Eastern Idaho State Fair 2015

For Labor Day weekend we went to Blackfoot to spend time with family and go to the fair. Amelia and Cooper were both excited to go because they entered goods into the baking contest and were going up against each other. We headed out early while everyone was at the parade:

 Obviously we headed to the bakery building first to see how they fared. Amelia won second place with her frosted sugar cookies:

Cooper won FIRST place with his white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies! His first try! You can tell by his smile how happy he was:

 In the quick bread department, Amelia won FIRST place AND BEST IN CLASS with her orange bread:

 Cooper rounded out his victory with a slightly less-enthusiastic third place with his pumpkin chocolate chip bread:

I was so proud of both of them! I'd hoped they'd place with at least one of their entries, but never thought each entry would win. Together, Amelia won $19 in prize money and Cooper won $8.

Riding high on sweet victory, we grabbed something to eat. Cooper found he could spell his name with fries. It made him almost as happy as his first place ribbon:

We also visited the petting zoo and Amelia rode the ponies. 

After exhausting everything available at the fair, we went back to Nana and Bompa's house (after a quick stop at Wal-mart to spend their prize money) to hang out. The rest of the weekend we played with cousins, rode scooters at the church, and begged my favorite aunt Judy to sew Amelia's elastic and ribbons on her pointe shoes. It was a fun weekend!

My classes will begin on Monday, so my posts may space out a bit---but these two semesters are my last! Yay!