The State Fair always falls around the time of my moms birthday and we usually make it a family affair and attend. This year was especially fun because of Eli's age, and his new found obsession with animals and just social events all together. This year it worked out to where we actually went to the fair on my Mom's birthday, Sunday. It was hotter than hell, but we had fun! (There was actually a nice breeze, that made it tolerable, and a lot of the buildings are air conditioned!!) We had to take 2 cars because of all of us that went, and I had the 2 baby seats in my car....and my dad parked on the WRONG SIDE of the fair(in my opinion), making it so the animals were the last things for us to see...and Eli was sooo tired by then...he actually fell asleep at some point thru the barns...I forget which barn we were in! We had a really fun time though!
Then last night was $2 Tuesday. It was $2 to get in with a coupon and a lot of the food booths had samples of their food for $2. Let me tell you--->NOT WORTH IT. I will NEVER do that shit again! My GOODNESS! I promise that the lines were about 50-100 people deep. You should have seen the line for the fried vegtables and the elephant ears. I don't want anything that bad...ever. It was just too crowded. I promise every person from the state of Indiana was present at the fair last night. It was terrible. They can take my $8 next time(regular price to get in), because $2 Tuesdays is for the birds. Phew! Here are some pictures from both trips!! :)
Now these pictures are hilarious, of the boys in their shirts. My parents and I laughed at some of them because they just tell the story of these boys futures.....Eli will be laughing his rear off while Izaak is scared out of his mind. You'll see what I mean in a minute :) Love these little guys so much though, I could explode!
Heres what I was talking about. Imagine: Eli 18 and Izaak 17...Eli flying down a hill somewhere in a pickup truck and Izaak scared out of his mind saying "I am so telling Mom, when we get home" and Eli just laaaaughing all the way home :) Loves it.
Such a happy boy!
I have a picture of Eli just like this from last years fair...same shirt and everything...its somewhere, but I can't find it. I think it is on Zach's computer. :(
'Round here we like the "Green ones" (John Deere!) :)
My sisters made my parents stand in the "prom pose." Hilarious. Mom (obviously) wasn't feeling it. Dad was too funny!
This picture is a complete and total FAIL. hahahahaha. I wanted Eli to put his head into hole to be a cowboy. But he wouldn't do it and paytons head is sticking out of the top. so funny. I love random pictures like this.
Feedin the animals. He thought it was hilarious.
Payton with her boyfriend Cole and Morgan with her boyfriend JB
Eli with his AWESOME $5 hat I bought for him.
This was my most favorite game ever when I was a kid (
Please Note: I had no idea there were rides at the state fair until I was 14 years old. I don't know if I didn't pay attention, or if I didn't care...but I"m pretty sure my parents did all they could to make sure I thought they were broken or only teenagers could ride on them. So I had to enjoy the simple games...like the duck game! :) )
Dads 1st Basketball Attempt.....Fail-we moved on.
Attempt #2--fail...move on.
Attempt #3--success!! He won the boys some HUGE plush Dog. Eli likes it. Izaak doesn't care yet!
Tuesday night. Eli, Payton, Joelle and Eli's Frog :)
Winning "fissshy friiiiends fissshy friiiiiends"
This man was NUTS. Funny but NUTS. Everytime someone would get a ball into the bowl he would run over to them and start screaming "WHAT'D YOU WIN?!?! A FISSSHY FRIIIIEND!! FISSSHY FRIIIIEND" over and over and over again. It was hysterical. Payton and Joelle won 4 fish..and Payton also collected 2 from Sunday when we went. So...we went home with 6 fish that Eli wanted to carry the whole time. We had to keep telling him that they were going bed, so he would stop hitting the bags. hahahahaha.
more ducks!
I adore this picture of payton and eli. (below) she is the greatest aunt in the world to my boys and they ADORE HER. she is 14....and when the rest of the world is obsessed with their friends, she is obsessed with her nephews. somedays i couldn't make it without her. she is amazing, and i'm so thankful for her.
Eli loves ducks/goose/rabbits. So he really liked this barn.
So kinda pissed, because its the "Year of the Pig" and they have hardly any freaking pigs at the fair. But we found this big guy all the way in the back of the barn all alone. Eli thought he was fun. But he kept plugging his nose to tell us it stunk, and telling us to be quiet b/c he was laying down. so cute.
Do you love the fair E man?!
alll tuckered out! :) I can't wait until next year when Izaak will love it as much as Eli does now! :)
xoxo
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