Iowa State Fair

It's on the list of "Top ten things to do in Iowa" and I am pretty sure its like the number one thing....Iowa State Fair. We have been here almost three years and finally decided to go. I am always amazed at the ....errrr..."personalities" that you can see at the state fair. A big part of me thinks...how are all of these people even being able to afford to be here?!?! Sheesh, but hey it was a fun day so that was great!
 First thing- they were handing out five hour energy as soon as you walked in the gate. I swear we were bombarded by like 4 five hour energy workers.Its like they saw that we had little kids and assumed we needed like fifty of them. But hey, at 3 bucks a pop, we each took one since they were free. I personally think they taste like medicine and not worth the hype of energy they claim to exhibit. I had one goal in mind while I was there- Get a turkey leg. Don't really know why, but I have been craving one....for like years. Anywho, it was delicious. Adalie even helped me devour it. it was ginormous and we barely finished half together. But yummm. Seriously. We also tried a fried twinkie while we were there. Pretty good stuff. Although we had to split one and still felt a little sick to our stomachs from the sweetness. I am curious as to how one might eat it on their own.....and also the fried stick of butter they were serving. Not kidding you....a stick of butter, on a stick, dipped in sweet batter and fried. I saw it. We didn't get one but, Holy wow. And holy heart attack, I assume, batman. my only regret is i didn't get a picture. The kids had a great time riding some rides and seeing all the animals.



 i love this pic because the vet lady look SO excited to be there does she not??
 We even went through "A day on the farm"

which took like 40 mins to get through, but worth the free Popsicle at the end according to the kiddos. They got to ride a few rides. Adalie of course was her fearless little self

while Cason took some coaxing for almost all the rides.

 That's the ride conductor patting cason on the head telling him it will be ok every time he came around. Ya, the ride was THAT slow and easy yet he will still a little nervous about it.
Even the baby helicopter ride scared him a little and he was ready to exit after the first 5 seconds.

 Fist go around..... YAY!!!

Second go around...GET ME THE HECK OUT OF HERE!!
Oh, and there was a giant chocolate moose which smelled heavenly. I thought about taking a big bite out of its hindquarters and thinking no one would miss it, but instead just quietly walked away since people were starting to notice the drool from my mouth. 

So here are lots more pictures of our fun time!!

 Oh ya we saw this celebrity there...future VP Paul Ryan =)

 Baby ducks!! check out the freaky looking one on the upper left staring up at the watering thingy. He is seriously questioning it....

 Tractor work at the farm but dad had to do most of the kid hauling.

 Happy Baby Blue eyed Brody who was just a peach!!!

 Adalie said it felt gross

Cason tried to drink from it

 Brett and Brett Jr.

 Brett with his polish hotdog which was sadly no JDawg's...sigh

 She rode this ride twice. Like I said, fearless.

 Got my turkey leg and Adalie is saying "ooooooo delicioius" here. Which it was

 kids got to pick a toy. Cason wanted the spiderman bat, but after a little bit of thinking about who he might hit or where the heck we would keep that thing -- we exchanged it for just a little spiderman blow up doll

 All in all it was great. We had a blast and we can mark it off our list if fun things we did while we lived in Iowa.