Downtroden and heavyladen

Believe me, my intent has not been to neglect this blog. In fact, I have 9, yes 9, posts waiting to be finished! A couple of them date all the way back to July 4th weekend. You, see, I have this thing about having to put posts up in order. I know, it is silly, but it seems wrong to put up a post about Madelyn's birthday, which was a couple weeks ago, when I haven't put up a post about Momma Susan's awesome birthday, which was a couple MONTHS ago! Ahhh! I'll tell you what is slowing me down. First, I have this backlog of pictures that need to be sorted and tagged. Jointly, Ben's family (including Ben and I) took over 1000 pictures on our trip for Momma Susan's birthday. There are some really good ones (really great ones too!) but there are a lot of stinkers that need to be purged. Then, since then we have taken almost another 1000 pictures too. The joys of having a new camera. And I have been procrastinating.... So, now I am starting to feel the pressure of getting it done. I need hardrive space (yes, I predicted this problem) and I definitely need to get the events of the last couple of wonderful summer months recorded. So, yes, I will be working on getting my 9 posts done and published. However, heed this as a warning - they will start at July 4th weekend. and work their way to the present. There is some good stuff in there, so don't miss any of it!

MN State Fair 2008

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is one of our favorite things of living in Minnesota! We have so much fun going every year! Ben and I have gone almost every year we have lived here. If you know Ben, you'll know that it must be special if he is willing to take a day of vacation to go. We choose to do that though because the weekends at the fair are CrAzY!!! The streets are jammed packed and it is a feat to move from one venue to another.... not us. So, we usually go on Tuesday and love how the crowd is a little more subdued. Ben's and my favorite stops are the arts & crafts building, the agriculture building, the diary barn, the baa barn, the moo barn, the oink barn, and the crazy-looking chickens, This year's visit we were "forced" to cut back on our annual favorites to give the kids some fun too! So, we added the Little Farmer Hands farm and Kidway to the mix. It was all fun!! Ben even got to do his favorite thing this year - the sky glider!!

Btw, if you want to read a great commentary about the fair and see some truly awesome pictures, go to Tracy's blog.

My little farm hands

Feeding Greyson's love of trucks and tractors


A stop by Kidway - Madelyn LOVED it!

What do you do when your legs get tired?

Petting the sheep

Checking out a month-old cow

The highlight of Ben's day - the Sky Glider!

PS - I know that this post is about 3 months late, but better late than never is what I say!

How we spent our weekend

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AFTER!!!

Don't they look great!?! The bamboo boards are just beautiful. It took A LOT more work than we were expecting but I think it was worth it.