County Fair

Today I took the girls to the county fair, and took a billion pictures of our fun!  First we visited the Miracle of Life barn to see the preggo mommies and the newly born animals.  No births happened while we were there today.  (last year we watched a piglet being born!)  Then we visited all of the 4-H animal barns.  We loved watching the chickens getting washed!  The horse barn was their favorite.

Katie feeding goats.  She also fed an emu, among other animals.

Megan feeding a cow

Jessica feeding a camel

The girls got a free build-it kit from Home Depot at the fair.  They followed the directions and pounded the nails by themselves!  Jessi made a heart-shaped basket.

Katie made a bug house

Megan made a planter with pepper seeds

 Then we got our wristbands and went on all of the rides.  Five times at least!!  There wasn't a line for the kiddy rides, so they'd get off a ride and hop right back in line to get on the next time around.  The only things we waited for were bumper cars and the ferris wheel.  It was great!  I went on some of the rides, but Jessi was tall enough to go on most of them by herself.  Sometimes she wanted me, and sometimes she wanted to go on her own.  Little miss independent!

Meg and Katie on the carousel.  (or the horse ride as Jessi called it)

Katie and Megan on the swings

Jessi riding tractors

Katie and Megan on the gliders

Jessi wanted the big girls to go on this ride with her.  Don't they look thrilled??!!

Dumbo's butt

Jessi and I on the Dumbo ride

Jessi on Dumbo

Megan and Katie on the snake roller coaster

All three girls on the caterpillar roller coaster (2nd and 3rd rows)

Going around on the ferris wheel

Megan and the view from the ferris wheel

I am a cheapskate and packed our lunch and waters, but I splurged and got them a basket of butterfly chips at the end of the afternoon.  Yummm

And I bribed them that if they walked back to the car without whining, we'd stop at the local ice cream shop a few miles from the fair.  The bribe worked!  They got cones with "flavor burst" - a new phenomenon.  The outside of the swirls are colored with various flavors.  They each got to pick three flavors for their cone.

What a fun, but exhausting day!  We all look forward to fair day each summer.  Hopefully we'll get to go to the Fremont County Fair (Ohio), too!