Get Down Downtown

Searcy held its first annual "Get Down Downtown" last Saturday. After a quick trip in the morning to the Rhea Lana consignment sale in Conway, Emma, Mac, and I made our trek out to the festivities. They had lots of interesting things for the kids to do. They had a huge slide and jump house, and they also had face painting. A former student of mine, Emma Howard, painted a butterfly on my Emma's face. Most of the fun for the kids was held in Spring Park. We spent most of our time actually playing on the equipment at the park. Emma got to show me how she had learned to go across the monkey bars. She is growing so fast...I can't believe we'll start kindergarten next year!!! Mac enjoyed just running around. After a while, he got tired and just sat in his stroller and watched Emma and Job Thomas (a friend from school who showed up while we were playing). We went home to let the kids rest and to wait for Randall to get home from deer camp. Later that evening, we went back down to the court square for a Billy Dean concert. It was great. There were lots of people out with their lawn chairs, and Billy showed up with just his guitar...no band. It made it nice to be able to recognize that he still has his same old voice!! Emma fell asleep right after he started singing, but Mac was all fired up. He kept making circles around his stroller and the chair that Gramps was sitting in. Needless to say, he was ready to crash when we got home!! All in all, we enjoyed the first annual Get Down Downtown celebration and hope that it continues for several more years!! It's always nice to have something "free" to do!!