A birthday and the Morgan County Fair

This past week was the Morgan County Fair. And boy did it keep us busy! Wednesday night it started off by taking the pigs over. Emery was mesmerized watching Shayli and Ashley wash them. They were squealing like crazy and she couldn't figure out what was going on. That night was also the ATV rodeo, but we skipped out on it. Thursday we spent most times with the pigs, Shayli showed her pig and won Reserve Grand champion Showmanship. She did really good! Especially since she is in the Senior division this year, which means she is one of the youngest showing. Then that night we went to the Demolition Derby. (I was really bad at pictures this weekend :)). 

Friday was Jake's birthday! He is 26 now. Getting old :) He went to work for a few hours in the morning and then came back to spend the rest of the day with us. 

We of course had to spend lots of time walking through all of the animals. Emery loves animals so much. She was in heaven with all of these rabbits, ducks, chickens, turkeys, pigs, lambs, steers, and more. She loved the fair. 

Emery was in the 'Diaper Derby' crawling contest. She did awesome! She won her heat. It was hilarious though, she proved her OCDness to us even more. She took off and was going great (see above) and then she came across a piece of red tape on the mats...she stopped dead in her tracks. She tried to pick it off and couldn't get. I kept trying to get her attention to finish since she only had about 1 foot left to go. But she couldn't leave it. She would start to and take a couple steps and then turn around and crawl back to it and try to get it off. Everyone was laughing so hard. Finally I just took the red tape off the mat for her and she was fine and finished and won!

Then it went to the finals. It was between these three girls. By this time Emery was not interested at all. She was watching the lady next to me. That little girl with the blonde hair just took off and left her in the dust, haha. We were proud that she at least won the first time :)

Emery just kicking back watching everyone else crawl, haha. 

After the contest we headed down to Payson for my cousin's wedding. We stopped for a birthday dinner for Jake at Red Robin first of course. It was so good to see everyone. It was funny when we went through the line the parents of the guy my cousin married stopped me and were like I have never seen such a close family. How do you do it? It is really true, and I LOVE it. It was actually my 3rd cousins wedding...but we have never thought of it that way. We have a huge family and everyone is close! 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th cousins starting with Emery's generation. But it doesn't matter to us. It all family and we wouldn't have it any other way!

Saturday was spent at the Livestock Auction, Shayli's pig sold for $1150. $50 more than year which was really good, most people's sold for less than last year! Then that night we ended with the Rodeo. Unfortunately Emery didn't go to the rodeo though. We were grateful we didn't have to chase her the whole time to be honest...we wouldn't have gotten to see much! Emery got to have a sleepover with Grandma that night, while the rest of us went to the rodeo! The poor girl got a cold and was up all. night. long. My poor mom and dad got a taste of parenthood again, haha. I don't think that's what they bargained for with grandkids, but they didn't mind at all. The cold came out of no where, she was perfectly fine all day on Saturday. She is on the mend though :)

Sunday we got to celebrate Jake's birthday a little more! I made him a cake, Banana cake with Blueberry Filling and Cream Cheese frosting. It was delish. 

This girl is so silly. 

This picture makes me laugh so hard. She gave Jake this look after he blew out the candles. She wasn't happy at all. haha

Happy Birthday Jake! We love you lots and lots!