Anderson's Orchard

Last Sunday we went to Anderson's Apple Orchard.  It's the only u-pick orchard in the area.  We happened to hit it at it's busiest weekend with a craft fair and lots of people.  It was so much fun!!

David loved climbing way up into the trees and picking apples.  Even Mommy got up there at one time to help with our cause.  But thankfully there are no pictures of that.  You'll just have to use your imagination.  :)

As for Molly.... no tree climbing this year.  But she had fun laughing at all the monkeys in the trees anyway.

Indiana State Fair 2010 - Year of the pig

Toy Story's "Hamm" in cans - free

Entrance to the fair and parking - free (Thanks go Angie's List for asking Daniel to do a show and giving us free tickets).

Little Hands on the Farm exhibit - free

Planting seeds 

Milking a cow

 
One trip around the arena on a pony - $5.00.....each

Supper at the pork tent - $17.00
Cotton Candy - $2.00
Indiana Rodeo finals - free
Ribbon fries and drink at 9:00pm for a snack - $11.00

Enjoying the State Fair and the last days of summer vacation with the kids before school starts - Priceless!!

Fair-est of them all

I decided to enter Molly in the Baby Contest at the Hendricks County Fair.  And of course, when I told Elisa about it, she was on board!  Why??  Well, duh!  Our kids ARE the cutest kids in the county.  In their age group anyway.  : )

The contest started at 2pm with registration staring at one.  Lucky for Elisa her age group was first.  I'd like to meet the person who schedules a Baby contest right in the middle of afternoon nap time.  But I digress.  Anyway, Gavin and Josh went up and did their best for the judges.  We, of course thought he was the cutest thing up there, but alas, he was not chosen.  The Perry's came, did, and went with the rest of the afternoon still intact.

Molly, David, Daniel and I camped out until it was our turn.  A little over an HOUR later, they called our age group up as the last one.  By this time, Molly was about 45 minutes after her bottle and had given ALL of her smiles to the nice guy sitting behind us.  Like, no joke, I take her up to the judges and she just stares at them.  No smiles, no grins, nothing.  HAHA!  With hope on our horizon that they see her shear beauty - I mean, she could be the next Gerber Baby - we ventured to the stage where they were to announce the winner.  And....drum roll.......it was the fat little chunky baby next to us.  I decided then and there I was not cut out to be a pagent mom.  In all honesty, the baby that won was adorable and her Mom was nice too.  Darn!  And to be honest, how do you judge a bunch of cute babies anyway!  Not a single one of them was lacking in the looks department.  In the end, Molly and I were satisified at our first attempt and walked away proudly with with our participation ribbon.

And of course, next year.....we'll BRING IT!  So watch out cute babies!  : )