Hendricks County Fair

For those of you who don't know, the Hendricks County Fairgrounds are right behind my house. I can see the lights of one of the parking fields through the trees around the pond. The Fair was just last week. The second night of the fair they always do fireworks. We were able to sit our back patio and watch them. They were pretty good. The finale was awesome! And we didn't even have to fight the traffic!Last Thursday we actually went to the fair. This year we decided to walk (saved the $5 parking fee). I had clocked it once; it was only about 2 miles. K girl got to ride in the stroller and C walked with me. He actually did pretty good about not complaining. Since we (me) are still on a penny-pinching kick, we decided to just get desserts instead of dinner and dessert like we usually do. The same with the rides. We'll wait and do that at the state fair. There's more choices there anyways. The kids got milkshakes and Daddy got a funnel cake. I ended up eating a little of all three.

We walked around and saw all kinds of animals and 4H projects. It was fun!We also watched a "logging demonstration" Oh dear! Those guys humor was horrible! Not off color per se, but lame! It was hot walking around but not unbearable. I can't wait for the state fair though. That ends up being almost an entire day, with lots of good food and much more to see. I'm going to count that day as a field trip for C since we will have already started school. Why not? Crazier things get counted as a school day for the public schools. That fair comes up in about a month. Stay tuned for that post.

I read in the paper later that this cow sold for over $5000 at the auction. Nice artwork, don't ya think?

Best Friends-Worst Enemies

Can you guess what this post is about?

My kids can fight worse than cats and dogs. My mom has commented that she doesn't remember us (me, my bro, and sis) fighting this bad at this age. Both of my kids can lash out at each other when they are very mad. But funny thing, they've never really gotten into a "fist fight"---YET. I'm waiting. (I think K will beat her brother up)

But yet on the flip side, they can be best of friends. Sometimes they are so love-y with each other. I will catch them working well together or snuggling together. Those are awesome moments to see. If I can, I try to get their picture. There have been times that I've had them "re-stage" the love-y moment so that I can get the picture (Is that pathetic, or what?) But I'll never tell which pictures those are!

So here are the pictures that I have of them being Best Friends. I haven't taken any pictures--yet--of them being Worst Enemies.

I will blog.......

Tomorrow! Good night all!

Feed your brain!

One of the reading programs that C was in this summer was through Half Price Books. It was called "Feed Your Brain." To receive a reading reward ($3 gift card), he had to read at least 15 minutes per day for 5 days each week. He had already remeemed some of his gift cards and today we went and redeemed more. He had a total of 4 ($12). He shared one with his sister and he used 2. So he still has 1 more plus there are 2 weeks left in the program. Between the two kiddies, they got 12 books and 2 bookmarks. I thought it very interesting what type of books each picked. K picked mostly Disney books (Pinocchio, Bambi, Aladdin, Tarzan). C picked more "educational" type books (Bees and Wasps, Earth, Bats, Nebraska, New Mexico, Virginia). I think he is going to be exactly like his Daddy and enjoy learning. Both of them retain facts (sometimes useless information; love you honey!) very well. I'm excited for C to start school (Aug 4); I think he's really going to enjoy this year.

We also went to Wal Mart and got the kiddies bike helmets. It was sad that we waited this long. Once we get them all adjusted, I'll get pix of them in their helmets and on their bikes.

K also spent some birthday money. She picked out a little doggie in a purse. I think she really wanted it for the purse. Next time we'll just go look at purses. She's a girl (so unlike her mommy--although a friend had a really cute pink Coach purse at church last night. I liked that one)

In all our shopping, what did I get????? Draino!!! for our bathtub. It keeps stopping up. Maybe this time will fix it. Oh I did get coffe at DD--with a coupon; does that count?

This post dedicated to.......

Momma

For those of you that read her blog, you know how much she hates laundry! I saw this picture in a magazine and it made me think of her.

The last time I did laundry, I took a picture of all the laundry on my bed. I only have 2 kids, but that pile can get pretty big! Unusually this pile got folded and put away same day.