2011 Jackson County Fair

[cretahillsgal]

It was fun, but Im glad it is OVER! Of course our first board meeting for next year's fair is tonight, so we are already busy again.

I didn't get pictures of everything, but got some.

My own kids made out like bandits with all their wins.

They had 1st & 2nd place Christmas Ornaments.

1st place peanut brittle

3rd place choc chip cookies

2nd & 4th crayon coloring page

1st with a concrete, hand-print stepping stone

Grand Champion Buck Rabbit

Res Grand Champion Buck Rabbit

Grand Champion Doe Rabbit

Many other 1sts with their other rabbits

1st and Grand Champion Rooster individul

Best In Show with their Trio of Buff Brahma Bantam chickens

Both got 1st in their division of the tractor pedal pull

Both got 1st in their classes in the pet show

And we got 4th with our very first goat ever

Carson with his guinea pig, Blaster, in the pet show

Carlee with one of our weanlings, Dahlia, in the pet show. Not a great pic of Dahlia.

Carson showing Treasure, his goat doe.

Another goat show class

 

[cretahillsgal]

Fellicity, another one of our goats in the petting zoo.

Wilby, our pot-bellied pig in the petting zoo.

Dahlia in the petting zoo. We only let the kids in so many at a time, but the others in line were petting through the fence.

Another of Felicity in the zoo.

We had baby chicks for the kids to hold.

 

[cretahillsgal]

Felicity and Dahlia getting a break Friday afternoon.

Winner of beautiful baby contest. This is actually my college roomate and her little boy.

Another beautiful baby contestant.

Some of the chicken entries.

Some of the rabbit cages.

 

[cretahillsgal]

Carson in the tractor pedal pull.

And his trophy. LOL

Carlee with her 1st place prize in the pedal pull.

We had a dunk tank, and this is our county 4h extension agent in it. Just before my son dunked him. LOL

Carlee on the giant blow up slide. My kids had all day passes for the whole weekend and got their money's worth on it.

 

[cretahillsgal]

Thats all the pictures that I have. I didn't get any of the non-livestock entries. Or the other competitions like the beef, swine or lamb show. We also had martial arts demonstrations. Working cattle dog demonstrations. Farmhand olympics. Turtle and weenie dog races. And a crops contest.

 

[REO]

Wow the kids are sure growing fast!

You sure were busy but you did a great job! And you're doing it again next year? A glutton for punishment LOL!

That Dahlia sure is a cutie! You could put her on a keychain

Pet that piggy for me!

 

[cretahillsgal]

HaHa!!! Im gonna bring Wilby to your house for you to take care of until next years fair!

 

[REO]

HaHa!!! Im gonna bring Wilby to your house for you to take care of until next years fair!

LOL! Go ahead!!!!

K would have him on the couch watching TV! He loved that pig! And of course I'm handy to rub himself on! (I mean the pig!) That was too funny!

 

[Jill]

I love these pictures

:wub

 

[Marsha Cassada]

It is folks like you, Julie, that make county fairs work.

Sorry I can't offer to keep the pig. We were out driving one day in town and some people had theirs out for a walk. Dapper Dan was terrified.

 

[cretahillsgal]

LOL Marsha! When he first got here, I put him in a pen next to the pasture that the mares are in. They had to walk past his pen to come in to the smaller pen where I feed. And a couple of the mares were terrified and wouldnt get within 20 feet of him. It was funny to watch them. Of course it only took them a couple of days and now he is old news.