State Fair 2017

Another year spent at the Iowa State Fair.  It wasn't until I moved to Des Moines that I experienced the fair and now it's something I look forward to each August.  It's fun to walk around and remember previous years' memories {concerts with Adam and friends when we were dating, my cousins coming to the fair and meeting up with us between livestock shows, pushing the kids through the crowds when they were little, and of course the Big Yellow Slide each year!}  Firsts this year included losing grandpa, a ride on the Skyglider & a boat ride through the Ye Old Mill. We feel so blessed to have made this an annual tradition with my mother and father in law.

 

 

 

 

Iowa State Fair | 2014

::a month ago at the state fair::
{also, I'm clearly not good at narrowing photos down, so here are the top 100!}

Let's start with the rides.  This is the first year we've gone to the 'midway,' where the rides are. I should have guessed, after Disney the month before, she would want to ride the rides once she saw them.  I was totally ill-equipped and only had one fixed lens and my iPhone.  Plus it was the last thing we did that night, so it was pretty dark.  So get ready for blurry, but so memorable photos of my babies...

*Maybe next year we'll brave the Ferris-wheel

And of course, the food...

That's a fried Snickers bar.  My most favorite thing at the fair.  I wait all year for one of those! :)

Cullyn's first taste of mustard!

The animals....

The annual family photo! :)

And more...

Cully & Grandpa Dean

And more of the Iowa State Fair {2014}...

A new exhibit this year 'American Gothic'

The famous 'butter cow'

State Fair 2012 | State Fair 2013