It IS Fair. (and it's about time!)

In our house if someone says, "It's not fair!"  Someone else is bound to respond with, "The fair is in August!"  Here are a few pictures from said fair: 

Jaron on a big green tractor.

Faith on a big pink tractor.

Jaron said, "Look Mom, a cow-horse!"

Milking a "cow."

Rides...

Rides...

and more rides!! 

Oh, I guess they do love each other!

Faith on stage with Break Shop, showing her break-dancing moves.  (The dancer in the first picture was telling the audience her name.  He said, "Her name's Faith...Get it right!" (all serious)

A cute bunny from the 4-H building.

This first-time gardener is too easily impressed.

Our family planted our first garden this spring and although it started out cold and wet and nothing seemed to want to grow, after just a few days of summer sunshine everything burst into life!

Faith's sugar pie pumpkin plant.  Yep, that's just one plant!

Almost knee-high by the 13th of July?  Hmmm...

Yellow summer squash.

Eggplant!

Faith's carrots!

Kids eat more vegetables when they grow them and Faith says her favorite chore is weeding!

The jury is still out on the Topsy Turvy tomato planter.  My poor plant spends all his energy trying to be upright!

 I planted this tomato plant at the same time as the Topsy Turvy.  He seems a lot happier, don't you think?

Baby fennel is so cute!  I have no idea what I will do with it when it grows up!

Did you know chives deter aphids?  Plus they are really good on baked potatoes and come back year after year!

Faith turned 7!

Likes:  Tea parties (for her 7th birthday...and any other day), jumping on the trampoline (with daddy), swimming (or getting wet in any way, shape or form), reading (when it is not a chore and especially bible stories), ice cream (but it has to be vanilla bean), stuffed animals (she has over 100!), and her friends (she loves everyone).

Dislikes:  Being alone (unless by choice) & feeling left out, scary things (and the dark)...that's all I can come up with (she mostly likes everything/everyone!). 

They may be terrible, but there's no need to curse! (continuing the Suprak major league ball park tour)

Dave had to go to Baltimore, MD for a work conference.  We decided it would be a great opportunity to continue our Major League Ball Park Tour (we are going to see how many fields we can visit before the kiddos are grown...or don't want to be seen with us in public anymore!).  Plus, it was a great excuse to see the East Coast and visit a town we probably wouldn't visit otherwise. 

Our hotel was on the inner harbor with a lot of fun places to go and things to see.  We bought tickets to see the Orioles play the Red Sox last Friday night.  That morning we took off for the Children's Museum a few blocks away, sporting our new orange Orioles t-shirts.  In the 6 block journey to the museum, two cars yelled at us...THEY YELLED STUFF I CANNOT WRITE ON THIS BLOG AND CERTAINLY DIDN'T WANT MY KIDS TO HEAR!!  Dave and I quickly realized that even though we were in Baltimore, Oriole fans are a minority.

So what if the team is on a 16 game losing streak, just fired their manager, and ended up losing to the Red Sox by 11 runs.  And, so what if the stands were filled with red and 70% of the crowd was cheering for Boston!  It was still a terrific trip and we had a wicked-awesome time!