Lemhi County Fair 2014

The fair was the last full week of August. The boys entered a few items of produce from our garden, but other than that, we weren't overly involved with it. We enjoyed visiting the fair 3 times during the week while it was here, though.

On Wednesday night, they have Family Fun Night, with additional activities and alcohol-free zones for families to bring their kids and have a cheap or free experience. It was the easiest Family Fun Night I've ever been to: Ammon was at cross country practice, Jonah and Micah were at football practice, so Josh and I took just Kanyon to the event. We were there right when it started, so he got to do all the inflatables he wanted without any lines.

He also tried shooting the target, and so did Josh and I. Josh was the only one to actually hit the target, though!

The firemen were there, and Kanyon got to hold and aim the fire hose as it sprayed water.

He also did the petting zoo, threw a pie at a cheerleader's face, and played a ring toss game. He and I got our pictures taken together at the photo booth with the fair theme:

Josh drove a golf cart with beer goggles on, and only drove over one cone. I totally aced that activity last year!

We walked around looking at all the animals and the exhibits. We discovered that Micah got 2 purple ribbons with his two different potato entries.

The other boys got red and blue ribbons with their potatoes, and all blue ribbons with their pumpkins.

On Friday afternoon, we took the boys out to go ride the rides. The weather was cold, but it wasn't raining, so not a lot of people were there. Last year, we bought the boys each a few tickets so they could all go on two rides a piece. They wanted to ride more, though, so we decided to get wristbands this year. The wristbands were $20 each, but they could ride as much as they wanted. Unfortunately, there were only 3 rides that the older boys could even go on, and only 7 rides total. They ended up riding the same 3 rides over and over for 2 hours. It was kind of a rip-off, but they had fun.

the mini rollercoaster

they're in the 2nd and 3rd cars

Jonah and Kanyon on the Scrambler

Micah on the Scrambler

Kanyon on the "baby car rides". He wasn't too happy that I made him try it.

Jonah and Micah were brave to try the Rocket.
It took them a while to work up the guts to do it, but they loved it!

They are in the middle right one. 

After they were done riding, we ate some fair food. We tried scones, scone nuggets, and waffle cones. Kanyon wanted food out of the carnie's booth: he ate cotton candy and a corn dog.

On Saturday night, we all went to the rodeo. It was cold and rainy again, so not a whole lot of people were there, but it was a great show. I thought it was even better than last year's rodeo! It lasted about 2 hours, and there were some awesome bronc riders, and a few bull riders. And the half-time show was amazing! A special act was performed by "The One-Armed Bandit". Without using his one hand & arm, he rode a horse around the arena using just his legs to guide it. Then he was able to direct some appaloosa horses to get up onto the top of his trailer, and he joined them on the top of his trailer, also without ever touching his mule with his hand as it climbed up & down. It was so incredible to see! This is a photo of his act going down Main Street for the rodeo parade:  

The boys all got fair food again while we were at the rodeo. They wanted warm food because it was so cold outside. Ammon got scone nuggets, Jonah got fresh donut holes, and Micah got hot chocolate (unfortunately the line for it was so long that he missed seeing the Bandit's show). Kanyon wanted to eat food from the carnie's booth once again, and he got a caramel apple.  

We like going to the fair. It was weird that it was so cold during fair week, but that didn't discourage us from going!