Ellison Reese: Fall Festival

I was looking so forward to the Fall Festival at Bur-Mil this year. We missed last year somehow, and loved the prior year, so I marked it on our calendar early this time. It was a bit too hot outside - as is our theme this year in Greensboro - but we had a great day.

First stop of the day was the face painting station...

...where Ellison chose a heart. OK, the girl pretty much prompted Ellison to pick a heart, but whatever. It looked more like an apple, but bygones... It was free, it was a sweet young girl doing the painting, E was happy.

Daddy helping her pick out the perfect pumpkin to decorate with markers.

And Little Miss Thang striking quite a pose.

It's hard to see, because the features are so tiny, but she made a cute little happy face on her chosen pumpkin - complete with eyes, nose, mouth, hair, and cheeks.

We went inside for a bit to peruse the vendors, and stumbled upon a mobile planetarium that Ellison and Jon went into. I was glad I decided it wouldn't be a good idea for me to be in a tightly enclosed place - it looked like they crammed about 50 people through that enclosed bubble that looked to be about 10 feet in diameter.

After eating lunch, we, of course, could not pass up the opportunity to be photographed with Cinderella.

Then we took a nice little hayride through the trails in the park.

And of all the stickers Ellison had collected that morning to adorn her shirt, she chose THIS particular one to remove from her shirt and place it in just the right spot on a pregnant mommy. For the record, it stayed on long enough for giggles from several passengers and a photo, and that was it.

Ellison has always loved coloring, but she wants to color all the time right now. I thought she'd start the picture, then finish it later, but we sat there all clamoring for the little spot of shade under the tent while she completed the whole thing, background and all.