This past week has been fair week around here. Our church has two food booths at our fair. They raise funds for the year for our children & youth ministries. For the past 10 years of our lives Josh & I have had fair week dedicated to working the food booths. The shifts are long & the weather hot, but it's all worth it to see the programs, trips, & projects our kids & young people are able to do at church.
At the 2011 Western Montana Fair Josh's dream of our booth serving giant turkey legs came true. Our children's pastors jumped right on board when Josh mentioned the idea, & this year the idea became reality. This was kind of a big moment because Josh had been dreaming about it for four years. The moment he sunk his teeth into the smokey, juicy monstrosity he was happy. And though the fair is fun & crazy busy our own kiddos kinda get jipped. Because after working shift Josh & I just don't got it in us to really enjoy the fair with them. We're hoping to hit a smaller fair later in the month for the family fair experience.
On Wednesday night we took our kids to the fair, it was the only evening neither one of us was working. We took them through all the animal barns & bought way too much yummy fair food. Of course the thing that was lacking was rides. Unfortunately we had to decline rides. For one, we will take them on rides at the smaller fair we attend later on. Secondly, they cost way too stinking much! For Josh & the twins to ride the ferris wheel would have been $14! The next day we had to head out the ranch to get a few things & catch up on bills. So the twins spent the entire afternoon creating their own fair, they had fair on the brain.
Their fair included rides & it was all free so everyone could participate.
There were concessions with lemonade & goldfish crackers.
Danica especially enjoyed that part of the fair.
And there were games where old toys served as "prizes".
A petting zoo was the cherry on top. It included one chicken, despite much begging from the twins for me to go up in the mountains & track down the horse herd so I could bring a horse back for the zoo. The one chicken proved to be enough as it did escape once & I had to catch it.
I think the kiddos had more fun at this fair than the actually fair. And the whining & begging was absent, hooray! Homemade is always best, isn't it.
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