Tractor Time

A tradition of our family is to go to the Johnson County Fair. It's not a very big fair, so you can find a favoirte thing to do and do it a couple of times during the week.

One of our favorite things at the fair is the tractor and truck pull. This year Johann took the old 3 and I walked around with Rebecca. I watched part of it with them, but it was loud and Ammon & Corrine were getting bored so we left to walk around.
Our favorite animal this year was a mother mini rex rabbit and her 6 babies who were 5 weeks old. We took many visits to thier cage and pet them many times. We also saw the pigs, cows, goat and sheep. The sheep were the 2nd runners up by the kids. We sanitized our hands enough times to have needed to send them a replacement bottle of hand sanitizer to the county!

Tractor wheels-the BIGGER the better! Each year we've take a picture of the kids in the biggest wheel we can find. Then the kids climb all over the tractors and drive the smaller tractors and lawn movers.

This year Simeon got to hold a snake. The lady was talking to Simeon and asked if he liked the snake. He said he did. To that she made the comment "maybe when your older you can show your mom you can be really responsible she'll let you get a snake." I told her he's been wanting a dog but I'm not even ready for that!
We always go back for the fireworks on Thursday evening. We park in the north parking lot, and sit by the van to watch them, so we can get out before the crowd. They always shoot off giant fireball fireworks. The 1st time I saw them I thought the fireworks had exploded and the people setting them off were going to be hurt-then it happened again. If you can hear the music you'd hear the song "goodness gracious Great balls of fire!" just as the fireballs explode.
Ammon wanted to wear his fireman suit to the fair to see the "FIRE" works. When we got there the kid spotted the firetrucks. Ammon went right to them. One of the fireman saw him and was so excited to see him dressed up. He asked him if he wanted to go in the firetruck-boy did he ever. He lifted him right up so he could explore. Ammon seemed to make the firemans night and the firefighter made Ammon's night.

This year we were lucky to get nice weather and few bugs which made the fair an even better time.