Scrappers & Coloring - 223/365

Today Reagan was going to spend the day with Grandma. She hadn't got to see her for awhile, since they went to Maine and we went to Myrtle Beach. Reagan was so excited to see her. 

They ended up going to Austintown Park and to lunch. They had a good time. 

I did a bunch of chores around the house and listed some old clothes on Ebay. 

Brinkley stayed right near me. I got the cutest picture of him!

Mark came and patched up the bathroom wall where the plumber had to fix the pipe. He did a great job as usual. It was quite the task for him. 

I finally was able to find Reagan a coloring page from the fair. She loved coloring one last year and seeing it on display. This year, they must have only printed a couple because it was hard to find. She loved coloring it all up and "making it beautiful." She wanted to use her extra special Disney Princess Crayons from our last Disney trip. 

While we hung around the house, Jim, Greg and Nikki headed out to the Scrappers game. It was a nice, but chilly night for them. They had to break out the coats and jeans. Yikes!

They Scrappers pulled off a win at least for them! 

Our baby boy

Patched up wall

Coloring contest prep

Scrappers game!

Rotary at the Fair - 243/365

Today, Jim spent the afternoon and evening out at the Canfield Fair working for Rotary. 

He was at the Rotary tent with Rotarians from clubs all over the area. They had a number of displays in the tent that told the story of Rotary and sold bottles of water to raise money for charity. 

He said he had fun and got to hang our with new people from clubs.

While he was out there, Reagan and I played around the house and I spent some time getting some bags of stuff together for Amvets. Boy, that really makes you want to go through your whole house and clean it out. 

The first picture is Jim at the Rotary Tent at the Fair.

Next, the huge cooler of water they were selling.

My Amvets bags....

 And Reagan making funny faces to text to daddy.

Canfield Fair - 242/365

We woke up today and wanted to hit the fair!
It was a WONDERFUL surprise when I went to check on my photos and realized I won FIRST PLACE for Reagan's genie picture. I was so PROUD to see that ribbon up there. It is one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken of her. YAY!

Reagan was excited because she entered a coloring page and she ended up getting a ribbon too! YAY!

After we checked out all our ribbons, we decided to hit the kiddie rides. She took a loving to this dragon roller coaster. She wanted to ride it over and over and over. She had to ride it like 20 times. It was hilarious. She rode a couple other things, but that's the one she kept coming back to.

We had a nice day. It was way different than Disney, but we still made it work.

My first place ribbon!

Reagan's ribbon

Dragon roller coaster!

Fair time!

Canfield Fair - 245/365

It was Canfield Fair day! We love taking in the fair! 

Even though we just got home late last night, we were still looking forward to it. 

The time change is really messing with us though. We all went to bed really late, since we couldn't sleep. Then, slept in until 10:00, which is unheard of in this house. We're usually all up and about no later than 7:00-7:30. 

We got showered and headed on out. The weather was great, but a little hotter than us "Alaskans" are accustomed to. We were roasting!

We went straight to the Arts and Crafts building, to see if I got any ribbons. I usually enter 3-5 things, but with everything going on, I only entered Reagan's centerpiece from her farm party. I was so excited to see, when we finally found it, that it had won second place! Woohoo! I was so happy!

Next, we went over to the photography building. Usually, you are allowed to enter three photos, but this year, you were only allowed two. I entered my Cars Land photo from Disneyland in January and a picture of Reagan from the 4th of July. Neither one got ribbons, but it was still fun to see them hanging up at the fair.

 From there, we took Reagan over to ride some rides. We gave her the choice of what to ride first and she picked the roller coaster. What a brave little girl! She hopped right on and seemed to like it. Although, she had a look of "concern" on her face the whole time.  

 She ended up riding 5 or 6 things and loved them all.  At one ride, Jim asked her, "Do you want to ride the bunny ride, honey?" Reagan quickly replied, "They are kangaroos, dada." Sure enough, they were! She's smarter than two 30-year-olds! 

Finally, it was time to stuff ourselves. We had, fries, cheese on a stick, pepperoni roll, ice cream and fried Oreos. We did quite good!!! 

We took a spin through the duck, bunny and rooster barn. Took a peek at the sheep and cows. Found Reagan a Dora balloon and were on our way home to nap! 

This evening, I just did some laundry while Reagan and Jim played a little bit. It was a nice way to ease back into being home! 

 The photo of the day is Reagan riding the coaster... 

The next is my second place ribbon...

 

Gymnastis & the Garden - 221/365

We started our day with Gymnastics class.

 Reagan is really enjoying it! She is getting so good at forward and backward rolls, along with kicking up into a handstand. 

Today, they got to walk across the uneven bars. She was a little apprehensive, but didn't give up. I was so proud of her! She did great! 

After gymnastics, we headed up to Fellows for their Friday Family Garden Day. We love that little program. Deanna and Violet were going to be there, too. Reagan and Violet met in music class and play really good together. We got there, and were the only two families there! It was a gloomy day, but the rain had stopped. I don't know why no one else came out. It worked out because we could take our time doing our craft, and exploring the garden. The girls picked green beans, strawberries, cabbage and tomatoes. They were chowing down, what a healthy lunch! LOL! Nana even picked some beets! YUCK! 

They loved digging in the dirt and especially loved the watering cans. We had a nice visit with them. The bees even stayed away today! 

When we finished up at the garden, we went over to Friday's for lunch. We had salads and even bumped into Oscar. She sat in the booth right behind us and Reagan enjoyed peeking over and talking to her. 

This evening, I was writing out a greeting card to mail, when I was digging in my pile of stuff on the counter, looking for stamps. I came across my Canfield Fair entry books. The entries HAVE to be postmarked by August 10th to be accepted. YIKES, I almost missed it! I decided to do two photographs and two crafts this year. We've been so busy, I haven't gotten a lot of paper crafts done this year. Oh well! 

 After we hit the post office to mail my stuff, we went to the experimental farm walking path and got in 4 miles! I was happy, since the rain put a damper on our walk this morning. 

 It was a pretty nice day! 

The photo of the day is Reagan and Violet showing off the green beans they picked!

Next is Reagan walking on the uneven bars...

And finally, my last minute fair entries...