Friday Night At The State Fair

Of coarse they wanted to stop at the race cars :-). Men!!

Jacob got chosen to participate in a duck race. His duck was named Dale Earnhardt Junior:)

Unfortunately, Dale lost to his neighbor Danica Patrick duck.   Apparently, everyone says that's the only way Danica could ever beat Dale :-)

Ricky had had it! He nursed for a bit and was out for the rest of the night. I have the only kids I know of that can sleep through rodeos and fairs with animals squealing in their ears.   I guess home is  a good place to practice blocking out the barnyard noises :-)

Goats and sheep, they are always the very favorite of the bunch.

This guys head came as high as my shoulders. Jake wanted to look at him dead in the eye (about 3 inches from his head) but when he rammed the gate Jakie thought twice.

3295 pounds. That's a lot of bull!!!  And even more bull S***!  Just kidding. It's only family that sees this :-) 

Though they tried, they couldn't talk me into getting any closer. Jake and Daddy braved getting closer to this gigantic animal and thrilled in the fact that he was only bound by a tiny rope.  He was castrated so he probably wasn't going to do anything but I didn't want to make the headline news the next day as the only person killed by a castrated bull in the last century.   With my luck, that's exactly what would've happened :-)

Ricky loves a variety of things that he saw during the fair. Among the favorite was a 500 pound sow's bottom, The enormous 3295 pound bulls nostrils and of course, the teeny tiny piggies that  squealed and squealed and squealed.  The very favorite of all time was when one of the sheep's pooped on one of the passers by. That made him laugh for about 10 minutes straight :-)

Piggies piggies piggies piggies piggies!  Oh how the little boys loved the piggies. They wanted to bring one home as a pet but since Loki already doesn't get enough attention we decided to say NO! They will think it's later :-) 

Jakie's face in the push needles. Actually, both are his faces.

Ricky space in the push needles.

Ricky's face and hands in the push needles.

Jake has just been learning how to play chess so this was a  particularly fun exibit

These boys love when grandma comes to the fair. She always takes time to explain the exibits and show them the funnest things!  They know if they've been good boys that grandma will usually get them a fun thing to take home at the end. Last year they got a light-up Jedi sword.  This year they got little light up slingshots that shoot light-up floaters into the air and slowly fluttered back down.  The boys were beyond thrilled!

Well, we didn't get to ride the rides this year since we got there so late but it was definitely a fun time to be out with family :-). Next year I think will definitely get some dipped funnel cake and give the boys a few bucks to do the rides of their choice.  It gives them something to look to forward to for next year.