Adams County Fair

We love going up to the fair in Othello. We have not been able to go for the past two years and I was going this year!


Grandpa pulled a 100 year old wagon from Lind in the parade. He wanted Cooper to ride with him. Cooper sat up there for a minute and then right after this picture burst into tears! Maybe next year! Bobby the dog rode underneath the seat. Bobby is Grandpa's best friend and the only dog Cooper is not scared of!


Jack and Judy Grandpa's mule team.


Grandpa was at the very end of the parade!


Coop and Case taking a break from running to go get candy.


Looking for candy. This little girl in the picture is Allie. She is the most adorable little girl ever. She is Cooper's exact age. We want him to marry her when he grows up!

After the parade we headed over to the fairgrounds. I love the Adams County Fair! A nice little county fair with all the amenities but only 1/3 of the people. I love going and letting Brenden run into old friends and letting him reminisce of the good ol days when he ruled the fair grounds. He only dreams that his children would be able to take animals there.

Cooper was all over the rides. He wanted to go on this Rocket one first. I was so afraid he was going to start freaking out when he realized it went high up in the air. Nope! He loved it!


Just cruizin.


Coming down for landing!


We let Case go on the fish ride with Cooper. This ride actually went pretty fast. Cason loved it. He giggled the whole ride!

Torque-N-Tune

Brenden has a friend that he calls Torque-N-Tune. He can fix any snowmobile, dirt bike, four wheeler, you name it. Cooper has taken on this nickname. He is always out messing around in the garage trying to find any hammer, screw driver, wrench, you name it. He will work on his bike, my car, lawn mower, you name it! I caught him finishing up the other day. He was taking the wrench to that little Vacuum this day. We can never find any tools and he is partially to blame. We end up hiding everything from this kid. I just hope he likes to fix stuff when he gets older and I can put him to good use around the house!

Swimming with the Beehives

Cooper went swimming with the Beehives for Mutual the other night.

Here he is with Jori. He would not leave her alone! She has babysat him a few times so he loved following her around.



Still following Jori. She was really good and didn't even act too annoyed with him. He just keep yelling "Jori, Jori, where are you?" He would not let her out of his sight!

Some Beehives.

Maddison being cute. I was in Beehives in our old ward and was recently called back into Beehives in our new ward. I have enjoyed getting to know the girls! I really enjoy the Beehive age. So eager to do anything they are asked, love coming to mutual, and think anything you tell them is the best!

2nd day of school

We were late on the first day of school, so no pictures! This is cooper on his second day of school. Kate spent the night, so here is the two of them! Cooper kept asking Kate to go to school with him and she would reply, "I can't go to school with you Cooper, I'm not five!" It was so cute. She even told his teacher that. Cooper not interested in picture..again!


Ya let's go!

Brotherly Love

This is how my boys show affection for one another. Yes, biting! When Cooper gets really mad at Case he will sometimes bite! It is absolutely horrible. One of the hardest parenting moments. You know you want to go beat the one who bit and discipline him right then and there, but how do leave the wounded. I don't know what to do in that situation. I just can't leave Case who is just screaming in pain! Anyways, this happened about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I was pretty mad about this one since it was right on his cheek!

It is kinda hard to tell but it was really swollen and left a nice little bruise for a few days. Yes, I did go and get Case a nice little milk bottle to comfort him!




All better now! I love how kids are so quick to forgive! I know this picture might creep you out, but I need some pictures so I can show him when he gets older how he was cross eyed. Oh, and by the way Cooper knew he was in big trouble that day. I was torked to say the least. I sent him to his room told him to not move from his bed and slammed his door. He knew I ment bussiness because it was a little after noon and he did not move and he decided to take a nap. I was shocked and it was a good thing he went to sleep because I was not about to let him out of his room!

Benton-Franklin Fair

Holy catch up! Well, I need to start being a better blogger so I will play catch up! The end of August means the Benton Franklin County Fair. I attempted to take the kids on Thursday, but by the time we got down there they were too exhausted and so was mom, so we ended up going back on Friday night and took dad with us!

The cool thing about this fair is your ticket to the fair gets you into the rodeo. We took the kids for a little bit until we had enough of Cason's screaming and kicking! As we were leaving we got to see some muttin bustin! So cute! My dream would be to have one of my kids do that! I told Brenden we need to buy a sheep so the boys can practice. There is no way that Cooper would just go jump on one of those crazy sheep in front of hundreds of people! We need to practice, we will see if it ever happens!



This crazy guy riding a fake horse! Cooper didn't know what to think. Thank heavens he never started his someone is murdering me scream! He is deathly scared of mascots!


Looking at the cows! I think I heard, " mom, mom, a cow! Mom, mom a cow!" A million and one times!

The white fence in the back is from Kent Farms. Brenden says the fair came and bought a ton of fence panels from Kent Farms a few years back. All of Kent Farm's fence panels were painted white, so when you see all the white panels at the fair you will know who they bought them from!


My baby is growing up. He looks like a big boy!


And he found the 4-wheelers! Yep you guessed it, there was a screaming fit to get him off of it! Thank heavens we were headed to the car!

Cooper totally not interested. All he was thinking was what four wheeler do I want to get on next! Yes, he does bleed two stroke oil!