Fair Time Once Again!

It's that time of year again, Iowa State Fair!  This has become quite a family tradition for us, we've schlepped our kids six hours west three years in a row now and each year I'm happier than the year before that we did it.  Maggie, and now Catie, have a BLAST visiting with their family and checking out all the fair has to offer.  This year the big draw was the rides!  Maggie went on the bumper boats, the swings, the carousel, the cars, the giant slide, the sky glider, and a flying elephant... multiple times.  Catie's favorite was definitely the horses, and the goats, and the cows, pigs, sheep, and every other animal (living or plastic) the fair had to offer.  Catie even got to go on her first pony ride.... when she saw her big sister was going to ride one her cheery face (oohh!  horsey!) fell through the floor and I just couldn't let her watch from the sidelines.  She was soooo excited to be sitting on the pony, it was totally worth the five bucks to see her ear to ear grin.  More photos at Picasa.