The Mangelers: Pops in the Park

In the month of June in Sacramento they have free concerts in the park. I have known about this but forgot to look it up this year.. Earlier today Shaun and I were trying to decide what to do because our plans were deterred from going to Fresno since Julie's induction got rescheduled to Monday. So we checked out Sac 365 http://www.sacramento365.com/. It's a really awesome site. They have a bunch of events that are going on in Sacramento.. You can narrow your search to just free stuff too! I thought it was pretty awesome. Anyways so we found this concert and realized it was only about 2 miles from our house so we got out our jogging stroller and put our walking shoes on. We stopped at Subway on the way there.. (which was practically free because we still had money left on a gift card that Shaun had stowed away and forgotten about), and we got to the park about 10 minutes before it was supposed to start. It was pretty packed but we found a really good spot on the side of the crowds but really close to the stage. It was pretty good considering how far back some people were. the concert was Ivan Najera and Friends. It was like Latin Jazz/Bluesy type of music. It was really good. We had a nice picnic dinner and just chilled and listened to the music. It started to pick up in tempo about 15 minutes in and that got Jakey up and dancing! He was so cute. He was wearing his Batman shirt so a lot of people kept saying how cute he was and how awesome his shirt was. Anyways, so . Jake had a fun time dancing. I didn't get any really good video because I only had like 30 seconds left on my memory card. Lame!! I got some cute pics though. And then we left when the band took a break after about an hour and a half. It was perfect timing. The kids were starting to get antsy anyways.. So we packed up and walked home. There is a yogurt shop convienantly located on H St on our back home so we stopped and got a little yogurt. Total cost for a Family Night Out: Less than $10. You can't really beat that.. And we didn't even have to pay any gas money!! :-) I'll miss concerts in the park here in Sacramento. The weather is usually awesome and you gotta love the delta breeze coming in at night on those hot nights. Hopefully Vegas has some kind of something like this.. They won't have the breeze but maybe they'll have some free concerts or something!! Hey.. a girl can wish!! Cute pics coming up next......

See the McQueen car in his hand?? We had some money leftover on a Toys 'R Us card and we got that and Mater for him. I don't think I've seen him without in a car in his hand for more than 10 minutes in the past week. He is obsessed with the movie and cars in general. I think it's fun to see his personality developing and seeing what he likes and doesn't like!!