The Fair and Other Fun

Melanie invited us to go with her to the Utah State Fair again this year. Fourth year in a row now and this year was Tai's year to really love seeing all the animals.

She tried real hard to drag me back to the rides, but we didn't do any of those. I will have to take her on a Ferris wheel soon though.

 

 

The first animals we saw were the pigs and I could not get Tai to pet one. Even though she STILL talks all about her piggy birthday party. After we saw the pigs though she was all about petting the rest of the animals.

Grandma Mel even showed them that they could feed the sheep.

I love how excited Kasen was to stand in front of this fan!

And this kid, he was so proud of those pigs and was sure that I was trying to take his portrait. He kept looking at me, all smiles ready for me to take his picture when really I just wanted him to get the heck out of the way.

We walked through the Little Hands on the Farm again this year and they got to milk a cow, brush the sheep, gather chicken eggs, pick apples, gather vegetables, ride a tractor etc.

At the end the kids all got a dollar for their store to buy one treat. Well, I was helping Tai and was not aware that Kasen looted the store and took as many treats as his arms could carry. He got a granola bar, an apple and 2 little cereal boxes. My bad...

We learned our lesson about how expensive food at the fair is so this year we stopped at Wingers with Kyley and Jordan on the way home.

 Cozette dyed my hair for me again this month! Even darker, per Kyle's request. My hair color is now 2 shades away from black, but I like it dark.

Nefertity Martinez Dickson, Daphne LeBaron, Me, Whitney Poast Breinholt, Kristina Coil McNeill, Jenny Hunter Moreira

 I also hosted a Brasil Campinas Mission, Sisters reunion! I had hoped more of us would have come, but I had 3 of my 8 companions there at least. It was so fun to catch up and talk about the mission and Brasil and the people. Even though I'm too embarrassed to even try speaking Portuguese anymore.

We all pitched in to have a yummy Brazilian meal together though. That was delicious. I made stroganof and we had rice, pao de quejo, passa tempos, guarana, and suco de laranja e acerola (my all time favorite juice). Later we did a Skype call with President and Sister Tanner in California.

It was such a great night.

And today Kasen was in his first little primary program in Sacrament meeting at church!

My parents all came to watch him, but he didn't sing very much. He did some awesome finger goggles while he was standing up there though.

I love that they didn't have the kids just read written parts during the program. The few kids that had parts came up and just spoke their own words about their favorite story of Jesus or about their baptism. I loved that they bore their personal testimonies!

It's why I love hearing Kasen pray all by himself. Their simple testimonies are powerful.