Family Fun

Football, Fair, and Family Fun is how we spent this fun-filled Saturday.  Rod and JoAnn were tending Eric and Jenna's kids for the weekend, so our kids were in heaven with cousins.  After all our chasing, it was a nice way to end the day to let these kiddos play. 

 

 Rod  had brought a load of soft sand up from the river to the corral to let the kids play in.  They spent hours building houses, rivers, and sand angels in this small pile of sand. 

SCF - Parade

So today is the last and final day of the fair.  McKenna has been here so faithfully all week, participating in all the fun and activities that she could be too.  The last day is always the very busiest, in fact, she was here at 8:30 this morning to get to work!  Trey, Lottie, Jeremy and I came up to watch the fair parade.  It was actually a really good parade, entries were great!

 

This year, McKenna and her royalty rode in the back of a pickup truck.  I felt bad because I didn't get that good of picture of them.  Usually someone at the beginning of the parade grabs one, but everyone was so busy, they didn't get one either.  I guess its good that we have plenty of other picture of them during the week, that the parade is just a minor one to not have!

We were sitting right in the sun, so Trey and Lottie were excited to see the guy with the hose spraying people down!  Trey asked for a direct hit and boy did he get it!

 

 

 

 

Lottie and her posing skills, love her!!!

 

 

After the parade, the four of us went home and McKenna stayed for the rest of the evening.  Tonight was the second performance of the Rodeo.  Unfortunately no pictures, but McKenna had a blast.  She rode the arena for the royalty announcement, did the Nae Nae dance, threw t-shirts, and rode the carnival.  One perk to being royalty is that she received a free wristband to the carnival, so in the midst of her stuff, her and a few girls would go and ride the rides.  She came home with Dillon and Shyanne and said that she was still spinning from all the rides that she got to ride on all night!  I am so glad McKenna has had this great opportunity to service and play at the same time.  I am grateful that she has had so much fun and made such great memories.  So onto a great year with this girl and all the things she will do being apart of this year's royalty!

Football Game in Millard

Today, Trey's 6th Grade football team were up against the Millard Eagles.  Game time was at noon in Fillmore at the Millard High School football field.  These boys were  pumped to play and couldn't wait to prove to their coaches that they could win this game.  There was a bet going into today's game that if the boys won, they could shave Coach Lud's  head on Monday at practice and then Lane Wescott said he would double the score that they won by and do that many push ups at their next practice.  So with a little incentive, these boys were ready!

 

The Gunnison boys played awesome offense and defense the entire game.  They were able to hold the Millard team good enough to not let them even get a chance to score.  With about a minute left in the game, the Millard team was on their 80 yard line and had a long way to go to score a touchdown.  Their play was to throw it out to their wide receiver and  hopefully let them run a touchdown.  Well  Trey was at the right place at the right time and the ball went off the tip of the Millard players hand, right into Trey's arms.  Trey was able to catch this awesome interception and run a touchdown for his team.  He was so pumped and the boys just came into the end zone giving him high fives!

 

The smile on Trey's face was priceless and the team's reaction was awesome.  He was so  excited to finally make a touchdown, but better to intercept the ball to do so!  

 

The Gunnison boys ended up winning 32 to 0!  So bring on Monday for these boys, they can't wait to shave their coaches head and watch Lane do 64 pushups!

SFC - Fun on the Farm & Rodeo

Well, here were are, back to the fair again.  Tonight's events consisted of a tour through the livestock barn to check out the lambs and pigs.  Then we moved over to the birds, bunnies, steers, and goats.  Allyson and Lottie loved this seeing all of this tonight.  It's funny to me that they like seeing the livestock so much because we have our own livestock show in our backyard.  I guess seeing it in the capacity of the fair barns makes it that much cooler.  After seeing the animals, Allyson and Lottie decided they were ready to do the 'Fun on the Farm' tour.  This tour provide fun way for kids to see the ins and outs of being a farm hand.

