Beating the Heat at the County Fair

Today it rained, Hallelujah!!! We've had days of record breaking heat and have been praying for relief and it finally came. We spent the weekend desperately trying to stay cool. Friday I decided to surprise the kids with a trip to our county fair. It had been years since I had taken Chloe and Aidan has never gone to the fair. So after Chloe's speech we lathered on the sunscreen, grabbed a bunch of bottled water, loaded into the Suburban and headed out. Even though the kids had no idea where we were going they were up for an adventure.

This little photo op was way too cute to pass up! Chloe wanted to be the lamb but Aidan was too short to peek through the farmer's face.


Aidan was so excited to see all of the animals. He kept making clucking sounds to all the chickens which was hilarious. Chloe loved the rabbits and laughed at all the coke cans in the rabbit cages. (Cold soda cans keep the rabbits cool in the heat). Chloe also loved looking at all the dogs. We saw cows and horses as well. We took time out from our busy day and watched the barrel races. Aidan had a blast cheering on the horses even though he had no idea why he was cheering.


Here is Chloe getting fingerprinted for a child i.d. kit. She thought it was fun getting ink all over her fingers. She looked like Mom does when she gets done stamping. LOL! She climbed on the fire truck after she got her finger prints taken. Aidan looked on, he refused to put his shoes back on so he could go on the fire truck. Did I mention it was hot? I didn't blame him for not wanting his shoes on.



Every once in a while there would be a great breeze that blew through the fairgrounds long enough to cool all of us down. It was a great day of looking around, trying new things! One of the new things we tried were snow cones! Aidan has never had one (at least to my knowledge) and it's been a long time since Chloe has had one. Aidan did fairly well with his at first but by the time we made it to the car he was covered in sticky flavoring and little bits of ice. Oh well, at least he was nice and cool!


In case you are wondering where Brenna was...she was in my front carrier for most of the day just kind of "hanging" out. She loves the carrier and gets so excited when it is time to get into it. She took the day in stride and enjoyed looking around underneath her wide-brim sunhat.