County fair time!

This week is the county fair here in Delaware Co. Its a big deal here and the kids even get a day off school to go! I don't remember having fairs like this back in Mississippi. I guess agriculture is alot bigger up here so the county fairs are pretty big. They also have horse races where they actually bet money on each race. On Thursday the big race, The Brown Jug is held. Its crazy on that day I have heard. Of course admission on Thursday is $20 and every other day is $5 so we chose today.

We met up with Mattie and Tressa and checked out a couple of the animals.

Then we spent alittle time in the sandbox!





Then we played a game where we were trying to win a fish!
And low and behold we won a fish!!!


Then we headed over to where they keep the "special" horses. The one's that compete in the brown jug. It's crazy, they have these super nice stalls just for these horses!


We also got to take in one of the pre-jug races!


Finally it was time for a few rides!





We made a quick stop at the pet store to get food for our little friend. Somehow we ended up leaving with two other little friends! So now we have three more family members! Things come in three around our house, three family members, three dogs and now three fish! Guess we better think up some names!

Our version of Chinese school!

For the past two years Jaden has been in a music class at our FCC Chinese school but this year we decided to change things up a bit. Alot of us were not happy with where the classes were headed and did not like the fact that they wanted no parents in the class(so not happening!). Plus at the time I decided that we had had enough of the music class and there were no other classes for her age. So a few of us got together and decided we would do alittle something on our own to just expose our kids to the Chinese culture. So I took off with and we now have a curriculum and we will be meeting twice a month at my house! Yes you read that right my house! Now when we started this we thought it would be about 5 kids and their families. But then other people found out about it and if someone asked me if we were doing the usual class I told them what was going on. So after word of mouth and all we are now a happy class of 15 kids! Yep you read that right 15. We actually only had 12 this weekend because some were not able to make it. I will admit I was alittle nervous at first having so many tiny people to control but it went great! They were all so good.

We started with a few words in Chinese and the parents repeated the words and the kids looked at us like we were nuts! Then it was on to our first project which involved glue and little bits of paper and we ended with red paint! Yep paint and 12 kids. I am happy to say that no paint was spilled by the kids but of course as I was cleaning the cookie cutters I dropped one on the chair, no biggie it comes out!







After class it was out in the backyard for some phone and a tasty Chinese snack!



So everything went off without a hitch and we are now meeting twice a month. Jaden loved it and told me later "mommy I had fun with my friends at my house! And mommy, Ni Hao!" So I guess she was listening. I think we will have a good year with our little Chinese school and the more the merrier! I never thought I would be teaching Chinese!

Yee-Haw it's a horse parade!

Sunday we went over to our friend Mattie's house for a horse parade and to celebrate her Gotcha Day! We thought the parade would be rained out but at the last minute the skies cleared and it was a nice afternoon! This annual parade is nothing but horses. Jaden was so excited once it finally got under way! She also kept pointing out every time that one of the horses pooped!








After the parade it was time for food, fun and cake!