The Steel Wheels

Saturday night, we went out to Yoder Heritage Day in Yoder, KS to see one of Adam's favorite bands, The Steel Wheels. The lead singer is from Yoder, so it was neat to see him singing back in his hometown...his parents were there and his dad even went up on stage to sing one of the songs with them! Very cool.

We arrived a bit early to get a good seat and to walk around. Sutton had fun running around and climbing on things...ALL boy. It was interesting people-watching too. Yoder is an Amish community, and I was so tickled to see the little boys that were Sutton's age, how they dressed and played.

It was so humid that night, the kiddo was drenched in sweat. 

Saturday was very rainy, and we were afraid the concert would have to be moved inside, but after getting ominously dark, the clouds parted and we had great weather. They constructed this makeshift lighting set up that rose up behind them after their first song. :) It was pretty funny.

These two photos of the band were both when his dad was up there singing with them. The song he was up there for was written from a song that the lead singer's grandpa used to sing to him when he was little, it's called Red Wing (that link will take you to the music video). GREAT song.

We first heard about The Steel Wheels because the lead singer's sister is Adam's high school youth leader's wife. Did you follow that? :) (His youth pastor Neil was actually the one who directed and produced the music video I linked to above.) Adam saw them there and went and introduced Sutton to them, so that was pretty neat.

2-year-olds aren't amazing at sitting still for an hour and a half, so Adam and I both took turns walking around with him during the concert. We got ice cream from a nearby ice cream shop that was yummy.

We headed out while they were still playing since it was already after Sutton's bed time and we still had a 40 minute drive ahead of us. We got to our car and some people told us that fireworks were about to start. So we decided to stay. Bad idea. Sutton hated them because we were really close to them and they were really loud. So I ended up sitting with him in the car, but we couldn't leave because there were huge crowds of people blocking all the entrances since they were watching the fireworks. Adam took advantage of that time to go back and get a photo with the lead singer, Trent Wagler. He was pretty excited. :)