Weekend Fun

Last Sunday we took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed up to the State fairgrounds to attend Oregon AgFest. For those of you who haven't ever heard of the event, it's basically a giant farm day, with lots of hands on activities. The best part is that it's free for kids, we adults pay just a small entrance fee.

Weston really enjoyed looking at all the farm equipment outside and getting a ride from the tractor over to the livestock area. Typical of Weston, when we got to where all the animals were, he wasn't the least bit interested in the horses, sheep, llamas, etc. All he wanted was to go talk to and pet the cows....the Holstein's were of course "Avo's cows" and all the other ones were "Daddy's cows".

Tyge hung out in the stroller most of the day, just enjoying the sunshine. Weston got to dig for potatoes, milk a cow, and plant and take home a pumpkin start. Interested in the story behind this picture.......well, an FFA group had five pedal tractors set up and kids could race each other, three laps around on a roped off circle track! Weston saw what was going on, and although I knew I would end up pushing him since he wouldn't pedal himself (we're almost there), we got in line. He waited really patiently, watching two other groups go ahead of him. Soon it was his turn, and he was head of the line so he would get first pick at the color tractor he wanted. The FFA member told him, "ok, go pick out your tractor" and what did he do....bee lined it, right past all the pedal tractors and straight to the big tractor on display in the middle. Unfortunately we left with him kicking and screaming since he wasn't allowed to take the big tractor for a drive. But at least everyone, including ourselves, got a good laugh.

Today we didn't have as good of weather. Although drizzly, we spent this Saturday afternoon in our little town of Brownsville for the annual "Carriage Me Back" event. In the four years we have lived here we have never taken the tour to learn what our town was like 100 years ago. So we bought our tickets at the museum, hoped on the stagecoach and got a quick history lesson. Along the way there were stops with towns folk telling us of what they were up to; two women who were lobbying for the right to vote, a few men headed to work at the woolen mill. Our stop ended at the Moyer House, where we learned about the problems of the "rich folk" in town....such as some local politics and their concern that their kids can't get their waltz steps perfectly. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so I had to steal some pictures from the city website!