McKenna singing at the Fair

 

McKenna had the opportunity to sing the National Anthem tonight at the Junior Livestock Rodeo.  She did awesome, despite her nervousness.  I am so proud of her and her talents and what she has been able to do with them to bring her this far.  This opportunity of her being an attendant to the Miss Sanpete County Teen has opened so many doors for her and I can only hope it will continue open so many more for her.

 

 

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!

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!

SCF - Fireman Challenge & Chalk Throw

Today was day one of crazy for these girls for the next few days.  Today started early afternoon, as the royalty showed up for some fair fun.  Their job today was to mingle with people attending the daily fair activities.  One of the very first things the Miss Teen royalty was able to participate in was the Dutch Oven contest.  They took first place in the Chili contest, hence them being the only entry in that division.

 

 

Afterwards they were able to attend the Fireman's Challenge.  All the royalties in attendance were able to ride in the arena on one of the many fire trucks there for the challenge.  They were announced and then they sat back and enjoyed the show!

 

 

 

After the Fireman's Challenge, came the long awaited Chalk Throw!  These girls had so much last year that they couldn't wait to participate again.  McKenna came home covered head to toe in chalk.  She had so much chalk in  her hair that she had to wash, brush, and wash several times over in order to get all of that off her scalp and out of her hair.  Even her clothes needed several washings before we got all that color out!