Alto Fair

Wow - last week was yet another great year at the Alto Fair. For those of you not familiar with "the fair" - it is located outside the little town in which I grew up. It's held on a Wed & Thurs, is less than a quarter mile long and has no beer tent (some may have thought this was a staple at a fair). I like to go home every year for this fair. It's a great time to spend with family, see friends from high school that I may only see at "the fair", there is great food (and inexpensive) and even if you think I'm nuts - I love it :) It's even more fun now that I get to bring our kids. Brian was only able to join us for part of the day on Thursday before leaving for work meeting in Chicago. A big thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Kok for helping me out with the kiddos.
Thanks to Uncle Marv and Aunt Karen for letting us come to their house to watch the parade.

I loved it when the parade people threw candy! I got to eat this sucker! MMMMMMMM.

Alayna sat back in the shade with Aunt Sheila

The ride home after the parade was less than a mile but Grant fell asleep after eating a few strawberries

Here are some of the animals...Grant liked to pet the bunny...but not so much when it came to the calf

Then - on to the rides. Grant went down the big slide and on the Merry-Go-Round with Grandpa and cousin Brayden. Thanks Grandpa!

While we were taking some rest time at Grandpa and Grandma's house, Alayna took in some cereal. Well...I don't know how much she really "took in" but we sure tried. We attempted rice cereal for a second time - this time - NO RASH. YEAH! We also tried oatmeal for the first time. That went well too!