Our State Fair is the best State Fair (insert music notes here please)

When my mom was a little girl, her dad would listen to KSOP and she would say to him... "How can you stand all that twangy singing"?  And Grandpa Stott would say, well I love listening to KSLOP because it's the best radio station that I can sing better than the songs... and then his eyes would twinkle with laughter, cause you see, my grandpa Stott couldn't sing that well...On Friday night, as Rory was driving home, he was listening to KSOP... it's 11:15pm and there is a contest going on for the caller who calls in.  Not knowing what the prize is... hoping it's something really cool.. Rory calls and he wins!!!  And what does he win?  He won 4 free tickets to the State Fair for Saturday the 18th!  So he calls my mom and asks if that would be something that we could all go to do.  Mom talks to dad, and yep.. on Saturday, early afternoon, we take off to pick up the free tickets and go to the State Fair.  I have never been to a fair before, that I can remember.  maybe when I was really little, but I'm not sure. 

 

We went to see the prize bulls, cows,

 

sheep, goats, (the goat said the it would pose with us... how very kind!)

 

Roosters, rabbits, 

 

 and many other things.  

 

 We saw paintings, quilts, and there was this great sculpture of cows, made out of 700 lbs of butter, which is actually 2800 cubes of butter!  (behind us)

 

  I got a huge bag of cotton candy.  It was hot and muggy for the day.  Thank goodness I had sunscreen on, and wore my hat and sunglasses part of the time.  There were many rides to ride, which I couldn't do, but that was okay.

 

 My mom saw this sign.  She felt that it really depicted what grandma's are all about, spoiling their grandkids.  She laughed a lot at it.  She wanted to get the sign for our home... because she loves to spoil my nieces and nephews.

  It was a lot of  fun, and I'm grateful for Rory for sharing his tickets with us. Thanks Rory for the great idea!

A day at Melissa and Nolan's=FUN!

It was a holiday from school, and my parents decided that we were going to take the day and go visit Melissa and Nolan.  Melissa and Nolan had an amazing day planned for us.  We decided that we were going to go to the zoo.  Can you believe that Logan Utah has a zoo?  Well, it does.  The most exotic animal, I would have to say, was the kangaroo, but hey, that's okay.  Nolan, my brother in law, wanted so bad to run and get his bow and arrow when we saw the elk!  The elk were still, staring at us, and nothing was between us and the elk, (but the chain link fence).  But he had a lot of control, and so restrained  from doing it.    After the zoo, we went down the street to a fishing pond.. but it was the wrong time of day for fishing.  The sun was high in the sky, and fish just aren't biting that time of day.  Nolan, helped me by putting the worm on my hook, and cast the line clear out in the pond.  Two small fish were visible, but as soon as the worm came by them, they swam off like they were frightened of a little ole' worm!  Geez!  We tried for a couple of times, but no luck.  We did get to see two ducks kiss.. at least someone was getting some action!    It was a fun day anyways.  And I enjoyed seeing my sister, her newly painted house, and I got to take a walk in her neighborhood, seeing her neighbors and the sights of Richmond.. (which if you didn't know, it's just 20 miles north of Logan).  All in all, it was a great day, and different than working at school.  Holidays are good!

New arrival

My older brother, Derek, and his wife, Katie, had their first baby son on August 14th.  All day long we thought it would be a "Friday the 13th" baby.  Having the baby was scary enough, ha ha , but he didn't arrive on Friday.  He came at 12:28 am Saturday morning.  I got to go see him on Sunday.  Here is a picture of me holding him.  They are naming him Brogden.  You say it this way: Bro (long O sound) gden.  They "thought" that they had made it up... but while my sister Julie was doing genealogy she actually found an ancestor way back in the 16 or 1700's with the name Brogden!  I can't remember if it was a boy with the first name, or a girl with the last name, but what if it was a boy, and in some eerie way, Brodgen grows up to look like this ancestor!  Wouldn't that be super eerie cool?   No, I didn't get contacts... The sun was glaring my glasses, so we took them off so that I could look handsome... :)