Sheridan County Fair

From July 29:

The Sheridan Fairgrounds are just around the corner from our house, so this summer Ella and I have enjoyed walking over there and checking out the livestock and happenings. Just before we left for Iowa, the Sheridan County Fair was held. Since we were busy getting ready to leave, we

were only able to get to one day's worth of activities - next year we hope we'll get to participate even more. Eleanor loved checking out all the animals, seeing the clown who was making balloon animals and climbing on the blow-up toys they had for kids to play on. Her favorite was probably the the rabbits... and we got there just in time to watch them be shown.

We also happened upon some friends of ours who were also watching the rabbit show.
And thus, we were able to hang out a bit while we looked at art projects and quilts, listened to music and watched the balloon clown do her thing.

Here's Ella peering at the goats (she loves goats - silly girl!).
Pointing to cows... and pigs... and sheep.

Riley and Eleanor jumping!

Ella bravely climbing a HUGE blow up slide. Thankfully, the gal running this station was sensative to small children vs. big boys playing on this thing. Each time Eleanor asked to go on the slide, the lady made the big boys get off and wait for her to go by herself. Ella had a blast climbing up and sliding down over and over again.