State Fair Time!

We really like the State Fair! Does that seem weird? It is way overpriced, the food is all deep fried, the toys are expensive and cheap, and don't get me started on the "carnies". People watching can be... interesting/funny/shocking/repulsive/entertaining/ inspiring. And sometimes it is all of it at once (is that too unchristian to say?). But we love to go see the animals and the animal shows and we love going to the craft building and seeing all the things people do and make (the castle made out of marbles all glued together. Maria Payne had a lot of cool jarred food entries that were pretty amazing). We spend most of the time saying "Oooh oooh- come look at this!!!"
The kids spotted a baby bear cave (never mind that it is an empty shrine meant for a Saint. Is this just a New Mexico thing to have it as permanent part of landscaping?). They did their best growls for us.

Wesley doing what he calls his "yogo pose". I don't know how this started but it cracks me up every time.

We don't do the rides but the kids really have liked the rubber band bouncing trampoline thing and this time Luke wanted to do it too!
We had to laugh at the broken bones part. "Ooh ya, I did just break my femur. Maybe I better not try this one."

The last couple of years we have decided to save our money and our calories for the Frontier. Can you see Wesley slumped over on my belly? (A side note; Allie is wearing her tie-die shirt that she made that week in Gardening Club. She loves all her clubs. They were going to pull weeds this past week but it was raining and so they ended up inside. She said she got to hold and pet a bunny and that it was AWESOME!)

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2009

I have been wanting to share this since last year. In her kindergarten class they kept journals. They were to draw a picture and then write about it. Most of the time if was just a jumble of letters that they would interpret for the teacher. As the year went on most of the kids got better and better. This is Allie's picture and sentence (notice how the word "fer" [fair] got broken up onto two lines) but it is almost legible and the drawing... well, that is pretty much what the rubberband trampoline thing looks like don't you think? This was in September, a month after kindergarten had begun, and this what got her teaching thinking that perhaps she was "different".
Allie jumping last year!

And last but not least, this is dedicated to Aunt Erin! We got a shot of her favorite rap star- Magic J and the Nastyboyz! He was there, in person, once again, same booth, same location playing the same 2 songs with the same music video showing the same "hired female help", again. Too bad we were out of cash. Darn.
As for Wesley, he avoided Magic J and the trampoline...