All is Fair

A few weeks ago, my kids and I picked up a county fair booklet while we were at the library so we could see what events we wanted to attend. When we looked through it, we all got excited about the many different categories you could enter, so we decided to make some cookies for the fair. Annie and I spent last Monday evening making some cookies. Cole was all excited to take "our" cookies to the fair I was teasing him that they weren't his cookies since he didn't help. "Yes I did," he insisted. When I asked how, he thought for a minute and then replied in a sweet voice, "I smiled at you to make you happy." Little cheeser.

The next day we dropped them off at the fairgrounds and then I got a little nervous because Cole is nothing if not competitive. I had explained to him that there are three different colors of ribbons and that blue is the best. I knew if we didn't get a blue ribbon that we would be in for all kinds of questions and anger from him, but luckily, we pulled through!

Here is Annie and I with our blue ribbon effort, S'mores Cookies...

Cole was so proud, but now we have set a high precedence for next year and he figured out that one person wins a purple ribbon and goes to the state fair. He is really going to be wanting that purple ribbon next year!

It was a pretty random thing for us to do, but the kids thought it was great fun. Not that carnival rides and cotton candy aren't enough of a draw for them, but I think they liked the fair a little extra this year.

If you would like to try out the cookies, I posted the recipe here a few months ago.