Playing Fair

It's fair time, which means our youngest son and his wife come into town with their 'Totally Nuts' kiosk and set up shop in our valley's Sun Dome.

This will be their second year selling cinnamon roasted nuts during the 10 day run of our annual Central Washington State Fair.

Our oldest son and his wife wanted to get in on the action and  came from Idaho to help them, leaving us to help with their boys.

I'm pretty sure we got the better end of the deal.

While they spent their days roasting and selling nuts we spent ours enjoying the fair with the twins. 

The husband and I have season passes to the fair, a yearly birthday gift from the husbands mother. 

She knows us all too well and how much we love going. 

With a pass, we will typically attend the fair for dinner and spend an hour looking around before heading home, then repeat again each night after, seeing something different every time we go.

This year with the boys, we enjoyed it through what 4 year olds like to do.

Our oldest son missed his calling as a 'carnie' and became a cop instead but when it comes to the fair and the bottle game, his inner desire comes alive.

He has perfected the art of standing a tipped bottle upright with a ring attached to a fishing pole. 

Once night while working in his brothers kiosk, he'll take a time out to play the bottle game.

Each night he wins an over sized stuffed animal

Although the family is very proud of him, I'm glad he didn't run away with the fair circuit.

His boys decided to give it a try and to say the least, 

I'm glad they are a work in progress, because at the rate their dad is going we are going to have a stuffed animal farm on our hands.