State Fair 2009

It's the end of September, and that means it's time for the State Fair! We had such a wonderful time last year that we couldn't wait to go back.

We started off with face painting. Last year, we made the fatal mistake of going to the fair the day before school pictures, and Jacks had a full green and black snake painted all over his face. So despite much scrubbing, he looks like he's wearing black eyeliner in his first grade class picture. Well, not this year, mister! We have more than a week before picture day. No problemo!

Jacks went with a scary scorpion.


And Cody liked last year's dragon so much, he got another one. :)


You might think that Luke got his face painted with CUTE, but nope! No paint here, folks! He was born that way!


Then we headed over to the boys' (including Daddy) favorite part, the car show. And just like Cody hoped and dreamed and had been talking about for weeks....BUMBLEBEE was there.


This was the official "Bumblebee Edition" of the 2009 Camaro, and it came complete with an Autobot badge and awesome Autobot tires.


Cody could have driven this car all day long. He LOVED it.


Basking in the Bumblebee afterglow. :)


Then Jackson went on this cool swing ride. He tried out a couple of kiddie roller coasters, too. It's so funny how cautious Jacks is about most things, but how much fun he has on "scary" rides.


It was pretty difficult to find a ride that Cody wanted to go on. He doesn't like anything that goes up or down, anything that turns, anything that's bumpy...I could go on. But as we were coming back through the rides on our way out, he spotted this little animal train. It goes around pretty slowly on a little track. Perfect! And the best part was that Luke could ride it, too.

Then we found these boats. At first, just Jackson and Cody were going to ride, but Luke was not about to be left out. So he rode in the middle, and Jacks held on tight to him. What a good big brother! And it was so great to see how much fun Cody had. He rode in FRONT (which is very brave for him) and he SMILED! Those of you who remember how much "fun" he had while doing the bungee trampoline over the summer know the face he wears while he's scared spitless but trying to enjoy something anyway. Here, he actually looked happy.

The weather was beautiful and Anthony has to travel later in the week, so it was great way to spend a family afternoon. Unfortunately, we didn't try out the fried butter...but there's always next year. :)