Harvest Moon Festival

In order to make the Harvest Moon Festival a "fundraiser" it takes a LOT of volunteers and a LOT of donations. There are always a few classes that are asked to bring in a couple cakes per student to be used in the cake walk. They'll pick the top 5 cakes and then auction those cakes off separate from the cake walk. I decided to make this jeep cake that I'd seen in one of the kids' cake books that I have, as well as the Christmas ornament cupcakes. Do you know that somebody bid $20 on my jeep cake and someone paid $15 per 4 cupcakes?!?! It made me laugh, especially the cupcakes because I was sooooo over it by that point. Not to mention that I was running late for set-up Friday night because I was finishing my cupcakes. Oops. :)

Our kids LOVE the festival - there are tons of games, all of them age-appropriate. This is the 3rd year that we've gone to the festival and each year the kids are able to do more and more by themselves. Brett was running around like a crazy person this year, and each of them were so excited to see their school friends "away" from school.

Quick sibling hugs

Concentrating very hard, waiting for the music to start

He LOVES the cake walk! I love that he won a UNC cake for me :)

They even came by to visit me at the Volunteer Booth!