We went up to Kansas City this weekend to visit some friends of ours who are currently stationed near there. Royal was able to get some fishing in and caught his first Kansas bass. Yipee! Jessie however caught a bigger one. :) Jessie fried ‘em up and it wasn’t too bad.

On Saturday, we decided to take the kids to the Leavenworth County Fair. Laura and Jessie have 2 little girls, Abby (5) and Martha (13mo). I have to say, the Leavenworth County Fair, in a little town called Tonganoxie, is about as good as anything Shelton could put on. There was a demolition derby going on when we showed up, so there were lots of Kansas rednecks for us to mingle with. We ate hotdogs and funnel cake and rootbeer floats, checked out the fair animals, and of course went on rides.
First was the goats. Abby loved the goats, Jayden pretended they didn’t really exist.

Next came the stinky pigs. Jayden really didn’t care for the pigs, especially the ones that weren’t laying down sleeping.

Now, the cows, the cows were different. Jayden loved the cows, he kept mooing at them. I think he was actually talking with them because they were all mooing back at him. This is Jayden’s ‘cheese’ face.

The geese, ducks, chickens, and roosters were even better than cows for Jayden. He was finally warming up to this whole fair experience. He did a lot of yelling at the them, ‘Hey ducks! Hey chickens! Cock-a-doodle-doo!!!!’ Then, we moved onto the final barn, the bunnies. Oh, happy day, the bunnies. There were small, soft, they didn’t make loud noises at you, or smell really bad. To Jayden, they were like a small and nicer version of Scooter, and he just wanted to love on ‘em.

Next, we hit the rides. Jayden, well all the kids really, loved the carousel. We had to take 2 trips on that. Jayden also decided to spend his ride tickets driving a little red jeep around with Abby, which I found out later, Jayden thought was a train. And that kinda makes sense, since all the cars are hooked together and following each other around.

The Sessom girls hit up a ride on the ferris wheel.

And finally, for the grand finale, these are some of my favorite pictures. Jayden wanted to go down the super slide. So, Royal paid the tickets and took Jayden to the top of the slide and got situated.

When Jayden came off the slide, I asked him if he liked it. He said yes real enthusiastically, like he loved it. Royal said that Jayden didn’t seem like he was scared, like he liked it. However, the picture shows a bit of a different story. It looks to me like Royal loved it, and Jayden is scared out of his wits.

Jayden is just a crack up. :)