"I got robbed!"

Well Shanda put three of her pictures in the fine arts division at the county fair this year. She got a reserve sweepstakes and a blue ribbon with this beautiful rose done in pastel.

She also recieved a reserve sweepstakes and a blue ribbon for the picture of this handsome man and his fish done in pencil.

And she won a sweepstakes and a blue ribbon for these beautiful vegetables done in pastel.

We looked at all of the other pictures while we were there and I must say that I agree with Shanda when she says, "I got robbed!" I mean just look at these vegetables, that picture of me are you kidding I'm gorgeous and you dont give me a ribbon that says grand champion??? COME ON. And whats wrong with the rose? Have you never seen flowers before? Don't you know that you won't find a more perfectly executed pastel drawing of flora anywhere else in the wourld??? Sorry... just had to get that off my chest. Thanks. Anyway we had fun and Shanda made just enough money to pay for our parking at the fair and a cup of breadsticks. Yeah!

Petting Zoo

We can't get Sharlee to stop screaming and release her death grip on us long enough to pet anything with four legs ever since bandit gave her a kiss when she was younger so we thought the petting zoo at the county fair would be a waste of time but we gave it a shot anyway. J.J. loved it!

I think he probably had more fun here than any other place that we went while we were there. He just kept going back and forth from one goat to another determined to pet them all.

Sharlee let me take her in the goat pen but she made sure that I didn't let anything touch her while she was in there.

J.J. had fun looking at the cows and horses and other animals there but once he found out that he could touch these ones we didn't go anywhere else. He had a blast.

Day out and about

Well Shanda and I had the day off together so we decided to get everyone all gussied up and go to the swimming hole. I just think that the kids look so cute in their sunglasses.

Sharlee was actually in a good enough mood to Shanda take a picture of her
and I finally got on the blog. Woo hoo.
We went shopping to get some stuff for lunch. It s real easy to shop these days we just let the kids drive a cart around and we throw stuff in off the shelf as they move by it.
Once we got to the park there was no stopping the kids. J.J. had a blast playing in the water fountain and chasing Sharlee all over the park. Shanda and I also had fun and enjoyed the nice long nap that the kiddies took later on that day.