The State Fair

It's fall in Texas, and that means time for the State Fair! Ahh, the state fair. Where else can you get fried peanut butter and jelly while you shop for a hot tub and look at butter sculptures? The big thing this year was chicken fried bacon. The smell was incredible. We opted to not try any.

It was rainy today, but we went anyway, and had a great time! We started with the petting zoo, which has mostly unusual petting zoo animals like giraffes and zebus. Do you know what a zebu is? I didn't know either until today. They look like cows with humps. Aidan and Gresham had fun feeding the goats.

The pigs were my favorite. Aren't they cute?

After the petting zoo, we went to a dog show where some mangy looking dogs that were from an animal rescue caught frisbees and even jumped into a swimming pool. Sorry, I'm not a big dog show fan...

Then we exchanged our money into "state fair currency" and rode a couple rides. Jordan says that if you want to make money, it's always best to change the currency so that no one thinks about how much they are spending.

Here is Aidan after riding the beloved bumper cars! He has waited a whole year for this!

Here's Gresham after his Dukes of Hazzard ride ended. He kept saying "more car! more car!" Can you tell he is turning 2 this week?

After the rides, we did a fun farm activity. The kids got to walk through a "farm" and do different farm chores. Then at the end, they sold their farm products and got paid a dollar to spend in the little shop. Gresham got crackers and gave them to me. :-)

First we got corn to "feed" the animals with.

Gresham really liked the basket they gave him to carry his stuff in. Now I know what to get for his birthday!

At the end, they got to pedal these fun tractors!

Gresham and I went home after the farm thing, but Mom, Dad, Jordan, and Aidan stayed. They went to a bird show and heard a bird sing "Old MacDonald," and bought funnelcakes and ice cream.

Sorry you missed it, Grandma and Grandpa Dees!! Jordan ate a corny dog for you and got some Pedro's tamales.

**Note: There are less pictures of Aidan because he was constantly running from thing to thing!