Thursday, October 15, 2009

Eastern Idaho State Fair

One of our favorite fall activities is going to the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot! We enjoy all of the fun and festivities. We spent the day with Emily and Ronan and my mom and Kendrik and Ashlyn. Ashlyn was baptised that morning and then went spent the afternoon and evening at the fair! Always more fun when you add extended family! Here is a glimpse of our fun day!

One of the kids' favorite parts of the fair is of course looking at all the animals! We stopped to watch these horses get a bath and we all laughed and laughed at the size difference! Two tiny miniature horses next to these massive work horses! So funny!

Savannah, Audrey, Grace and their cousin Ashlyn.

The girls all lined up watching cows being milked. Looks like it must be absolutely thrilling huh?!? They were more interested than their faces reflect! Really!

They all thought it was so funny that this little goat climbed right up in his feed bag! They came to the conclusion he must be REALLY hungry!

My handsome little guy! I am seriously in love with this baby! He loved all there was to see at the fair! He is so cute because he has fun little personality that is so expressive so we all know when he is having so much fun! Obviously the adverse is true - we know when he is not having fun too, however that doesn't happen too offen!

Ashlyn, Ronan, Audrey, Savannah, Jonas and Kendrik - where's Grace? She is the only one missing from the picture, she was running a quick errand with Larren at the time. But I just have to give a quick note of praise for all these kiddos - they were absolutely perfectly behaved, it was such a wonderful day, we all had so much fun spending time together!

According to my girls this is the sole reason for attending the fair! COTTON CANDY! YUMMY!! They love this stuff, as I know I did when I was a kid! I love their little sticky faces and fingers - evidence of a really delicious treat!

We were in the petting zoo and this Praying Mantis came out of nowhere and landed on Jonas! Jonas loved watching it climb all over him - Larren finally removed it - but it was on him for quite awhile! Jonas just squealed!

Grace feeding a goat - according to her it was "pretty slobbery and tickly!" This is my favorite look - she is loving it and having fun!

Kendrik! Just had to post my handsome nephew! He turned 11 the week after this picture was taken! This is truly one amazing kid! Love you Kendrik!

Jonas loved the petting zoo - he loves animals so this was exciting to so close and get to touch them!

Kendrik and Ronan riding a tractor!

Jonas playing on some sort of farm equipment - he loved all the big machinery! Such a boy!

Ahhhh! The perfect end of the day, exhausted happy kids! Here is Jonas snuggling his blankie and sucking his thumb - needless to say he fell sound asleep on the way home as did his sisters!

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