Rock Canyon Hoedown

This evening was the Rock Canyon Hoedown, the free, fundraising event of the year.  We used to have a large Extravaganza to raise money for the PTA, but it was a huge production, required hundreds of volunteers, cost a lot for parents, and was something of a circus.  Last year they mixed things up, making it a much easier, smaller, and simply requested a $20 donation per child to cover the costs of PTA activities throughout the year.  It has been great from the perspective of work.  I hope they are gathering sufficient funds.

This year, Brick is now at Rock Canyon, so there was reason for him to attend the Hoedown.  Mikayla was alone, no Guy, and Cora and Kal were not up for an outing, so I collected Brick and took him with us.  Brandt found Paul and sort of disappeared, Blythe was looking for friends and sort of disappeared, but Brick and I did stuff.  We got in line to do the horse ride, but Brick didn't want to get close to the large animal and so we didn't do that.  He wanted to see the small animals at the petting zoo, but he didn't want to wait in line to see them, so he bumped the queue, looked at a hedgehog, and then walked away.  He really wanted to hang out with Brandt, and when we met up with him, it was all over for me.  He hung out with Brandt and Paul Moreland, and when they finally asked to be able to go off and do their own thing, Blythe appeared and Brick played with her on the playground.

All in all, it was a fun evening.  We all had a donut, we got popcorn, we took a few silly pictures.  Success!

Donut evidence.

Apparently Brandt was trying to consume his donut through his nose.

It took me six tries to get one picture of all three of these boys looking at me.