MN State Fair

Well, today was the day. The day that we decided to tackle the MN state fair. Lets set this scenario up....One mama with a 20 month old, and a 4 year old who is too old for a stroller. (me)Another mama with a 2 year old, and a 3 1/2 year old who is also too big for a stroller. (Cami)

I don't know if you all know, but the MN state fair is the biggest state fair in the United States besides Texas. There were literally THOUSANDS of people there. It was absolute chaos! Sam and Hayden want to run and play and look at all the COOL stuff that there is! Look! an ARCADE! Look! a SPIDER MAN DOLL! Look! a SHINY OBJECT! I mean, they would really want to run everywhere. If one mama wasn't yelling at them to GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!, the other one was. I think I said Sam's name more times today than I have his entire life. Hayden has just become potty trained, so in the beginning they have to go to the bathroom ALL THE TIME! I totally sympathize, I have been there! At one point he says he needs to go, and Cami takes off running, because you do not want any accidents. We were RUNNING! Pop and cookies were flying everywhere! It was hilarious! :) Then you have to factor in that we walked everywhere! I think we looped the entire fair at least 2 times. We have to find all the best food you know! We had corn on the cob, cheese curds, corn dogs, deep fried pickles, root beer, lemonade, pop, popcorn, cotton candy, greek pitas and homemade cookies. Man, it was awesome! But, I think that was pretty much the only reason why we went. The food. With 2 strollers, it is really hard to navigate anywhere. Today was an adventure, but I think we will not be doing it again for a couple of years. Lets wait until the kids will be a little older.

This is an old fire truck, of course we had to get a picture! Sam loves fire trucks! He was mad that he didn't get to sit in it. (they wouldn't let him).These pics are at the very end of the day before we got on the bus to go home. Jack is all smiles still! But he got to ride all day! :0) Here is Sam being silly. Mama thinking "get me the heck out of here!" Also, she was thinking "Vote McCain". MMM-MMMM we have differing opinions here and we were trading barbs all day! She got the Vote McCain button, and I went to two different places to get an Vote Obama pin and they were all out! *sigh*.Here is smiley Eli. He is going to be 2 years old on Monday! By this time, Hayden was having none of it! No way. So, I said OK! I will take your picture anyway! Cutie.