Fair Fun

The North Georgia State Fair is in town right now.  I have so many great memories of the fair.  Most of them center around going many times as a child with my Mama Lottie and Pawpaw.  I also love the time Ryan and I went with our friends, the Rohans, and saw the Josh Turner concert; Lily was born just three days after, so I have always thought this was our last night out before our world was turned upside down (in a great way!).  We weren't able to make it to the fair last year, so I was excited that the girls, Liz and I were able to go after church yesterday.  It was a beautiful day; perfect for the fair!

 

The doors open at 12:30 on Sunday, so we pretty much headed straight back to the food area; we were hungry!  The girls and I enjoyed corn dogs and fresh-squeezed lemonade.  Then, I had to have a funnel cake; you can't have a fair without funnel cake, right?!  Turns out, the girls didn't really like it...oh well, more for Liz and me.

 After lunch, we started walking around, and Mia wanted to do the trampoline so badly.  She had been talking about it all over lunch, and she was determined.  So once we decided she actually is big enough, they strapped her in and she started bouncing.  She loved it!

 Since the girls didn't really like the funnel cake, I caved and bought them shave ice.  Something about the fair makes me feel like I need junk food.  Anyways, here's Mia enjoying her tri-flavor concoction.

 Lily was pretty excited about hers too.

 We headed to the animal area of the fair next.  Mia really wanted to ride a pony, though Lily would have nothing to do with it.  So, I loaded Mia up on a pony named Grits.  I walked next to her for two rounds and then asked if she wanted to go by herself so I could take a picture; she said that was fine.

 Such a big girl!

 After the pony ride, we headed in the tents to see more animals.  Cows (including a baby who had been born the day before), llamas, pigs, sheep, oh my...they were everywhere.  Liz had the great idea to buy an ice cream cone of food; Mia couldn't wait to start feeding all the animals!  She loved having them eat right out of her hand.

 Lily didn't want to feed any of the animals, but she didn't hesitate to pet the sweet little bunnies.

 By this point, the girls were getting tired and needed to rest a little.  I had decided not to even bother with the game area this time, so we started to head back out.  Mia asked to ride the pony again, and Lily said she wanted to ride one too.  So we made another stop by the ponies.  Lily saddled up on Pepper while Mia jumped on Hot Dog.  They both had fun on their ride.

What a fun afternoon!