Hannah made some entries into the fair for the first time. She painted a picture of a sun and a monkey to enter. She got blue ribbons on both pieces and not to mention a premium check to put in her piggy bank. I entered some photographs and strawberry jam. I was pretty happy with how my entries did.
Saturday of the fair was our big day. Last year the families in our area started a float called Copic Bay Kids. We don't see some of these people much the rest of the year, but this is a chance to come together as neighbors and work together. This year's theme was "Magic on Main Street." It gave us a bit of a challenge but with a little help and a lot of work we came up with a good idea.
"Copic Bay Kids bring you Magic on Main Street"
Watch carefully as the magicians pull little bunnies out of the hat. The girls and I were in the hat. If you were wondering what in the world I could have been doing with the water trough, well here it is as a top hat. With a little welding help from Ben and a lot of hard work, we were able to turn a water trough, some steel, pipe, plastic, and hay bales into a giant top hat. Thanks to everyone that helped make this float possible!
We are the ones on the left. Of course Hannah had her bunny ears on the whole time until we reached Daddy with the camera, when they fell off and I couldn't reach them. Oh well!
Saturday at the fair was also "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" day sponsored/promoted by Wrangler and designed to increase awareness about breast cancer. In support, we decided to incorporate pink into our float rather than red. We were proud to find out that the kids won with their float. We had decided a head of time that if we won anything it would be given to a special little friend that is fighting cancer. All of our hard work paid off and we were so happy to be able to bless him.
Photo by The Huffman Family
She did however do what she does best and that is talk. Here's one of the judges asking Hannah questions about her calf. We were proud of Hannah. She placed third in the class for doing such a good job answering her questions. The judges were pleased to see that at three years old she knew that her calf was a Black Angus. And in Hannah style, she made the judges chuckle when she answered her questions. It's tough work, but I'm looking forward to many more years of teaching the girls to show livestock, and learning some myself along the way.
Photo by Cindy Micka Wright
Hannah and I at her first "show."
Photo by The Huffman Family
Hannah had literally been talking about riding the Ferris wheel for a year. Unfortunately she was not tall enough to ride it this year. Hopefully next year. She did find lots of other fun rides to go on with her friends. One Mommy has a stronger stomach than I do, so she offered to take the kids on the Strawberry ride.
