Cheekwood Family Night Out

During June and July, Cheekwood has a program on Thursday evenings called Family Night Out.  It's from 6:30 to 8:30 and they have various children's entertainment groups.  Tonight they had The Happy Racers.  They make alternative music for kids - and my kids loved it!

Brian had to work but the boys and I met a bunch of our friends at Cheekwood (including Missy, Heather, and Claire and their families).

I got a pretty good group picture of Will, Rylan, Dowden, Hannah, and Carter:

Heather is pregnant with her third due in August.  Hannah takes care of her cousin Luke so well that she's going to be great as a second-time big sister!

The band played for about an hour.  Carter danced up front for about half of that.

Rylan did his fair share of dancing too.

I think Carter has replaced Sophie with a new redhead (this is Heather's daughter, Hannah) ...

Hannah was copying Carter and following him around and then Carter followed her around.  Once Carter got very concerned when he couldn't find Hannah and I had to point her out to him.

The Happy Racers ...

Claire works at Cheekwood.  She said the turnout tonight was amazing (last year only about 100 people came to the first event of the summer and tonight there were probably 400 people there).  It didn't hurt that the weather was really nice today and it had cooled off to around 80F when the show started.

We headed out a little before 8 pm and when we got home our contractor for the hardscape was here making sure we were happy with everything.  That meant the boys got to play outside for a little bit while we discussed the irrigation system and hardscape.  It was already dark so the boys both fell a few times in the mud and were not happy to be dirty.  They got a quick bath and then were off to bed about an hour after their normal bedtime.