We enjoyed our first visit to King's Faire at Canyon Ridge Church this year. Just one more way to enjoy the Halloween/Fall Festivities, have fun, and acquire more candy. Oliver never contains his excitement for all things new!
First stop was to pick up a bag of candy. Let's see what we have...
On to the bouncer. Oliver just turned 5 and it was his first time inside one of these bouncy houses. I think of them as giant GermBoxes, but it was time I loosened up. The kids don't pay much attention to what they're doing, so I was waiting for an arm to be broken, but we managed to get through this unscathed.
On to some games. Win or lose, the reward is always the same...candy or some little trinket. Having never been to any festival, all the games were fabulous fun for Oliver. Truly simple pleasures where each game ended in screams of happiness. Oliver tries his hand at fishing.
Pure JOY at winning a lollipop.
On to more carnival rides/bouncy house things. This one included a maze which ended up in a slide. Oh, the thrills!
The Obstacle Course. IN.....THROUGH....and OUT.
We all take a break, deciding what to do next. Oliver gives his best girl and hug and kiss.
The kidlets are so sweet!
Maddie
OliverOliver starts pouting when things don't go his way. Is this pathetic, or what?
Oh...the torture of being 5.
When all else fails...grab hold of the hand of mommy's friend :)
We head off to the preschool area where more Bouncy House Things awaited to be filled with scads of youngsters crawling with germs :0 Oliver loved all but one, where he refused to enter because "there was too much air." I told him the houses were filled with air so they would be fluffy, all he had to do was plow through the wall of air coming through the door to get inside. But, it just wasn't gonna happen. All-in-all it was a great time. The kids ran through the bouncy houses several times with such concentration. Notice the tongue...
The little ones didn't want leave, but the Faire was getting packed and the adults were ready to head home. On the way out, the kids got to pet the security horses.
Back at home, Oliver dumps his candy bags out on the kitchen table and scours the contents.
Happy. Boy.
His head lifts to the sky and a smile a mile-wide comes across his face. And this smile is what fills my dreams at night!
To see all the photos from the evening at King's Faire, click here. 
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