County Fair Time!

The beginning of the week started off normal enough.  Our regular choice of activities given this heat.  On Tuesday we walked to the swimming pool like we always do, but upon entering the gate I realized at once that something was gravely wrong.  There, struggling in the water, was a little lizard.  The poor little thing! Kylie and I immediately jumped in the water and scooped him up.  We laid him on Kylie's kickboard and placed him in the sun - then proceeded to poke him to see if he was still alive.  (How does one provide resuscitation to a lizard the size of a finger?)

After explaining to Kylie several times that we could NOT take the lizard to an animal doctor, we saw that he was breathing.  Success! We watched him for a few more minutes as he breathed and flinched, and then in the most dramatic of exits he gasped for air, and then flip flopped to his back, legs splayed in the air.

Our little lizard had just given Kylie and Hayden their first glimpse of how fleeting life is.

The agony! The horror!!  The awkwardness of explaining to the kids that the lizard was, in fact, dead and not sleeping.  We then placed him on a rock amidst millions of other rocks and succumbed ourselves to the fact that the lizard is now bug or bird food. With heavy hearts we continued swimming and tried to live our lives as normal, like our little lizard friend would want us to.

Thus ends my dramatic re-telling of our little lizards fight for life.

On Thursday we tried something new: the county fair!  We hadn't gone in years past because the kids were too little to enjoy it, but this year I felt they were ready!

We had to walk through all the food trucks, shopping booths, and barn area before he made it to the amusement park rides.  They were having the goat contest when we went through the barn, and Kylie and Hayden really enjoyed petting all goats.  The next event was the kids turn to show off their goats, and they were getting them all dressed up in fun costumes.

Kylie and Hayden were super excited to ride some rides!  We had lots of fun watching them experience the rides together.  I am glad they are so small that they could sit together on most of the rides.

Afterwards we got something to eat and played on the playground they have there and then dragged our obviously tired but in denial children home.

This weekend we also did something new:  we bought a car!  Brandon's two cars are just costing so much in repairs that we figured it would be better to get rid of them and get a nicer car that we wouldn't have to worry about.  So we found a Honda Pilot that everyone liked and we brought it home Saturday.  Now all Brandon can talk about is going camping.