Taking the Bull by it's Horns

A couple weeks ago our neighborhood had a block party on it's "main street" - we didn't have a lot of time to cruise it since we had a wedding to get to that afternoon...but we did stay long enough for Zane to ride the mechanical bull!  He waited in line quite awhile to do this and of course had a blast!

Remlinger Farm

We have been wanting to check out Remlinger Farm for a very long time and thanks to Groupon for having a great deal recently we had no excuse but to go check it out!  We really lucked out with the weather today too!  I'd hardly call this place a farm as there is one small barn with a few animals...otherwise it's just full of fun rides for the kids!  I'm not complaining though!

He LOVED his first roller coaster!

Do the Puyallup

Apparently the state is doing a big push to have folks no longer call the Puyallup Fair the Puyallup Fair, but to call it the "Washington State Fair"...not gonna happen Washington, not gonna happen - sorry, but nice try!

My good friend Karena and I decided to get the boys together today and thought going to the Puyallup Fair would be the fun thing to do - we were right.  We weren't counting on it being almost 90 degrees when we made these plans a few weeks ago, but I'm not really complaining...just kind of. It was so flippin' hot today - there is very little shade and the sun beating off of the pavement was almost enough to make me cry!  I love the heat, don't get me wrong, but this was just torture today! All of the kids did great - it was just us mom's complaining, but boy did we go through a lot of water!

The kids enjoyed the heck out of rides, food and fun today!  Both Luke and Zane got Dizzy Passes, so they had unlimited rides - I just bought Landon $20 worth of tickets and thankfully that turned out to be just enough!  He isn't as excited about rides as Zane is - but he does like to go on them, but is usually done with them a lot quicker.  Zane will go on any ride that he's tall enough for and will go on it 100 times if he can - he's like his mama!

Waiting in line to drive the cars - his favorite ride of course!

He rode this twice.  They didn't accept single riders, so thankfully he turned on the charm to this girl!

Such a good big brother taking Landon on the train ride AGAIN - he loved it!

Another good friend Jen lives very close to the fairgrounds so to save a few bucks, I parked at her place and the boys and I walked down her huge hill to the fair...I knew walking back up that thing in 90 degrees wasn't going to be fun - but it would be worth it to save the dough for rides instead!  But thankfully Karena took pitty on us and drove us back to Jen's to my car :)  Obviously the boys didn't have their booster seats, so they thought there were tough stuff sitting in the back seat just buckled in! It was a short ride, no one call CPS on us :)