4 Generations, Great Grandma's Party, Dance, The Fair!

 Four generations!

 Yes, the girls are in pajamas. This was right before we walked out the door to take the kids home to bed. 

 Chelsea had an outdoor dance performance at Magic City (video posted on facebook and youtube). Grandma Heit along with Randy and Greg came to see the fun as well. 

 I'm gonna get those fingers!

 Over the 21st and 22nd we (minus Rick) headed to Fargo to visit with family and celebrate my grandmother's 85th birthday. Starting at the left we have Paul (my dad's bro) with his wife Debbie, their daughter Megan, Grandma, and circling around we have Mary (my dad's sis), Matt (Paul's son) and Beth.

 My Aunt Terri (another one of my dad's siblings-there are six siblings counting him) and my mom.

 Someone was sleepy after a trip to the sauna, I mean, chapel on Sunday. This is at the actual celebration for Grandma.

 There were several kinds of yummy cake, which the girls were happy to sample.

 Isn't she cute? My grandma, I mean. :P

 A little bit of the family history (provided by my parents) was on display.

 This was definitely a geared-for-adults party, but luckily the girls did well. Aunties and Grandma helped out with keeping the little ones occupied.

 Abby earned lots of fans with her general cuteness. Sleeping was a big hit. Also her surfing routine, where she stands up in the middle of the floor all by herself and tries to stay balanced. She also had to do a modified bear-walk crawl with that dress on. Her popping blue eyes scored lots of admirers as well.

 Another sibling, my Aunt Maureen is in the striped shirt. The man with the patterned shirt on the right is an old family friend, but I don't know his name.

 And we are moving on to the fair photos! The big girls got to go with Daddy one day. They had lots of fun visiting with the animals.

 Brie is still a couple of inches too short for most of the rides, but there were a few that she could do.

 I love this shot! Notice her foot all wrapped up. She somehow cut the bottom of her toe right where it bends over the weekend in Fargo. I don't know how, but she did!

 This slide thing was pretty good, too.

 Kid sized tea cups!

 Chelsea got to perform a second outdoor performance, this time at the fair! This brought us in for a second trip to the fair (mommy's first trip this year). So we did a few more activities.

 Abby got to come along for her first trip to the fair. She didn't get to go on any rides. Or play in the sand box, like the other two. (She eats it.)

 Good thing we didn't have to pay for these two to get into the fair and play in the sand, hehe.

 A nice air conditioned play area just right for the little ones.

 What trip to the fair is complete without a visit to Daryl's Racing Pigs?

 Cute little porkers on their first run.

 For the second run, they put silks on the piggies and let us "bet" on which one would win. We put half of a ticket stub in a colored box corresponding to the color of the silk on the pig. They drew a ticket out of the winning pig's box.

 Who will it be?

 And it's the GREEN pig by half a length.  We had quite a few of the colors covered. My ticket stub happened to be in the green bucket. However, I was not the lucky recipient of a Tubby Burger from Tubby's food stand next to the track. 

 We also got a lesson in archery. Chelsea was shy, but excited about it still. I even took a few shots. Fun times.

 I love Abby's face here. No, she wasn't eating off the floor. She did drop a piece of cereal though. The cereal didn't last long because there was a 10 year old "No food and water" Nazi on patrol. He was very quick to enlighten us about the no food or water near the displays rule. I shouldn't say Nazi. He was very nice. Just very quick. Yes, he spotted that closed water bottle as well. hehe!

 Round two of planting sunflowers. They brought home planted sunflowers from their first trip to the fair. Unfortunately they were utterly drowned and subsequently washed away before sprouting. I'm having doubts about our current seeds as well....No signs of life as of yet...

Any trip that causes the kids to look like this, is a big success!