trip to the park be without Gear-To-Go inflatables. Yes my kiddos enjoy jumping and playing on these things. They are always the same inflatables but it does not matter to them it just plan FUN.

Once again my daughter is not scared to climb anymore. She has found her confidence to do things by herself. If you look close she is climbing up the middle of this inflatable she is leading the pack up the ladder.
Here she is sliding down. She covered her eyes and giggles the whole way down. It was the cutest thing that I seen. The other mommy's watching were laughing too. She went on this on many times before we headed over to the water tent to get a drink and some ice cream.
After getting a refreshing drink and some ice cream, we headed to the pumpkin patch. Both kids were able to pick out a pumpkin. Here Brenden is holding his pumpkin he picked out. He had a great time looking and touching each pumpkin until he found this one.
Here is Riley being independent and looking for her pumpkin by herself. She found her a pumpkin too. She did a nice job.
After finding a pumpkin that was perfect we went to the craft/art tent and added a face to each pumpkin. Riley helped to both pumpkins. Brenden was not to fond of this process he wanted to run and play at this point. Once we finished the pumpkins we went to another tent so we could color a trick-or-treat bag. Riley and Brenden had a great time coloring. Here is what their pumpkins look like along with their bags.

Well the day did not end after the fall fest. Jess and I had plans to head to Nashville to go to the mall and do a little shopping. Sounded like a great time until we made it to I-24. We were on the road for about 15 mins before we hit some VERY heavy traffic (this is understatement). We had just past the 24 exit which is the last exit until we make it to exit 31. Well the fun has started. We are stopped. No one is moving and we are all out of our cars and standing in the road. The kids are out of their seats and playing in the truck. It looked like we were all tail gating and BBQing for the evening. After sitting for an hour a T-Dot truck had pulled up and we learned that their was a gas spill on the road at exit 35. So let just say we knew at this point we were not making it to Nashville. We are now trying to decide what to do. Make a U-turn or hold out and wait it out until we make to the next exit. Remember at this point we are at mile 25 and have to make it to 31. We waited and noticed that we had only went two miles (27) in a FOUR hour time span. At this point we came up to an u-turn and a semi-truck let us cut across and we pulled a u-turn. This would have happened sooner but their were police officers sitting in each one waiting to make their quota for the month. But after four hours and three hungry kids in the truck I did not care and made the daring choice. Once returning back home and watching the news I learned that the road was closed for over 9 hours and we sat in it for four hours. I-24 did not reopen until this morning. What a day!