The County Fair ends with a parade and CRAZY drivers….

The perfect ending to a perfect week?  Well, a parade and DEMOLITION derby, of course!  Granny Camp is always centered around the fair.  This was Tuck and Sawyer’s first Granny Camp experience but they can be assured that they will get to enjoy all this small town goodness every year.  Saturday morning was the downtown parade… Here comes the candy…   Only in a small town parade is the a semi-truck with a warning sign attached…

…followed by a dozen 4-wheelers spinning their tires in tubs of water to create a cool shower for the crowd --- PERFECT!…

That little man has some fast, yet short, legs…  

… and this is where Darrin had to start to ‘intervene’…

That tootsie roll-lovin’-sucker-catchin’-parade-cheerin’ boy was no longer a happy camper… … until the float with the popsicles came by… WHAT A GREAT IDEA AT A HOT SUMMER PARADE!!!!

Later that evening, it was time for the Demolition Derby.  I’m here to admit that I’ve NEVER seen anything like this in my life!  The only thing I’ve seen closely resemble this was an episode of ‘Happy Days’.  WOW!  That’s really all I can say.  Men putting tons of time, money, and energy into a junky car just to crash it time after time… after time… AFTER TIME into each other… I L.O.V.E.D. IT!  I know… really?  Really!  Now… I’m not saying I ever want to see any of my own children participate in this particular sport, I’m just sayin’ that this would be something I can see myself attending again next year:-)…

   

Poor ‘Cody’ had to be air lifted by front loader in order to make it out of the arena…   

Before….

…and….After….

Adam works for Grandpa Bucholtz at the hardware store and has been doing this every year since he was able to drive.  His car went to demo derby heaven but he re-assured us that he had 13 more cars waiting in his pasture for their turn in the arena.  Some guys keep cows in their pastures… Adam keeps run down hunks of metal in his…:-)… Great Job Adam! 

Granny Camp 2010 ended for the Ross kids but how can anyone be sad when this is what we got to enjoy on the ride home…

Granny Camp … Fair Time!

  Yes, you’re reading that right.  25 CENTS per ticket.  Now if you’d like to experience $1 per ticket come on down to our Sedgwick County fair…. Hellooooo airplanes…. On come the propellers…  Good thing Darrin is sitting on that side of the ride:-) … No cotton candy in a bag or plastic bucket at this fair.  Yep, that’s the real deal…. Rug burn on the forehead – don’t ask…. Got Cotton Candy? …      I can’t believe that this was my first fair experience in St. Francis.  It’s truly as if I stepped back in time.  Have you ever heard of a county owning all it’s own rides?  25 CENTS per ticket --- I just can’t get over that:-)  The townspeople work in shifts running the rides and games…. no creepy Carnies.  My kids could run and do what they wanted without me being a total wreck as to who was going to steal them.   We will be coming back:-) …Next up… the parade and DEMOLITION DERBY… oh man!

10 on 10

August 10, 2010

      

:-) …. :-(

I miss my kids:-(  They should be the ones missing me… but I miss them.

I will see all 3 tomorrow:-)

I went to buy Tucker’s school supplies today:-(

I love brand new crayon boxes:-)

I wish I could use them with him:-(

All the painting is done:-)

There are still a gazillion projects that need to be completed in this house:-(

They will have to wait because I will be bringing my kids home from Granny Camp very soon:-)

Granny Camp 2010

Ahhh…. life is good… Summer meant many things to me as a child.  But the number one thing I always remember was getting to go to Grandma and Grandpa Willey’s house for one week long with NO PARENTS.  This was my favorite part of summer. 

This is the first of many summers for my kids to enjoy the same thing.  Tucker and Sawyer have been on the farm since Sunday night.  I will go on Thursday to join them.  They are having the time of their lives… They have called about two times a day which is far less than I was expecting.  They have evidently been giving each other rides on the lawnmower.  This is safe, right?  My mother-in-law would never put my children in harm’s way:-)  I had a city grandma so this farm thing may take a few summers for me to get used to leaving them there without me, but if their phone calls are any clue to how things are going…. they’re going great!  So far they have ridden the lawn mower, caught grasshoppers, and gone swimming. The county fair starts on Wednesday so they really went up on the perfect week.  Their 9 year old cousin Cooper (from KC) is there also and the 3 of them are having the best time together.

Where is Porter?  Well, I thought I would ease Granny B into the Ross children and not throw all 3 of them at her at once.  Porter has been at his own Granny Camp over at Grandma Willey’s house the last few days.  According to the lasted reports, he is now nearly off of this…  My mom is a Wonder Woman!  I know, I know… a 20 month old still on a bottle… blah, blah, blah…. I feel guilty enough about.  He doesn’t need it all the time, just when he’s tired.  Evidently mom is having great success with him.  We’ll see how his mom does when he comes home.  The cabinet is being cleared out tomorrow!  No more ba ba’s!  Lord help me!

As soon as the older 2 left I started in on this…

The living room is now painted, the kids’ hallway is now painted, all the trim is now painted, the living room window panes are now painted, the doors to the kids’ rooms and hallway door are almost painted, and the living room tv cabinet is painted!  God Bless Grandma’s!!!!  My kids are so lucky to not only have one Grandma but two that would leap tall buildings in a single bound for them:-)  And I am so lucky to have these women by my side giving me my sanity back:-)