Like many small Texas towns, Gilmer has an annual festival. The Yamboree.
Yes, folks...I said Yam. We celebrate an orange potato.
But, it's so much more than celebrating a nutritious tuber. It's about turkey legs, funnel cakes, parades and cow poop. Not really cow poop. But, it
is everywhere after the parades and everywhere at the Yamboree grounds.
This year was our first year living here in Gilmer. Because we were not visitors ourselves, we got to house visitors. And we really enjoyed it.
We had a family from Hutto make the five hour trek to see us. The kids had a great time camping out in Caleb and Connor's room at night. And I think they also enjoyed the Yamboree. Here is a picture of Quinlan and Caleb on one of the rides. Caleb expressed several times that he would not have ridden anything if Quinlan had not been here.
There are two main places to see the Yamboree events. The rides are all placed around the square. And the livestock and crafts are all out at the Yamboree Grounds. The rest of these pictures are from the Yamboree Grounds. They've built a huge wooden playscape at the grounds and the kids played there for a few minutes.
Connor
Cate
Our visitors from Hutto left Friday, only to be followed quickly by more company. Ben's brother Mark and his family arrived for more Yam Jammin' Fun. Saturday we made another voyage out to the Yamboree Grounds. We met up with Joe (Dodd brother #1 who lives in Gilmer too) and his family, and Dodd Mom Linda. This little setup was in the barn where the cows were kept.
Cara (Mark's #1) and Jackson (Joe's #3)
Caleb
Connor