 

They loved learning how to comb through wool, riding tractors, and milking the cow!  This part of the tour, they were able to sit down and see if they could get any milk out of the utter!  Both of them were able to make it work and was able to get a little bit of milk in the bucket!

 

 

 

There were able to plant pretend seeds and then see the product of what they planted on the other side.  They picked apples and pears, fed baby chicks, learned about horse tack, parts of a pig, bugs, baby chicks, etc, all in fun.

 

 

At the very end of their tour, they were able to trade the products that they picked, made, gathered, and trade it in at the Fun on the Farm market for money.  Then they were able to turn their money in for a prize, Lottie picked a pencil and eraser while Allyson picked a chocolate milk!  Both girls had a lot of fun!  The best part though was they were able to get their picture as if they were riding in a tractor!  Such cute girls!

 

 Tonight's big event for the fair was the rodeo, so it was one of the many debut's for the Miss Sanpete County's Outstanding Teen Royalty.  They have the privilege of riding around in the back of a truck in the arena and having their names be announced.  As always, McKenna had a ball hanging out with this great group of cute girls. 

 

  

 

It's nights like tonight that McKenna loves about the fair.  Even though it makes for long days, for example, getting up at 5:30 am for drill and ending the day at 11:15 pm  is sure worth all the fun!  It's good McKenna is a lot like me and can run on little sleep or days even a week like  this one would be tough stuff.   McKenna is for sure one that doesn't want to miss out on any fun!

SCF - Ag Olympics, Face Painting, Pee Wee Barrels

 

Tonight's acitivies included the Ag Olympics, Face Painting, and the Pee Wee Barrell races.  After the girls were finished helping get the Ag Olympics set up, they were able to a photo shoot with their ropes and boots.  They turned out pretty cute, McKenna was the only one that knew had to hold and throw a rope!  Afterwards, the girls went to the livestock barn and then off to the Pee Wee Races.

In the meantime, Lottie decided she wanted to participate in the Ag Olympics, roping competition.  She was pretty proud of her roping skills, even though it wasn't quite enough to win a ribbon.

 

 

When the Ag Olumpics were over, Lottie couldn't wait to get her face painted.  There were kids walking around as bunnies, horses, cats, and so Lottie wanted to be a dog.  She told the lady that she wanted it black and white, so when asked what type of dog she wanted, Lottie wanted it like our dogs.  So with much creativeness, the lady painting came up with a Blue Heeler puppy for Lottie.  Lottie loved it!  In fact, she was quite upset when someone thought she was a cat.

 

 

Allyson had actually stayed in Gunnison with her dad to watch Trey's football game.  When I saw all the excitement going on, I talked Jeremy into meeting me in Sterling to drop Ally off to me.  I knew the moment we walked in the door and she saw what she missed, she would be upset.  So the plan worked out great and Ally was able to get her face painted and hang out with Lottie and I while McKenna did her thing.  Allyson wanted to be a pretty butterfly, so it was fun to see those bright  colors arranged in such beautiful artwork on my cute little Ally!

 

 

 

 

After the Ag Olympics and Face Painting, McKenna headed over to the Pee Wee Barrel Races.  The girls and I went through the livestock barns and then over to the races.  It was fun to see and watch these fun barrel races with kids riding motorcycles!

SCF - Cowboy Poetry

Tonight's event of the Sanpete County Fair was Cowboy Poetry.  McKenna was really excited and nervous about tonight's big event for the fact that she was asked to sing the National Anthem.  Which, by the way, she did a wonderful job.  I have to say for being 14 years old and singing her own rendition of the National Anthem a Capella is pretty amazing! 

 

 

 

 

 

Afterwards we were entertained by our MC Lee Sorensen, our King Cowboy 2015 Joe Frischknecht, Awesome music by Junction 89, and many laughs and poems from Andy Nelson who had us laughing hard.  What a fun way to start the big week of the fair!

 

The fair wouldn't be the same if these two girls didn't have each other to hang out with!  They are looking forward to so many fun activities to hang out with and do this week!