Fall in Louisiana

Fall in Louisiana brings football, the parish fair, and, for us, visits with family. We have had quite a busy few weeks. Austin has now been to his first parish fair, which opened with a parade through our downtown area. This may have also been Faimon's first parish fair parade. Austin enjoyed the parade, mostly the candy that he was able to catch or chase down. He did get a little bored with the actual parade. He liked watching the horses and 4-wheelers that were part of it.

Faimon managed to skip the fair as he was covering a couple of high school football games that week but Christa and Austin made an evening of it. Austin rode the merry-go-round, a truck ride, and a 4-wheeler ride. The 4-wheeler ride was his favorite. He cried after the first ride saying that he wanted to ride again on the other blue 4-wheeler. After 2 turns he seemed satisfied, though. He also took in some of the livestock (the chickens being the favorite) and a petting zoo. I can't forget to mention topping it off with his new favorite meal, corndogs.



Last week Austin and Christa also got to go to their first high school football game of the season. Faimon's parents were in town visiting so we all got to go to the game. Austin lasted through the first quarter and then was ready to go home. He said he liked the cheerleaders best of all. :)

Austin enjoyed having his grandparents around for the weekend. Faimon and Christa went through short bouts of the stomach flu that same weekend, so it was a good thing grandparents were around to keep Austin occupied.

We are enjoying the fall and are getting ready for Halloween. Austin loves the pumpkins and is all set to be Spiderman. Hopefully he won't change his mind before the big night!