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
CateOur 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
2 comments:
Hi Liz!
A new camera huh? How fun! Welp, I'm not sure how much money you are willing to spend and how into photography you are. If you want a beginner DSLR camera but would also like to have room to grow then a Nikon D60 would be a good camera for you. But if you've been working on settings, learning how to shoot manually, and are into photo post processing, etc. you could go up a notch to the D80 which is the camera that I have.
I'm really not much help as far as Cannon is concerned. I mostly looked at Nikon when I bought mine, mainly because I was familiar with it, having borrowed a D70 for several months. But Nikon and Cannon are both leading companies in the DSLR world.
If you have any more questions, please ask away. If you could let me know more what you want/need and what you know, I can be more specific about each camera's features.
Good luck!
Ralphie
Hey, we'll be there next year! Always wanted to get up to the yamboree. I'm glad the Belangers made the trip. Amy Jo
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