Utah State Fair

I am a dork, but I have to admit I love going to the Fair. I love to see how excited the boys get about the animals. I love seeing all the weird people that come out to these things. I love to see what new things they let people put in and consider it a talent and judge them on it. I really think the sculpture made out of butter is really cool. I like looking at as many booths as my husband and kids will let me. I guess I just like the fair. So of course this year we went & it was a lot of fun. We tried to go after school one day and it was raining like crazy. So later that week we checked McKay out early and did not send the other two boys to school. We stopped and grabbed lunch on the way, and when we got there it was empty. It was so nice not to fight crowds and to actually be able to see the things we wanted to see. It is crazy how excited my kids get about seeing a goat, or a cow. Are they really that much of "city boys" that they think it is a novelty to see a cow. Ryan went as far as to ask some man sitting by the cows if he could pet his cow. It was very cute! They loved seeing the animals.






The boys like the fishing pond they have set up ever year too. It always amazes me how fast you can get a fish on your hook at this thing. McKay this year even caught a catfish. The boys thought it was way cool looking. Parker's fish got off the hook and was flapping around on the ground & he wanted to pick it up and pet it.







This year at the fair they had some fun shows to watch. They had a shark show, a bear show, and a gator show. The only complaint is that they were not very long. But the boys enjoyed watching the people interact with the animals. I only took pictures of the gator show because it had to have been the best one.




We told the boy at the beginning of the summer that if they did not ask to go on rides at the summer fest, strawberry days, or the fair that we would take them to lagoon. So we had no plans of doing rides while at the fair. But Grandma Kathy give the boys some money to do this jumping thing and Preston and McKay thought it was way fun and got way high. Preston even did some flips while in the air. The little boys took there money and decided to do a pony ride instead. Ryan thought he was so cool that he could do it with no hands. While Parker just kept saying "look Momma I am a cowboy!" It was a great way to end the carnival.