2012 NMSF by Denny Lynn

It's fair time! Mama and Daddy usually have to work up at the State Fair, so we get to trade out and visit the fair! We spend some time around the horse barns of course!

I even got to help water the horse in the Horse Council stall.

We learned about sheering sheep and spinning wool.

And we discovered my new favorite thing - Pig Races!!

They pick team leaders for each race and I got picked the second go round. I chose the blue flag of course!

It is the team leader's job to wave the flag and cheer our team pig on!

The blue pig won and I got a prize! It was very exciting and all I wanted was to go to more pig races, but Mama and Daddy said we had to wait until the next day.

We found other cool kid activities in the Dairy Barn - we made coffee filter flowers using watercolors.

We milked the cow.

And we experimented with making music.

We ran into Winnie the Pooh out on the street and took time out for a photo.

We found great animals at the FFA Red Barn!

And we ran into old friends! Patrick and CJ were visiting the fair with Ms. Magan while their Dad was working, too.

We took a little time to check out the 4-H exhibits - Mama calls this working.

I posed as a goat in the Ag Building.

And we played in the corn pits in the Ag Building and Dairy Barn.

My big plan for Sunday was to tour McDonald's Farm. Lucky for us, Patrick and CJ were going, too!

We started off by picking apples...

...then took a tractor ride! I helped Patrick when his got stuck.

We gathered eggs...

...and milked another cow - this one with a milking machine.

We got to try it out on our finger to see what it feels like for the cow to be milked.

We took the vegetables we harvested and filled up the bins for the grocery store. Then it was time for treats and the next adventure.

We headed down to the Natural Resources Building. We thought the snakes were pretty cool. I will have to ask Uncle Shawn what happened to all the other animals!

I was glad to see Smokey Bear again this year - I remembered him from last year.

The State Land Office was making a hand wall and we stopped to add ours. I chose blue as usual.

Then I wrote my own name!

We showed Patrick the trains...and didn't want to leave.

One more trip to the pig races and it was home for us while Mama finished up her work. We have so much fun at the fair each year. Stay tuned...we have another one coming up!