'Tis the Season...

to go to the state fair.

This is one of only a couple of pictures I actually got of the Dude. He wasn't very cooperative. This is on one of the kid's favorite rides - The Gravitron. It is one of the small list that I won't ride. My face always hurts after I ride it so I just wait patiently outside.

The Chick ended up waiting to get started a couple of times.

And of course we have to hit the fun houses.

Got him this time. Hee hee.

Sometimes, I think they belong behind bars but this time she was just posing nicely for me.


The highlight of our evening, however, was seeing this.

A good friend of ours enters a piece in the fair just about every year and has won several ribbons. Her daughter is probably about my daughter's best friend. This year, the Chick went to spend the night at her house where her daughter was working on her own piece to enter for the second or third year.

So our friend got something for the Chick to do too. She offered suggestions and showed her how to do it correctly. She even told us that if we got it back to her (when it was finished) in time she would enter it in the competition for the Chick's age group when she took hers in as well.

The Chick worked hard on it and got it back to her in time. She didn't really expect to place though since it was her first time.

So imagine our surprise when we found it sitting with a FIRST PLACE ribbon on it! She got first place!

I'm really, really proud of her. Even MJ (our friend) said she did an excellent job for her first time. What a way to top off the night!