State Fair

Oh Emily would say this is a terrible picture of her and I shouldn't put it out here, but it's important! She took her picnic table to the state fair and got a blue ribbon!!!! So exciting!

The kids wanted to get into the big army trucks and pretend to drive. Carter kept asking them if they had been in a real war...

Casey was collecting tatoos...he got 8. And a funky hat from the John Deere booth.

Emily also took her working exhibit to the State Fair and received a Seal of Merit.

Sideways, I didn't realize that...Ugh! I read something somewhere that it helps to keep you younger if you learn something new. I really need to work on that with pictures!

It was a fast trip this time. We made it through the Varied Industries building and that's about it. The rest of the time was spent in the 4-H building! Emily makes us so proud!! Whatever will she come up with next year??

Randomness

When I stumbled into the bathroom this a.m. before 6:30 a.m. Al told me that I missed a rainbow without the rain and a really cool orange sky...

Turns out, I didn't miss it!! My lovely husband grabbed my camera and took some pics!!

This is random because the pictures are kinda out of order, hence random. We went to the State Fair yesterday for Carter to receive his award on a picture he entered int he open class!! He was one of 222 awards out of 4,000 entries and only 900 are even displayed!! Way to go Carter!! That is just awesome! Mom didn't even get displayed this year, but you did and we are soo proud!

(his is the one on top of his boots...)

I have another budding photographer. Emily thought this Pepsi can sitting on the tree was coo,l so I handed her my camera and let her snap away! How fun to have so many interested...Al's already thinking of entering something he took in the fair next year. The themed category is churches.

Back to the rainbow before the rain....and more orange sky.

Happy Monday All!

FAIR

This week has been our county fair and since Ems is in 4-H we've been working hard on last minute fair projects! Nothing like teaching my 10 year old how to procrastinate! Ha! We really had worked on and started them all ahead of time, we just left parts for the end! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Here she is with her firestarters and wooden shelves. She also made a rhubarb layered dessert.
Here's our Outstanding Junior!!!!! Her project Origami Bunnies would have gone to State Fair if she were old enough!! Today she is doing a working exhibit on them!! Go Emily!!
These next two are of Emily getting judged. She's seems very calm with talking to judges, etc. I'm glad she's not nervous!

This pic should have been first! Oh well. Here she is getting ready to approach the judges. We are very proud of her!!

I told Emily if she did her projects, that I would enter open class too. So I rushed around the last day and got some pictures backed and matted. I got some ribbons too. Fun!

The humidity has been hard on all the projects, but that is fair time, I guess!!

Hope you all are having fun this summer!

Fair

Our county fair was this week. This is Emily's first year in 4-H and she is a Little Clover. She took 3 projects to fair this time: a hanger for her backpacks, bags, etc., she made brownies, and a packet of things one should take hiking!! Little clovers all receive a green Participation ribbon for their projects until they are in 4th grade and then they can go for blue, red or white. Emily and her Dad worked on this hanger and she decorated it with butterflies because that is a theme in her room already.
I think she had fun, but one thing Al and I aren't teaching very well is to not put things off until the last minute!! She does come by this trait honestly, but it's hard on her and makes her upset about working on things so next year we are going to be prepared ahead of time. Besides, that's what it's all about anyway. Learning how to set goals and accomplish them!
BTW - Her club won 3rd place overall for their booth decorations!!!