"Our State Fair is a great state fair...."

A week and a half ago we went to the State Fair with our community group families (minus the Pokludas). We've done this together as a group for the past 2 years and have always had so much fun! 

I had been looking forward to this day for a long time, because I just knew that Lucy was going to LOVE the Children's Medical Center Barnyard with all the cute animals- she LOVES animals of any kind, and I couldn't wait to see her joy!

We packed into the Treadaways' new Swagger Wagon and met the Saugier's at the Fair and had a blast! We were quite the sight to see- two double Bob strollers plus our stroller (6 kids under the age of 7 plus two preggo mommies...)

Here we go!

Daddy and Lucy (so fun to see this pic, especially after Big Tex burned down this week!)

If I could only bottle the energy she has, I'd never be tired...

Callie and Parker

Lucy LOVED the animals!!

test-driving the cars

Lucy giving Case a hug

All the kiddos- and Lucy giving Case a hug- so sweet!

My souvenir from the fair was this lovely shoe. I have no idea how it happened, other than I spent 4 hours walking around the fair in good tennis shoes, but apparently I have sesamoiditis (inflammation of the tiny bones in the bottom of my big toe)- on Sunday after the fair, I woke up with really bad foot pain and couldn't  put any weight on my foot. Thankfully, I was able to go see the podiatrist on Tuesday and got this lovely shoe (which actually makes my foot feel so much better and keeps me mobile, which is important when you have a very, very busy 18 month old!). I get to wear this for another week and a half, then hopefully it's healed. :) 

The podiatrist said he sees these types of injuries all the time around the fair....guess I'm turning into an old woman or something...

Oh, and the fried food- we had (of course!) Fletcher's corny dogs, funnel cake, fried mac and cheese (was not great), fried moon pies, fried jambalaya, fried cheese curds, and fried pecan pie (which was quite tasty!!). Note, we didn't eat all of the fried food by ourselves- it works great when you have a big group and  everyone can get a taste! Oh, and of course, a caramel apple (my favorite!), cotton candy, and cold root beer from the big wooden barrels.