County Fair

Well, last week came and went! We are finally having some consistent summer weather. Although, on Wednesday it POURED rain almost the whole day long! It was amazing...we ended up only having to shop-vac the basement twice...some folks had inches of water in their basements, and we found out later we got 4 inches of rain that day alone. Wowsers.

The boys and I went to the South St. Louis County fair on Saturday - it's small and closeby, so we ventured out. (Jeff needed that day to catch up at church.) I am so glad we did! Kids 12 and under were free, and it only cost $3 for me. They had GREAT barns full of animals and friendly people to tell us all about them, and the petting barn was the best I've ever seen...they had all the typical farm animals, then also camels, llamas, alpacas, and a wallaby! We fed pretty much all of them. :) We also got to see a lumberjack show - those guys are nutso strong! The boys each got to keep a slab of wood that had been used in the show and they had the two main lumberjacks who competed sign them. They did a 'boom log' race...four logs kind of strapped together end to end and they tried to run all the way across them to the other dock and then back. One guy did it!! It was pretty neat. We of course ate some good fair fries and kettle corn. :) We also got to see a Dock Dogs show...they set up a pool that was over 30 feet long that had a long dock on one end, then dogs race down the dock and take flying leaps into the water...it was really fun. A few of the dogs ran right up to the edge, then stopped and hopped in!! LOL Then there were at least two that we saw who each went over 22 feet!! Looked like they were flying. We also played a few games, and the boys even humored me and went in the main exhibit hall - they were DELIGHTED to find out that you can enter lego creations in the fair, and are already busy planning and building the things they want to enter next year. I don't know if any of you have ever seen the 'crazy frog' on youtube, but Noah made a crazy frog that's really good!! We came home happy and tuckered out. Lucas did great - hung in there and just enjoyed looking around from the stroller. We found a person to loan us a folding chair from their booth so I could sit in some shade to nurse him, and the whole day was just really fun.


Friday night Jeff and I went on a date!!! Ronda Thierer watched all three boys and Jeff and I rode the motorcycle downtown and had mexican with some good friends of ours that we hadn't visited with in several months. They are the pastor/wife at a baptist church across town. It was a beautiful night and perfect for riding the motorcycle! We ran out of gas just as we got off the interstate coming home...thankfully there's a gas station right there. I didn't realize it, but the motorcycle doesn't have a gas gauge on it! :) It was a funny way to end the evening. When we came home the house was dark and quiet - Ronda had all three boys in bed sleeping peacefully!!! Ahhhh!!!!

Other than that, we are just busy gearing up for school. I have to order a couple more books for Noah, but we are almost ready. We're going to move some things around in the end of the living room near the bathroom and kind of have that end of things be devoted to school. Going to paint a tall shelf from the garage and bring it in - hopefully we can corral all the school stuff in there. :)

Lucas is three months old now...*sniff sniff* He's back to sleeping 11 hours at night after about a week of getting up in the middle of the night to eat again. Can't get him to take good naps yet, but with good sleep at night I know that will come.

More to come!