State Fair

On the 23rd, we took the kids to the Kentucky State Fair. This was my first time having ever gone, and therefore it was also the kids first time going. It was worth the 1 1/2 hour drive to Louisville, KY for a day of family fun.

Let me start by saying we had a late start because of the Princess's allergy shots, but after that we had breakfast and we were on the road, we got there around 11am. (YES YES YES I KNOW- "wasn't yesterday a school day?" Well to put that rumor at ease now- yes, yes it was- and yes, yes i did let my daughter skip school THIS ONCE, normally I make her go until the nurse calls me and tells me to come get her, so keep the "horrible parent" comments to yourself please.) She learned something! This picture was taken at one of the "county" booths talking about the history of Kentucky.

The kids had a blast looking at all kinds of cool stuff, it was much bigger and more spread out then I had thought it would be, walking wasn't an issue though, we had a stroller and the Princess has done DisneyWorld before so walking isn't an issue. That being said, she took straight to the characters too lol

There was a booth set up teaching kids about police work, and safety. God love her, Princess wanted to have her pics taken with the card board cutouts that lets your face be the face of the object pictured, oh heck- just look LOL

bahahahahahaha!!!! This is my FBI & Army daughter!! She's so goofy sometimes, but she earned it rightfully, heaven knows I'm not all there sometimes!

She also found a new friend in a balloon Tucan Bird... no joke!

Then there's my boys, they were so good yesterday (for the most part) it was hot and they didn't get to ride any fair rides but they sure had a blast. 

Both of my babies laughing, it was great! I hadn't seen my kids laugh and enjoy themselves this much in so long, I needed it, it showed me how happy they really are. 

The Princess did get to ride some fair rides though, haha, she REALLY loved that!

She screamed and laughed the entire time she was on this!

LMAO THIS PIC CRACKS ME UP!!! She's laughing I swear, she's not crying!

Princess managed to get us on the carousel, not that it took much convincing honestly, I'm a big kid, sometimes those are the best parents right? Anyways, along with me, she got her Aunt Britty who IS a big kid at heart, she rode a freaking horse! 

She's goofy too!! 

On to some random information about me, it's relevant I promise. My fave color- pink. My dream car- mustang. A cause I will always support- Breast Cancer Awareness. So will you put yourself in my shoes when I saw this when I turned the corner?

HECK YES! I was excited! This car had it all, it was pink, it was a stang, and it supported my cause. I had to have my picture with it.

Some seriousness though, I had the holy crap scared out of me at one point though, I didn't realize just how close we were to the Louisville Airport, yeah, so picture my surprise and shock when this flew over my head REALLY low to the ground...

Instant panic anyone? I mean really? This close to 9/11 and I was flipping out, bless their hearts, Britty & Porkchop were like "um you do know the airport is right over there?" haha I felt stupid! 

Random, but I believed that whole "you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl" thing, I think that's a lie now. I was born in the country and was baiting worms on my own when I was 3 with my dad- I moved to the city and thought a bit of that was still in me up until yesterday. We walked into see the animals and it was AWFUL the things that we seen, heard, and omg smelled.

HUGE pigs that were about to be auctioned off, sheep, random farm animals. It was crazy looking at them all and thinking "why in the world do they have all these animals here?" Then I was informed that it was going to be a livestock auction. Uummm... why are you doing that at a state fair with kids from all walks of life there? My children did not in the slightest understand that and how awful to do that there? Can't they have a private place to hold that? On our way to try to get out of this particular area I overhead a conversation between a lady and this guy talking about a pig. 

man: "he's worth it, but don't eat him- breed him"

lady: "oh, he won't taste good, but he'll breed well?"

man: "yup, breed him."

WOW! I could have gone the rest of my life without hearing that! I mean I know that's what we eat and stuff but WHY do that sort of thing in a massively populated area in front of kids??? Just my opinion but there are phones and private offices for those types of conversations. That's almost as disturbing as the sign that hung next to the baby chicks coup. It read "Sponsored by Tyson Chicken" HOW AWFUL IS THAT!?

Anyways, enough of my ranting about people in their livestock issues. I hope you enjoyed =) 

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