The Mighty Howard County Fair!

This past Saturday we headed down to Cresco for the "Mighty Howard County Fair!" It was VERY hot, but we had a great time. We stopped at Cherri and Gerry's on the way and had some lunch and then we all headed to the fair. We went through all the animal barns and that was great, but then the boys found these.......

Asher checking out the 4 wheeler. There were also tractors and rangers which they also spent quite a bit of time on.

Grayson looking tough on the 4 wheeler.

Then we let them pick 1 ride and of course they chose the "sotermycles" As you can see, they loved it! Eston chose to play a game - a Fishing game - and he won a panda bear!
They even had free face painting. The girls were pretty young but I think they did ok. Eston was disappointed that there were only 2 stars on his flag.

Grayson went easy and chose the green smiley face. Asher wa busy eating his cookie and missed getting his face painted.

Monkeying around at the howard county fair.

Then we head back to Cherri and Gerry's for another Ranger ride. Here they are with daddy. Eston was busy catching butterflies - he actually caught 2, one with the dog dish and one with an icecream pail on a stick.

Grayson and Cherri riding in the wagon - I am not sure who is having more fun.

One of the reasons we went to the fair is because they had a kids pedal tractor pull. Since the boys all love to ride the pedal tractor at Grandma and Grandpa's we thought this would be right up their alley.

This is Grayson's first pull. Unfortunately, I didn't get it in focus before he started. Anyway, you can still see that he did a great job! He did not place but he had a great time. We will definatley be going back next year. Not too bad for his first time.

This was Asher's second pull. I was not able to upload his first pull because the file was too large. When they called his name he almost didn't do it, too shy, but then we were going to laet Grayson go first and that was enough to get Asher on the tractor. Asher did a full pull the first time through and they had a 5 way tie so each kid had to do a second pull. For the second pull they add extra weight so it is a little harder. As you can see, he was very excited. He got 4th place! Way to go bud!

Eston also did a pull but dad did not get it recorded. Eston did great also - 4th place finish! He missed third by a very small amount. We will definately have to do some training for next year :).