State Fair

The kids had been off track for a week and the fair was almost over. I told myself I'd take them this year and in a blink of an eye, it was over. However, thanks to some GREAT friends, we were able to walk in the gates and enjoy the farm fresh air smell and amuzement rides galore!
The kids were amazed at all they could see, and I don't feel we even dented the place, but we sure had fun, and had a GREAT time together as a family.

This is the Giant Slide. We had to walk a "mile" up to the top, carrying a carpet, then slid "all" the way down. Mommy and Justin rode together, and Sami and Jaren did. Justin said it "tickeled his tummy."

This was a little kids farmers market. They had fun. They got to milk cows, pick up eggs, plant seeds, pick the harvest, and then trade it for "play" money. At the end they could buy cereal or an apple. The kids thought it was great!

Rides, Rides and more rides. The kids would have been here all night long had we had enough $$ to get them on every ride! We bought a certain amount of tickets for them and told them to pick and choose. Sami chose this hanglider ride for her first one (top middle) and said it was "awesome." Jaren and Justin went on a ride (bottom two pictures) with McKayla and Hailey. I got a couple pictures of the girls, but either someone walked in front of me, or the ride got going too fast for me to get a picture of them. Funny though, Justin kept sliding down into the bottom of the cart. Look at their faces though (bottom right), they both LOVED the ride!

This is Sami Bungee Jumping. She was so excited for this. They harness them in and then hoyst them up. They start jumping, and they can bounce as high as they want. Sami got so good, she was able to do back flips up in the air! Way to go Sami.

Okay, we were all hungry, (cause kids wanted to ride rides instead of eat), dad was tired, had been at work all day, and half of us wanted to go, while the other half wanted to stay. We decided we had a few minutes to go see some of the animals. Of course I ran out of disk space (cause I hadn't downloaded the last set of pictures on there), and we didn't see all of the animals, but here's the good old fat pigs we saw (nice butt shot)!