We Went to the Fair!

After all this time living in this county, we finally made it to the county fair.  We even ate fair food:  corn dogs for dinner and a giant cinnamon roll for dessert.  The family of one of Grace's art class classmates ran the cinnamon roll booth.  Apparently they travel from county to county as a family, selling their yummy cinnamon rolls, and earn an honest living for their family.  I admire their hard work but am certainly thankful we can stay put.

We admired some of the exhibits.

We admired some of the 4-H animals.

We posed for silly pictures.

And we tried the Footsie-Wootsie, the best $.25 you'll ever spend at our county fair.

We decided that riding any of the carnival rides was too crowded and too expensive.  The carnival section gives me the creeps anyway.  And when it was all over, we came home and washed our extremely dirty feet.

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More from the Middle of July

These are the shirts that the kids chose to wear on the first day of school.  I sense a theme here, don't you?

No words here, just love!

Grace took an art class during the mornings for one week of July.  One of those days, the boys and I ran errands that were for Jonathan, but Benjamin was a very good sport.

We took advantage of JCPenney's annual kids' glasses sale.  I can only guess how many hundreds of dollars this discount has saved us over the years.  He can still squeeze into tween glasses, so we keep using the discount!

And, Benjamin enjoyed it.

This is the model Jonathan chose.

We also went to Staples for JUST the right pencil pouch for Jonathan.  Benjamin got into a little mischief there.

You never know where Lego minifigs will show up or what they will do at our house!

Jonathan began taking guitar lessons this summer since he enjoyed his 6th grade guitar class so much AND since our neighbor handed down this electric guitar to him.  What a gift!

I can't remember what was happening here, but it looks like I let them watch something before swim practice.  I can't remember why they were on the stools that go to the island!

Thank you, Ms. Olivia, for the haircuts!

And, we still play with Play-Doh occasionally.

The Beginning of the Middle of July

Even thought swimming kept us extremely busy, we still had our carefree moments.

And even though I am partial to real books, Benjamin loves reading on the Kindle.  Even when it's charging, apparently!

Grace built her best buddy and the buddy's 4H bunny.

Our neighbor who delivers organic produce to us out of the goodness of his heart is a huge blessing to us!

Lego discussion...

and I can't remember what Grace's animals are doing here...

but she is still adorable when she sleeps.

Trying out the old Cranium game even though the sculpting dough has crystallized.

A Visit to Wendy's

Lunch at Wendy's was on the kids' summer bucket list.  Oh, MY, their cross-eyed talents are amazing!!!

Independence Day!

The most important thing about this Independence Day was that Jeff was NOT in the hospital getting his appendix out like he was last year.  That was the portion of the year when I was not blogging, but I hope to go back and catch up on it at some point!

We spend part of our day at Nate and Kelsey's, and these are the strawberries I brought.  We simply cannot buy strawberries from the grocery store ever again.  The nearby fruit stand has spoiled us for life.

Here are some pictures of what we did before we went to Nate and Kelsey's...

And here's what we did after we left Nate and Kelsey's.  There are not pictures of it, but we also watched as much of the local big fireworks display as we could from our neighborhood.  Home fireworks are so lame in our state, but the kids still love them.

The best part of the day was having Jeff with us.  We really missed him last year when I made fireworks happen on my own and we could only visit him in the hospital.  We're so thankful for not health events this year.  Happy Independence Day!

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