YEE-HAW

Wow, I am incredibly behind on my blogging. I guess our summer has been pretty fun and busy. I will attempt to catch up on a few things. The weekend after the 4th of July was the Madison county fair. We have never been able to go since the boys have been old enough because our family vacation usually falls on that weekend. So this year we made the trip so the kids could experience a county fair. I always loved going to the fair and remember that as one of the highlights of my summer. Robb on the other hand does not like fairs, but he was a good sport and tagged along.
We met my mom, sister and nephew there on Friday morning and walked through all the
4-H exhibits, the animals, petting zoo, and booths before it got unbearably hot. The kids had fun eating food on a stick and getting to see all the animals. Abby Loved the bunnies! If we weren't so anti animals, besides dogs she should probably have a bunny. We headed home mid afternoon to let the kids rest up and cool down.
Later that night, my mom and I took Bryce and Caleb back to the fair to go to the rodeo. The kids had never been to a rodeo, so both my mom and I were very excited to see their reaction to it. We had talked it up quite a bit so they were excited.
Bryce and Caleb did great sitting still and watching and they loved it! They really showed how much of city kids they really were with some of their comments. After the first team roping when the calf got roped, thrown on the ground and wrapped up they both thought the cowboys were being really mean to the calf. So the next calf came out and made it all the way to the gate without getting roped. Bryce said "the calf knows that he is going to get roped, thrown on the ground and tied up so he ran extra fast this time." My mom and I couldn't quit laughing. They enjoyed watching the crazy clowns and about barrel racing time they were antsy for the bulls. We went and got a snack and hit up the bathrooms and got back in time for the bulls. The boys watched the bulls very intently! They seemed genuinely concerned about the cowboys safety after each one fell off. All in all a great time.
My mom had promised them that they could ride a couple carnival rides so we did that too. They rode the kiddy motorcycles, the kiddy cars and then my mom and I took them on the big ferris wheel. They loved the carnival and I felt bad that I didn't let them do more rides but wow carnival prices are ridiculous these days. Bryce got pretty nervous on the ferris wheel when they started letting people off and we were at the top. He was wondering how the heck we were going to get down. They boys and I got home super late but it was a fun night. I am glad that I got to take them to do something that I really enjoyed when I was a kid.