Family Fourth!

The Fourth of July is big business for the Schneider/Austin/Johnson clan.  This summer midpoint is always one of the highlights of the year.  After the great holiday rainout of 2013, we deserved the gift from Mother Nature that was this PERFECT fourth of July long weekend. Taking a page from the Four Austins playbook, here's the holiday in pictures - sans descriptions, because honestly they sort of speak for themselves anyway.  These are all straight off the 'ole iphone, but that's just gonna half to suffice ha. (See HERE and HERE for my sista's pics off her big girl camera.)

My hometown county fair

I have some really fun memories of "Fair Week" growing up. A lot of my friends did 4-H, so the week of the fair was a big deal for everyone. I guess I just sort of assumed growing up that the week of the county fair was a local holiday in every corner of the country, and it's a little sad that it isn't. Because really - where else is it totally cool to eat "fried cheese on a stick," pay $4 to ride a "live pony," go for a world record for most rotations in a single ride with your kids, practice target shooting with a park ranger, get stuck at the top of a ferris wheel one to many times,  buy a box of salt water taffy that you watched them pull and cheer with a full bandstand when a woman wins the demolition derby?!

Needless to say, we were ALL IN when Grandma & DD suggested a weekend trip home to hang at the Greene County Fair. Who knew we'd end up closing the place down at 10pm!  Enjoy the highlights, then promise me you'll find yourself a fair next year!

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