Alaska State Fair

Well we finally made it out to the Alaska State Fair! Woo hoo! We didn't anticipate it, but we ended up staying up there for over 6 hours!! This kids held up great so we kept walking around. The fair grounds were pretty nice actually. Everything was really clean and there was plenty of space to walk through. So what do you do at the Alaska State Fair?? Well, here is what WE did.

Well, first Stella and I got a picture with Smokey the Bear. You remember him right?!


I really wanted to see the giant vegetables. Since there is so much sunlight here in the summer, farmers can grow these huge cabbages and I wanted to see them.


We also checked out the animals. Every state fair has animals. Shawn tooked Nicholas into the petting zoo. He got to pet a llama, some piglets, and a few goats.

We found some rides for Nicholas to ride on. He hopped in the helicopter with two other little boys- they were so cute everytime they made the turn.


And you can see Nicholas loved this motorcycle ride, too.



Shawn and I each took Nick down one of those giant slides. He rode safely on our laps. It was fun for us to ride a ride, too.

Then we could not believe we saw this "digger" for Nicholas to sit in. Nicholas was on cloud nine. I think it totally made his day. He couldn't stop talking about it to doggy dog (his favorite stuffed animal) when we got home. When he was siting in the digger all Nick talked about was making a Wal-Mart. This is probably because they are renovating our Wal-Mart up the street and he LOVES all of the construction equipment on the site. This "ride" made his day and it didn't even cost a carnival ride ticket!



Stella had a fun day too. She pretty much lounged and slept all day in the stroller. Overall she was very pleasant even though she is cutting her second tooth. (Yes, sorry, forgot to blog it...Stella got her first tooth last Saturday)