Ribbons, Ribbons, Everywhere

Ribbons, ribbons, from the fair!
We were thrilled when all three girls won ribbons for their fair entries! Oh, yeah... money, too. Much excitement from the home front!

We decided to enter items in the fair for fun. Also, to encourage everyone to finish projects and see other people's ideas. Winning ribbons/ money was not the motivation, but it sure was fun when it happened! (And now, is probably a motivation for next year, haha.)

Kelse pointing toward her pet scrapbook page

One of Keegan's pictures won second place!  Her decorated cookies also received second. Woo, Keegan!

 

All of Caitlyn's entries received ribbons - wow!
She received one first place, two fourth, one third, and one best of show for her recycled jean skirt!

 

Bill's mom told her sister, "the little one won everything they had," haha!
Kelsey's efforts at entering several different categories sure paid off!  All of her entries except one received ribbons. Brownies, birdhouse, Christmas ornament... they all placed.  She ended up winning almost $30, which was certainly a thrill.

 

Fun, fun - plans are already being made for next year :).

Wordless Wednesday Keegan's Winning Photo

Fair Fun

We had not been to the fair in years, and this year we made up for it by going twice (yea for free student days and library coupons! :)and delivering and picking up all of the girls entries!

 

Ready to ride!

Kelsey is making that lovely face because I told her to take her hand down from in front of her and the sun is in her eyes, haha.

One day we rode rides, the other we watched shows.  Can you guess which day this was ;)?

Once, as the girls were starting out on the tilt-a-whirl, there was no one waiting in line, so I was standing at the entry gate to take pictures.  Jokingly I called out, "Spin this way, girls!" and the sweet guy running the ride stopped the entire ride with their car right in front of me so I could take a picture. Bet the other folks on the ride just loved me ;)!

 

And this...

is (not my picture, I stole it off line because I only took my camera on ride day,)  show day!  More specifically, this is Sawyer Brown in concert. A group I loved back in the day.  I thought it would be a fun concert for the girls, too, because Mark Miller has SO MUCH energy on stage. Even though he is not the one jumping in this picture.  But he jumped plenty during the concert :). Fun times.

And more fun times...

 

 

 

Love the upside-down hair! -->

 

Why yes, that is my twelve year-old daredevil in there...

And there! Yikes!

Who knows if my heart will ever recover?

 

A little easier for mom to take -

 

Sweet smile :)

 

 

Haha, don't know why Keegan has that expression above, but it amuses me.

 

 

 

Bye for now.

Hope you had a chance to enjoy your fair, too!

Fairest of the Fair - Kelsey Rose

Although our prep time was fairly brief, Kelsey got into this idea and entered several items.  Some were projects she had already started and was encouraged to complete, and others were totally new, done just for the fair. One new one was this bird house.  With a little help from Bill, Kelse made this very sturdy, red with a porch, yellow interiored birdhouse :).  She was justifiably proud.

 

Here is her entry for "Most Unique Pet page" in scrapbooking.  It describes our cat, Mittens, including the fact that she like potato chips!

 

A cross-stitched Nutcracker for the Christmas ornament category

 

 This turned out adorable!  It is for the "decorated box" category.  I love it!  Now we simply need a little girl who is turning one, so we can put in a present and use it!

"Make your own card" category

 

Wrapped present - notice the handmade bow

 

And finally, an especially original one, a picture cube for the "made from recycled materials" category.  Kelsey had read how make a photo cube from CD cases.  And she did :).
Plus it is holding pictures of very cute girls on every side ;).  You can't beat that!

Fairest of the Fair - Caitlyn

Caitlyn went with a textiles theme, since she is into that kind of thing :).

 

 

A cable knit hat

This pic doesn't show it well, but a pair of old jeans, transformed into a skirt

A very pretty baby blanket

 

And another on the picture doesn't show well - a cute, lacy sweater (for the recycled category,) made from a hand-me-down sweater that had a hole.  She unraveled the thread, then made it into this.  Pretty cool. 

Fairest for the Fair - Keegan

Not the beauty pageant, but projects made and entered :).

 

Each of the girls entered some things and I am proud of each of their accomplishments!

As we did not come across the list of contests until 2 weeks before the deadline, there was no time to enter all the categories that they could have, but each girl did enter some.



Keegan, like her mom :), really enjoys taking pictures.
She entered a black and white and a color photograph.
She took both of these one day when she went fishing with Bill. 

My pictures don't do her pictures justice :).

The one of Bill and the other girls on the dock turned out especially well. We all love it.

Yea, Keegan!