Fair Day 2014

As Amity said, "It should be called 'The Fun'."

 We let the girls each pick out two rides at the Midway.  Amity likes to spin and is getting more or more fond of roller coasters.

 Dennis is more than pleased to haveto accompany her!

 Vivien gets dizzy easily and even though, she is getting tall enough for the bigger kid rides...

 she still likes to take it nice and easy!  All she wanted was to sit in this sparkly pink tractor and ride around several times.

 My favorite three monkeys!

We coerced convinced Vivien to ride the baby rollercoaster.  Dennis was going to ride with her and then we realized that she was tall enough to ride on her own.  Amity had picked a really lame car ride for her 2nd choice, so we let her go as Vivi's mini-chaperone on the rollercoaster.  They started out with all smiles.

 Viv's grip was getting tighter and tighter.  Amity said she had one hand on the handle and her other hand patting Vivien and telling her, "It's okay!  It's okay!"

 This was pretty much Vivi's face during most of the ride.  She takes after her mom...just wanting it to be over!

 Vivi gave the ride a "thumbs down".

 Little Hands on the Farm...you make me so sentimental for these little faces from the past...

State Fair 2013

Back to this year...

 This is really the cutest thing.  I love the pretending and that they both still play along!

 Sweet Amity was one inch too tall to ride the tractor trikes this year.  Thankfully, she was okay with it.  Her mom was close to throwing a fit!

And Vivi seems to be perfecting a pageant head-tilt and wave in all of her fair pics.

 Love it!  The workers play along so seriously and thank the "farmers" for all their hard work.  The girls earned their farm buck and were thrilled to "buy" bags of Cheetos (V) and Oreos (A) from the store.

 There were Fletcher's Corny Dogs to be eaten.

 And enormous butter sculptures to be admired.

 More time with these two in the exhibit halls

 Visions of our future flashing before our eyes (11+ years to go)

 (9+ years to go)

 Big Tex 2.0

Funnel Cake was devoured. Unfortunately, the girls like it now so we found that it didn't last as long between the two of us as before.

 We saw a camel and Amity remembered the story we just read in the Just So Stories about "How the Camel Got His Hump".

 Vivien pointed to these and matter-of-factly said, "That's an African-Crested Porcupine!"  I looked at the sign and she was right BUT she can't read.  I asked her how she knew and, of course, she said, "I saw them on Wild Kratts!"

 We did some toe-tapping to the Celtic group, the Kildares.

 And we ended with the pig races.

We came home, ate dinner, and uploaded our pictures to the computer.  Dennis made some caramel popcorn and the four of us sat on the couch and looked at Fair pictures from previous years.  The girls said, "Sitting on the couch, eating popcorn, looking at pictures, and snuggling...this is the best day ever!"  I agree!