Iowa State Fair 2011

Emma is helping me feed Gracie so

I can get ready.

Since my work paid for our admission and gave

us money for food and beverage tickets

we headed for DM after Vahn got of work on Saturday.

Vahn had to work till 2 PM which was

a bummer but it all worked out.

We got to DM by 4;30 and the girls had slept on the way

down so they were ready to go when we go there!

Emma is such a great helper!!! I am really

blessed with two wonderful daughters!
Dad pushing the girls. He is not excited to get
his picture taken but the girls enjoying
the great weather!

It was close to 5 and of course Emma was
hungry. Vahn and I got a couple of beers
and we all shared some cheesy fries.

Gracie is even enjoying some fries!

Mom and Emma ready to go down the Giant Slide!

Of course half way up Emma got tired...so I had to

carry her up!

Vahn's pictures he took of Emma and I didn't

turn out so we went down again...then he got busy

talking to a lady and forgot to take the picture:)

So Emma wanted to go down "1" more time.

I told Vahn he needed to go..I got my workout!

As you can see by Emma's face

she loved it!! What a cheap entertainment!

While we were walking they had a parade of Draft horses.

We sat and watched a few. Very pretty horses!

We made sure to go and look at the butter cow..of course the line was

long so we decided to look from aways.

In the same building they had 4H projects.

I could of looked at the plants and flowers all day.

They were so pretty!

Emma was ready for some ice cream

so we got her a milk shake her and her daddy's favorites!

We found out that Gracie loves the milk shake too!

She got pretty pissed with me when I didn't feed her

fast enough!

Emma walking a cow!!

She told us that she wants to do that with Weston and Wyatt some day!

We will see about that! (Vahn would enjoy it..not sure mommy would:)

Emma still working on the milk shake and Greace is now

working on her bottle. She loves having her face covered by

her blanket.

Getting tired!

Getting ready to meet Clifford..the BIG RED DOG!

He is one of Emma's favorites!

I am holding Grace...trying to take a picture while

Vahn is off looking at some outdoor stuff. And my camera

was set for a close up! Oh well. Emma was a little scared she didn't get to

close to Cifford!

We left DM around 8:30 and got home around 11 PM.

We had a nice time..even though we were there for 4 hours it

was long enough for all of us.

The girls did great and enjoyed it too!

We came home to a dark town and house.

Power was off till 1PM...it was out for over 4 hours!