Day at the Fair

I am totally out of order with my posts right now, but that is what happens when you take 9 days off.

A couple of weekends ago we went to the not so huge Westmoreland Fair. We had so much fun hanging out as a family and spending time with our new friends, the Frohlings. Makaylee and Caleb light up whenever they see Chip and Lucia, so an outing with them is always desirable.

We saw all the animals

Danced



played games

and then enjoyed the rides

I was so proud of my little man. He road the bull.

I thought sure it would be another 30 minute wait with no reward at the end, but he did it. He cowboyed-up and got on. Of course, he only stayed on long enough to figure out how to get off without injury, but HE DID IT!!

Goin Do Hockey

This is the second time we have been ice skating as a family, so there was much improvement from our previous outing. However, I don't think the Ruiz family will be winning any golds at the 2010 Olympics. We had a really good time and Caleb absolutely loved it. He really wanted to just stand on the ice. I think the feeling was fascinating to him. After he risked skating a few feet on his own and fell down he determined he thoroughly enjoyed crashing and wanted to do it again and again.
Thankfully, the cold wet hands deterred him.



Grandma and PaPa were there and held Makaylee and she watched intently as we skated several laps around the rink.



"Faster Dadda faster," was frequently chanted.

Every so often, Cory and I would take turns going around on our own and towards the end we really started trying to show off our stuff until I tried doing a turn and almost crashed into the oncoming traffic. I highly recommend "Goin do hockey" as Caleb would say, if you are looking for a fun outing as a family.
The only thing that was difficult was prying a 2 year old who didn't want to leave off the rink.



I bribed him with throwing money in the water which is always one of Caleb’s favorite things to do.





Then Cory and Grandma taught him to duck walk and it was all smiles again.