Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Fair Time!!

This is the first post of our trip to California! There will be more to follow...
Every year we go to the fair and the kids just LOVE it. When I was little I was in 4-H and FFA from age 8-18 and showed pigs and cows at the fair every year. My brother still does this and it is great to get to watch him show his animals and have the kids experience the fair. Let me start this post by saying that this is a week long event and my family has a motor home there so we are there for the entire week! I was helping my dad with the chores on the dairy morning and night so I would get there about 10 and usually stay until 7 or 8 p.m. and then go home and feed the cows. Jaydon stayed most nights with my mom and Brandon and had a blast!


Jaydon with my brother Brandon who was the BEST helper! For a 17 year old he is a great help and the kids love him SO much!

Jazlynn had been dying to ride a pony so on the last day I let her and she was SO excited!!! Her ponies name was Fancy.


My mom and the girls riding the tram up to the motor home, we already miss "Red Head Grandma"!!


Janae at the free petting zoo that we went to everyday!!


Russell and Brandon making funny faces. I call Russell my "4th Brother" he is also a great help with the kids as was his girlfriend. (I used to babysit Russell, makes me feel SO old!)





Brandon showing one of his cows.





Jazlynn was so tired and on most days ended up looking like this!






The kids got to go on rides just one day and they had tons of fun!









Vroom Vroom








Jaz was getting tired but absolutely LOVED going on rides.











Slide!!!










Thsi is CLO the cow... she is an icon in Sonoma County!












2 cute girls that spun me around like crazy!!













Jaz really loved anything that had horses!
















My brother C.J. took Jaydon on some "big" rides which was a big help. Clearly he is a big kid.














Janae loved this ride, she went on it more than once!
















2 comments:

Monson Family said...

That looks just like what we did! Well, not the animal part...but the fair! I was excited to go! Ummmm but those swings terrify me!!! Good job! Such cute pictures!

Erica said...

Hey so what do you do with the cows after they are done being shown in the fair??? So did Jaydon help clean up the cows messes? Did he get a real Cowboy hat!!!

BJ