Wheeling hasn’t officially kicked off their festival schedule.  And I haven’t officially covered it in my usual way…because these pictures are from a week ago.  But let’s pretend that I shared these right after we attended.

I’ve never been to the Celtic Festival before.  Apparently I was living under a rock because I’m not sure I even knew I was missing it.  This is like the 19th year they’ve been doing this and I knew about it for one year.  I officially fail on the Celtic side of life.  

To be honest, it wasn’t really Louis-friendly.  Which is kind of a buzzkill for us, because we like to take the kiddo everywhere with us.  There were a couple of things that he could enjoy, however.  And one of those things was getting his facepainted.  Which he literally wasted no time WHATSOEVER making happen.  I mean, we literally had walked into the festival and Louis was at the table asking to be a tiger.  Kiddo was ready.

Jon-Erik and Lilliana joined us and the little cutiepie got a little less of a dramatic painted look on her face, in the form of a sweet little flower.  She is seriously the cutest thing in the entire world.  Well.  After Louis.  So she comes in a close second.

It was nice to get out of the house on Saturday and be around a bunch of Wheeling hooligans, though.  Festival season might not have started quite yet but it was a sweet little taste of what is to come.  SO. FREAKING. EXCITED.  

I simply adore Wheeling in the summertime.