Fair time

 Our county fair is practically down the block from our house, so we couldn't resist stopping over for some fun.  We checked out the 4-H exhibits, weaved through my cousin's cool MAZE, avoided the racing pigs!, rode some rides with our free tickets from the library,

 & checked out the animals.

 The next day I brought out the kids' first entries for Open Class.  They each did some artwork & had a lot of fun.  Here are Rebecca's masterpieces... the one with the rainbow & bird nest in the tree earned a 3rd place!

 Teresa's were still rather abstract.  ;)

Andrew really took some time on his work. The top one is a watercolor of our town which he used some really unique techniques on that included using salt & rubber cement. 

 Back to survey our work!  (The awesome butterfly in the background is our friend Jacob's, so we decided to get all three of their works in the picture.)

 Thanks to standing in the long line for the bumper cars a few evenings before, which was right near the exit, two different families passed on their remaining couple of tickets to us!  So the kids each enjoyed one more ride.

It was such a great experience to submit entries for the fair & then go see what others had done.  They came away with MANY ambitious ideas.  :)  Guess we'll see what next year's fair holds!