We Love the State Fair

Every year, the TJH Band, Choir and Orchestra perform at the Arizona State Fair. We love the good excuse to spend the day there!

Isaac really enjoyed the Band music this time. He was dancing up and down the aisles, Napoleon-like, and entertaining everyone within sight.

We had met a balloon-man on the way in and the lightsabers made decent drumsticks! (Don't you love the little monkey on Noah's shoulder, too?)

After taking advantage of the "Happy Hour" $1 food items (frybread, hotdogs, and snow cones) we tried to fit in as many $1 rides as we could before 6pm. This was the hands-down favorite: motorized bumper boats!

Then we had some quiet downtime riding mini-tractors and roping cows while we waited for Jeremy to join us after work.

Too-Tired Teenager Spencer had a nap on a bale of hay.

Crazy-Roping Jacob finally roped his cow!

Noah was our only son brave enough to go into the petting zoo and feed the animals. He did a good job figuring out the best strategy!

And Isaac. Oh Isaac. He was an eye-level witness to where the poop comes out of a llama and was fascinated from then on. I was laughing so hard I had tears, and so was the petting-zoo supervisor! I probably have ten pictures of Isaac doing his "inspections".

And then the Fun House! The boys had each earned three free ride tickets through the Fair's reading program and they all went together through the Fun House and had nothing BUT fun!

Surfer Dude Noah!

Spencer "going with the flow".

And, at the end of the day, Noah made us all sick to watch him on this thing! That's really him, spinning and swinging and holding on for dear life (in my perspective). Good times at the Fair. Good times.