A Trip to the Good Ol' Pima County Fair in

Sunday was an adventure. The afternoon was beautiful so we drove about 45 minutes SE to the Pima County Fair.

The kids are watching the Sea Lion show. Their expressions sum up how I felt too.... SEA LIONS? At a Fair? In Arizona? Something strange about that.

It was a mildly entertaining show. Halfway through, the boys said, "Let's go find some animals."

So we found some cute goats, and sheep, chickens and pigeons and bunny rabbits.

Cam was SO PROUD to be feeding this little baby goat all by himself.

This is interesting to me.... a club.... for pigeons? I thought they were like the rodents of the sky?

BBQ Corn. Cam felt EXACTLY the way I did!

Carousel and Corn. My 2 favorites.

For some reason, Carter always wants to ride the rides but as soon as we go to get on he gets all scared. Cam is tough and pretty much goes along for any ride. Here I am basically holding Carter on the ride. He lightened up once it started but the anticipation is torture for him.

Carter did like the helicopter ride from beginning to end. With just a little nervousness to start. Cam decided he didn't want to ride.

Watching Carter on the helicopter. Cam was being so silly.

And then the sun set and we were on our way home.

To give you a glimpse of Tucson and it's County Fair attendants I will leave you with this little story.

As we were walking out, there was the usual police in uniform patrolling the grounds. A woman and her 2 kids walked by.

I overhear her say to her children, "Hey, that's the cop that arrested your Dad last week!"

This town....

Silly Cam

Camden has been hilarious lately. Like belly laugh, tears in the eyes, down right funny.

Here's his "look at the button on my belly" shot.

"Sumfthing feels weird" - Camden

A recent conversation that went something like this...

Camden: Momma, I got nippos.

Me: Yes you do.

Camden: Why?

Me: Not sure.

Camden: I got two a dem. Got two a dem Nippos. Right HERE!

I'm Mistaruple...

Yesterday, Carter awoke at 5:am with a case of the pukes. Which continued until about 11am. he kept saying he was mistaruple. I didn't understand. Then I said, "This is MISERABLE" and he said "Yeah that's what I said...Mistaruple." He is better today, 100% full force boy again.

Sleeping on the couch yesterday. He wanted juice but it just wouldn't stay down, so he asked me to fill the cup with ice so he could just hold it. Then he fell asleep like this. He told me he wanted to sleep sitting up so the throw up would stay down.

Look up the word "pathetic" in the dictionary you get...

pa·thet·ic

   [puh-thet-ik]

–adjective

1.

causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.

and this is the picture....

Happy Easter

Wednesday, Carter came home from Preschool with the usual crafts and then there was this....

They made an egg out of clay and the teacher took their picture to attach at the top. She said, "He just kept smiling like that...I tried 4 times....." I think it's hilarious.

Saturday night, coloring eggs.

Snacking on Goldfish while they "died" the eggs. Carter wanted to know why the eggs died. I tried to explain the difference between die and dye.....with no success.

About 3:20 am Easter morning right before I went to bed. Yes, I know I was up way too late. Jeff stayed up too, to help get ready for the big lunch the next day.

Bright-eyed and bushy tailed 7am in the morning. This refers to the subject of the photo, NOT the photographer.

Cam came strolling out about 20 minutes later and looked through his basket.

Then they disappeared, this is where I found them reading their new Easter books.

Laughing up a storm.

We went to meeting, then had company come over.

The Lennox Family.

Another shot of us.

The Nielson Family.

I can't believe the twins will be ONE in 2 weeks.

Bill and Trenton

Emma and Sara

Cam and his loot.

The hunt is on. We filled 24 eggs each for the kids, each kid had their own color. Carter was purple, Cam was orange. This made it easy to give all the kids a fair amount of eggs and each one got roughly the same amount of candy.

"I found one!"

He was showing me his bucket was getting full.

The funny thing about this picture is that he's not using his Easter basket. He is using the bucket he totes all his cars around in. And Yes, all his cars are at the bottom of the bucket.

He can't leave them for 1 minute.

Carter paused for 1 second so I could take a picture, he was quite serious about getting his eggs.

Miss Emma

Some of the desserts.

Lunch

Kids checking out their loot.

The boys playing with Andrew. Or maybe we should say the boys using Andrew as a jungle gym.

Bryce, Trenton and Carter

Renee and Emma giving loves.

It was a good day.

One little thing from the day before. Carter brought home from preschool a little basket from his teacher, in it was a cross. He told me that "some mean soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross." I told him that was right. He said he was "sad because that was hurting Jesus." I agreed wanting to hear where this was going. Then he said, "Well, I'm going to get big and strong and then I will get Jesus off of that cross."

Melt my heart.

Easter

Just a couple to tide you over.

I found them reading this morning in our bed. They were giggling up a storm.

Coloring eggs last night.

Dessert table