Cass County Fair 2009

I'm not a big fan of the County Fair.

If I could go just one day I'd be fine.

With the boys having pigs up there tho

one day just doesn't cut it.

However one thing I do enjoy about the fair is walking

thru the buildings and seeing what everyone submitted.

I love looking at the rows and rows of vegetables

The shelves lined with canned goods and ribbons, always give you

a sense of "country"

We at least had fairly descent weather this year!

Caleb didn't place with his pig but that's ok. He enjoyed the experience

and it sold for a descent price so he was pretty happy.

I'm gonna toot my own horn here..toot toot...I won a blue ribbon

for my zuchinni bread. I was pretty excited concidering I never made it before!

We attended many of the free events just to fill our day in between tending with the pig and doing shows.

Carter thought the circus was neat, but especially enjoyed the dirt bike that drove in circles all

over this cage. And when the rider took their helmet off it turned out the driver was a girl!

Mine and Carter's mouths both dropped lol!! Girls rock!

Then there was Grandpa Cratchett-I think EVERY kid enjoyed him!

I don't know how many times we watched this show..but I could recite some of the skit for you if you ask! "Everybody say Hi Grandpaw"

And then there was the monster trucks! They stole the show!

Of everything we attended at the fair the boys were estatic over the trucks!!

It really was a neat show and I was glad we got to attend it!

Of course you know Carter and Shane are hardly apart in the summer!
So he attended with us! We were glad to have him along. Their faces when the trucks did "tricks" was priceless!!

And whats a fair without a carmel apple??!!

Carter did much better this year in showing the pig, but there is still room for improvement but that's ok that's what pee wee's is all about!!

Caleb did ALOT better in showing his pig this year!!

One thing he (finally) learned this year was you don't

pick a pig to bring to the fair by it's color lol

Caleb and Carter getting ready to show...

Caleb selling his pig at the auction.

And the dreaded "final feeding"..every year after the final feeding is the hardest part

for Caleb. Knowing that the pig is going to be loaded on the slaughter truck in a matter of hours really makes him sad...but that doesn't stop him from bringing pigs the following year lol..

Dan and I always feel bad for him and it tends to be a little hard on us watching Caleb break down.

In this photo Dan isn't laughing at Caleb he's laughing at me for taking the photo.

Caleb got the chance to see how fast and how many mph he threw a baseball..

lol..he was pretty happy with 49!

Shane loved the bumper cars! Carter was bummed because he's still too short to ride them!

So he opted to try his hand at the bull instead..I gotta say he did pretty good!!

So there you have it...that was our week at the county fair..

It's easy to be a martyr about things but I guess looking back on the photos, we

did have a pretty good time especially the boys.

THE COUNTY FAIR

Carter getting ready to show the pigs


This is when Carter realized the pigs were NOT coming home with us!

Caleb watering down and cooling off his pigs


Caleb got 6th in his class! Yea Caleb!!


Carter's blue ribbon. He is proud of that ribbon. He doesn't understand that all the kids in pee wee get a blue ribbon, but that's ok, I beleive he earned that ribbon since he was still a little scared of the pigs but went ahead and showed them anyways!


Grandpa to the rescue. To help cheer Carter up about the pigs not coming home, Grandpa bought Carter and Ice Cream cone, unfortunately he wasn't there for Caleb's melt down!!



Carter sitting in a tractor tire



The boys had a blast at the Cass County Fair.
Caleb had pigs of his own there, for the first time ever. He even got 6th place in his class! We were so proud of him, but I think he was even more proud of himself!!
And Carter got to show the pigs in the pee wee division.

The boys were so cute with their show tags on their back. Carter's was as big as he was lol..

As usual it was hot and expensive!
And poor Dan, he ended up with blisters on his feet from being up there all week in boots! I felt SO bad for him! He was truely miserable! But he's a good dad, and did his daddy duty.

Carter did not realize the pigs weren't coming back home with us. That was a disaster!
Then come the last day of the fair, Caleb decided he was more attached to is animals then he thought and he had a melt down and couldn't leave his pigs. Dan and I felt so bad for him!!
But we figure once the fair check rolls in he'll soon forget about how sad he is!

I've attached some of the photos of the fair.
Thanks for taking the time to come read up on us.