in the middle of everything!

The title of this post is the motto of the town that we went to recently. Any guesses of what town that is? I'll give you another hint...it's Aunt Amy's home town....Mason City!

In all honesty, Mason City was very cute and bigger than I expected. Everyone in Amy's family was sooo super nice and it was so fun to meet and hang out with everyone. We went down to MC because it was their Prairie Harvest Festival and not only did we (eddie) go on some rides, eat some yummy food and listen to the yodeling band (woot!) we also got to go see Amy's family's farming operation in work! In other words, the whole day was pretty much Eddie heaven....so much so that not only did Eddie not nap that day, but he also was acting pretty good the whole time, which is very rare for no-nap days.

We started out at the festival rides, with Miss Madeline going on everything with Eddie and the bigger rides with Mac.

{climbing up the big slide}

{and going down!}

{for his second time down, eddie went rather....um....loco. he half bounced half slid and ended up in a mess of giggles at the bottom}

{we watched the water fights}

{such a cute picture of Madeline and her favorite person, Mac!}

{watch out! Mac's gunna hurl!}

{they went on the train, which was operated by 10 year olds. weird.}

{conductor eddie loved ringing the bell}

{eddie also loved the airplanes}

{but poor madeline wasn't so thrilled}

{seriously, she must have totally regretted going on the baby rides, she looked so bored!}

{she was much happier on the swings}

{and posed for this picture, when she saw me with the camera...she is so cute!}

{eddie and daddy went fishing}

{eddie's all....huh?}

{eddie loved this totally old-school slide}

{and I loved it because it is the exact same slide as the one at our Lake Geneva park....the one even my parents grew up on!}

And, after all that fun, we set out to find the boys who were farming.

{and oh, how we found them}

{and oh, eddie was so in love}

{we were offered to go for a ride in the tractor with Uncle Al}

{and eddie was soo happy, just repeating that we were in a blue tractor}

{and, to my surprise, he still talks about our ride with Uncle Al. The other day we drove past some farmers harvesting by us and Eddie got all excited. "UNCLE AL! UNCLE AL, MOMMA!" he shouted from the backseat.}

{and after his ride, Eddie thought the funniest thing was Uncle Mac making corn kernals 'pop' from his fingers. Eddie laughed sooo hard}

{pluck}

{pop}

{kelly jumps}

{eddie loves it all}

Thank you Garlisch clan for making our trip sooo fun! Eddie loved every second of Prairie Harvest Fest, and we did too!