Festival of the arts

I am so behind on blogs. I guess life has been busy. Plus we got a new computer, so we're still working on transferring everything over. So way back over Memorial Day weekend we went to our town's art festival. It was a beautiful, not-too-hot day, and we all had a lot of fun.

 First they all played instruments.

Then they did a ton of kid crafts.

 Spencer liked the natural art - all the paints were made from silt and dirt.

The highlight of the day was definitely the sand castle. They had a few professional sand artists from The Sand Guys come down from Monterey to sculpt this huge, amazing castle. They worked on it all day, and the kids were able to "help." We spent a lot of time there.

Levi fell down at the skate park the day before (which was ironic, because he wasn't even on wheels - he just fell off a step) and scraped up his face.

They had the stilt people walking around again this year.

We walked around and looked at the art. Spencer especially enjoyed talking to the artists about their work. But the younger kids made us all very nervous around the glass sculptures, so we had to move along quickly.

Don't you just love this lady demonstrating the paper bag hats?

 They decoupaged glass candle jars.

There were dance performances all day, and we watched them while the kids were busy crafting.

We had to check out the sand castle one last time before we left. Check out their website. They've also been on the Travel Channel. Seriously, they were amazing!! And they were very nice and gave us some great sand sculpting tips. Spencer put those tips into action last night, and his group won 1st place in the youth sand castle contest. He assures me it wasn't anything like this one, but it was still really cool.