Huntington Family: Fair, Fowl, and Fireworks

LaGrange had their mini fair on June 22nd. The day started out with a pancake breakfast and then a parade.

Dassah got to ride in a fire truck and toss candy. When given the choice of riding with Daddy or watching the parade with Mommy, she chose riding.

At noon there was a lunch of hotdogs and hamburgers. Dassah's making a silly face.

Obi has the cutest expression.

After a short rest at home, we went back out and got our face painted.

Kids around town also made stick horses and had races.

Showing off her horse.

I tried to paint Obi's face.

We headed back home and about an hour later, we had a storm move through with hail and a tornado warning. We got to hide in our basement for a while.

Daddy built a better door for our chicken coop.

Dassah helped stain it.

While Dassah helped paint, Obi crawled around and inspected the weeds.

I picked him up to keep him out of the goat heads.

Dassah loves to pose. "Take a picture like this, Mommy!"

"Take a picture like this!" Dassah gave me about a dozen poses to take pictures of.

Obi loves to be dirty.

But although he loves dirt, he also loves baths and showers.

Dassah like wearing a nightgown to bed. The one she has is starting to get small so I made her a new one. It's big, so it should last a few years.

Another picture of the nightgown

Simon came out to inspect the chickens. One pecked him and he quickly ran off.

"Dirt! Such wonderful dirt!"

A close up of a chicken.

All eight chickens.

LaGrange does their fireworks on July 3rd. They have an ice cream social to start the celebrations. We went and filled up on sweets, then went to a friend's house for a barbeque and watching fireworks.

I gave Dassah several sweets. She only ate the cupcake and half a cookie.

Since Daddy is a volunteer firefighter, he was stationed with a truck, taking donations for next year's fireworks. He just happened to be stationed right next to the friend's house where we went for the barbeque.

All done eating. Time for fun!

Dassah played football with her friends.

Obi found a little pile of dirt to play in.

Waiting for fireworks

Playing with toes

All the kids got glow sticks to play with.

Someone didn't make it until the fireworks.

Still waiting.

I had to pass Obi off to someone so I could take Dassah potty. He woke up and was watching the fireworks with them, but when I took him back, he started crying at each firework.

I have named these two roosters Soup and Stew because they are always going at each other. The more aggressive the rooster, the quicker they will end up being dinner.

Fourth of July, the kids ended up napping on the couch together.

Pinwheels! Or as Dassah calls them, "Windmills".

We went to a barbeque with our church family.

Happy fourth of July!

We didn't stay to watch fireworks with them because then we would have arrived home around midnight. Instead we came home and set off a couple of our own fireworks.