going to the state fair

We took the kids to the state fair on Tuesday. It was a good day to go-nice weather, not too crowded (a lot of schools have gone back already, but not us) and $2.00 admission, midway rides and assorted foods! It was a rough start-Marcus DID NOT want to go! He complaned and whined and actually cried about having to go to the fair. Too bad, we're all in this together and he had to go. Guess what? He had fun-they all had a good time. I took a ton of pictures and probably posted most of them. Here we go...

We walked through the cow barn and the chicken/geese/rabbit barn. Our kids are "townies" and don't get to see farm animals up close too often. We had to get pictures taken in the second barn-first Cale and Ewan (look up) and then Ewan and Liam (look down).

$2 midway rides was a big plus. We bought tickets and let the boys each pick two rides. Marcus, Ewan and Liam (with Andy) went through this climbing house.


Wait, is this boy smiling? Oh, he's must be glad he came to the fair!

Here come Andy and Liam down the climbing house slide!

Cale and Ewan (and Andy) rode this ride next. They had a blast! Liam was very upset that he could not go on this ride with them.

If you look really close, you can see the guys-they are the only ones on the ride.

Liam got to ride this ride next. It was went in a circle and the bees went up and down. Liam was very happy :-).

The last ride was the kiddie coaster. The three big boys rode it. We kind of had to convince Cale to ride, but I think he was glad he did. They all rode with big smiles on their faces and even rode with their hands up in the air for most of it. Liam was unahppy, again, being too small to ride this ride.



Kella slept. She pretty much slept the entire time except when I woke her up to nurse her (yea! for the breastfeeding stations). There was a scale where I fed her. I weighed her-14 pounds.

After eating state fair corn dogs, we went to the FFA building. The boys got suckers=dessert, played in a play area and fed some animals.

Our last stop was to the DNR building for some target practice and climbing on a snow mobile and 4 wheeler. Even Liam got to sit behind a gun. I'm not sure if he actually fired a shot, but he got to be one of the big kids=happy.