State Fair

We finally made it to State fair yesterday. Lainey was so excited to see the cows up close as opposed to driving by in the car yelling COW!

Of course you can't go to state fair a not take a ride down the giant pig.

Or watch the famous pig races!

The kids loved playing in the corn pile. I admit, I LOVED the corn pile too, when it was time to leave it was much easier to get the corn off them as opposed to leaving a sand pile. 

Maybe I need to change my sandbox over to a corn box...Just a thought :)

Sleeping out back

While cleaning out the garage Yesterday Steve came across our old tent. He asked the boys if they want to have a camp out out back and of course they said YES!

So we set it up and pulled out our pillow mats we had made this winter so they would have something soft to sleep on. Next came the piles of pillows to rest their heads on and blankets to keep warm with. The night began with Steve, Michael, Landon and Mackenzie in the tent. After about 30 minutes Mackenzie joined me and Lainey back inside.

My 3 boys made it all night in the tent. Now we shall see when they start asking to do it again.

Fly!

We went to bed thinking we were going to give Geo Caching another go at this morning with a coworker of mine, but when that fell thru we opted to head down to the lakefront for the air show

We have never been there before, so we weren't sure what to expect.

 

At 10 am the streets were packed full, but we quickly found a spot on top of a hill and settled in to watch the action.

Within minutes the first set of planes were flying above us doing all kinds of tricks.

We then made our way down to the lake for a better look, but quickly learned there were too many people  and trees to see much of anything, so back up the big hill we went. We watched a few more planes race then retreated back to the car.

 

Don't like your bed?

Ah to be a kid and be able to sleep in any spot and not wake up with an achy  back. A few weeks ago we took the rail off the front of Lainey's crib since she was having too much fun climbing over it.

Some nights she stays in her bed and has no problems going to sleep. Other times, like last night she gets right back up after we put her down and starts playing with toys.

Believe it or not, but her room was clean when she went to bed, but tonight she felt the need to pull some extra sheets out of the dresser, throw some books on the floor as well as empty out a toy basket. I never know what I'm going to find the next morning until I open up the door.

Clearly so was so exhausted after making a mess that she passed out cold on the floor among it all.

But hey who could stay mad at a peaceful sleeping baby.

Candy!

We headed up north 2 weekends ago to my grandparents cabin for a little R&R. There is one place that is always on the top of our list to visit.

The good old candy store.

Everyone grabs their own basket and makes a run for the candy! Even Miss Lainey got to join in the fun this year, and oh how she loved that little basket.

There is so much candy to choose from, I think they could spend all day in there.



This year they had a limit to 3 items of candy each. It was fun to watch them pick one out, and then put it back as they knew they had to choose wisely.

In the end we made it out with NO complaints of their allotted amount of candy, and very happy kids for the car ride home.

Good Mooning

Guess who forgot to put the magic duct tape on a diaper today!

 

Guess who likes to air out her bum!

Oh well, Happy Friday!

Annoyed

I tried changing my header picture to a new one I took this week but am getting extremely frustrated that I can't get it to work right. I can get it to upload and it shows up, but it only shows up really small or really big.

So when I gave up and tried to put the old one up, I can't get that one to work the way I had it either.


Grrr!