Cache County Fair

*Day 259*

Logan kicked butt at the fair this year! Here is a picture of his entries. He got first prize for his dilly beans, a bracelet he made for me, his lego car, and his peanut butter chip brownies. They were seriously the best brownies. I'm glad he got first place for them because I thought he did a really good job. He got third prize for the bookends he painted and his cherries. He also entered his grass head guy and some cookies in the Cloverbud division in 4-H. He brought home $20.25. Not too shabby. He was way excited. Especially when some of his prize money was paid out in fifty cent pieces.

Not Taking

*Day 252*

OK, I give up! I've started this about 6 times with different ideas. None of them are taking. I just don't think I've got what it takes today. But, stay tuned for an update of how we fared in the fair. In the meantime, I'll try to get more sleep. I think that might help this situation.

Stuff

*Day 246*

* Logan has been waking up early this week. But, I think it has made him kind of tired. He has been super sensitive and overly dramatic. And, he wanted to cuddle tonight. I don't mind the cuddling. The rest I could do without.

* Logan got to go the dentist this week.... twice. It's OK, it wasn't bad news. He still has no cavities, but he got to go back today to get sealants on his permanent 6 year molars. He's a trooper.

* We got a new camera to replace our old one that fell in the river (in case you don't follow Matt's blog). I'm excited to get to know it.

* I've been really tired this week. I'm thinking maybe I should give up water aerobics. It's later than I used to stay up (plus talking time afterwards). I'm almost happy that school is starting soon, so I can stop going. But, I really like it, and I need some sort of exercise. I just wish it were earlier.

* It was really nice to enjoy a short rain storm, and the coolness that came with it.

* For the first time in years, I don't have a desire to bake anything for the fair. I haven't tested out any new recipes like I usually do. I'm just not in the mood to make my kitchen a mess, and eat all the leftovers. (That doesn't sound like me!) I did find a recipe for eggnog bread that I really wanted to try for the fair, but I can't find eggnog at this time of year. I'm canning tomorrow, so I can enter beets and beans. Maybe I'll bake something before Monday. Maybe.

* Logan was so excited for the new, hour long, Phineas and Ferb tonight. I think that might be why he's been waking up early. He found out that they are on in the morning. They've been reminding him all week that the new episode was tonight. Before 7:00 this morning he had checked the TV guide to see what time it was on. Then he told me that we needed to have dinner before 6:00 because Phineas and Ferb was on then. (We ate dinner in front of the TV.)

*The power went out while we were at the library today. They wrote down all the books we checked out on paper. I'm glad I don't have to enter that into the computer later.

* There is a container sitting on my stairs filled with grasshoppers. Logan spent his day catching grasshoppers with Jessica's butterfly net. He had to bring them home. He told me tonight that they don't like the grass he gave them and he's going to let them go in the morning.

Cache County Fair

*Day 245*

This week we are getting ready for the Cache County Fair. Every year we make things and enter them in the fair. This is a tradition that was started by Lynn. Her first husband, Roger, used to enter livestock and other things in the fair when he was younger. When I lived with Lynn and Roger for the summer while I was in college, they encouraged me to enter a dress I had made in the fair. I got a second place ribbon.

When me and Matt moved back to Logan, I was working for the school district and Lynn babysat Logan. Lynn had all of the kids at her daycare do a fair project that she would enter for them. So, Logan entered a truck he had painted in the fair when he was a year and half old. Now, it's a tradition. Every year all of the daycare kids do a craft project and a baking project to enter in the fair.

Lynn told me I should enter stuff too. I didn't want to because I didn't think my stuff was good enough to enter in the fair. But, we canned applesauce together right before the fair. Lynn encouraged me to enter it, and I won a prize. So, I entered some things the next year. Then I learned that everyone that enters wins a prize. Now, I'm not afraid to enter things because I know I'll get at least third place! Now we enter whatever we can; baking, crafts, canning, garden vegetables, lego sculptures......

It's become a fun thing that we look forward to every year. And this week is the week that we are preparing all of our stuff for the fair.


Logan's entries from last year. Canned beans, cookies, painted star, veggies from the garden, and a lego ship. (I didn't know until after we entered it that Matt actually made most of it. Logan forgot to tell me that.) He won enough money to rides some rides at the fair.


Logan's bug collection. He won first prize.



Logan's highlight of the fair last year. He won 1st prize for the biggest zucchini in the junior division. (He talked a whole bunch of smack to his aunt Lynn because his zucchini was bigger than hers.)