Taste of Summer

Chris and I were just saying to each other how much we are enjoying living in our new town - and one of the reasons is because there is SO much to do!  And this weekend did not disappoint - we went with the Connolly's to Jacksonville's Taste of Summer, an opener for the season's Britt Festival.   There was wine tasting, classic cars, good food, and just tons of fun stuff to do!

 They had some artsy type stuff - these were real people, dressed and painted to look like a statue! It was trippy, walking past something you totally think is a statue, then seeing it blink!

 musicians, who all played very cool instruments - cello, mandolin, accordian:

 More "living" art - Sean and Kadance:

 Chris and me - I think he looks pretty good with a mustache! LOL!

 Love these three! :)

 and classic cars lined the street - Cole thought they were pretty awesome!

 Cole and Declan, stroller buddies:

 Our boys loved the tractors!

 "WHOA!!!" Cole said:

 Checking out the birds:

 Sharing an ice cream cone:

 And of course, no day would be complete in Cole's mind without some wrastlin'.  This child of mine is 100% boy!

 "What? This isn't where I'm supposed to hold on?"

 This is one of the reasons we love visiting Jacksonville - adorable architecture like this church, built in the mid 1880's:

 It has a rose garden! with a white picket fence! so cute!

 And leave it to Daddy to help a grumpy two year old perk up on the walk to the car - a game of "let's run into the tree branches!"

 Of course Cole loved it!

 And one more super cool sight to see - a tractor (excavator? backhoe? yellow truck thingy? maybe I need to brush up on my large motor vehicle names...) that Cole was THRILLED to see:

It was a fabulous day in Jacksonville!