Last week was the Tillamook County Fair and we ended up going to some event on every one of the four days of the fair.
The first night, there was an evening concert that the girls all enjoyed. Country singer Phil Vasser sang for almost two hours.
Thursday, Nicolas spent several hours with Grandpa Bill checking out the tractor display.
The rest of the family spent the day helping with the 4H Legos and exploring the many craft projects.
Friday was the day that all the children had bracelets to ride on the carnival rides. They rode on most of the rides; Alexa and Emily even took Nicolas with them on some of the less wild rides.
We took a break from the rides to enjoy a little of the fair food and while we were sitting at the table eating the Fair Clown road up on his small bicycle. He entertained us all with several magic tricks.
The fair ended on Saturday night with the traditional Demolition Derby. It ended after dark with all the cars as steaming, non-functioning wrecks in the middle of the field.
We had an old desktop to get rid of. Nicolas helped! The disk drive and motherboard will never be the same again! Lets hope that he understands that laptops don’t really need this level of help!
Found this on the shelf at the grocery store here in Bozeman MT! Had to buy some; it was quite good. So… we bought some more!!
I (Doreen) made a trip to Montana in March to help my parents out. My father needed a minor operation and someone had to stay with my mother, so I was elected to do the job. I actually had a great time with my mother: visiting and reminiscing about our large family growing up in Oceanside, California. We did have a fun time as children even though we fought like cats and dogs much of the time. With 9 of us young ones it is a real surprise that my folks as still around and sane.
After dad returned home from the hospital I stayed around for another two weeks just to make sure that I was no longer needed. I spent the time with our oldest daughter, Ginger, and our grandson Mauricio. Mauricio is only three and he is already putting letters together to form words!! His latest is finding those letters on the computer and sending off those words in e-mails to me. Well his mom has to help to get the e-mails sent of course.
Here is Mauricio forming words with his blocks.
And here he is typing an e-mail to grandma, me.
It was very cold, -9º F for several days (ignoring the “wind chill” factor!!), and we got dumped on by snow several times while I visited. When it warmed up enough for outside play, Mauricio found a nice puddle in the street to jump into.
I was very glad to return back to Panama where the weather is warmer, although it took me a few days to really thaw out. Guess that I am no longer used to the cold and snow.
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