Tis the Season....

Of Carnivals and Rodeos!!!

Summerfest: We attended Orems Summerfest on Friday usually i LOVE summerfest because of all of the CRAFTY BOOTHS! But this year they really didn't have that many, we were super glad we didn't wait to buy our temple picture either cause they didn't have that booth this year either :(  Nate played the game where you try and hit down the 3 milk bottles with softball.. He now thinks its rigged LOL We walked away after a round of failure... I heard that saturday the fireworks were pretty spectacular but i wouldn't know...

Art City Days: They had Art City Days and Summerfest at the time this year so we split our time mostly because we were hoping Springvilles Carnival would be a little more exciting than Orems. Good news it did not disappoint! Going with Morgan, Jenna and Madi was a good start. We played lots of great games and everyone won some awesome prizes! Madison won herself a FISH tossing a ball into those tiny water bowls. She named him Phillip. Morgan, Jenna and Nate all swung the hammer to test their strength they got themselves some Air Guitars. Nate's FAVORITE game of the night was a game where you have to break a beer bottle with a baseball. Of coarse the baseball fact grabbed his attention and the fact of knowing a baseball can break a glass bottle! He won me TWO great prizes this super cute PENGUIN and a PANDA BEAR that is holding a MINI PANDA BEAR. Nate wanted to trade in my PENGUIN but i was dead set on keeping him! But i did contemplate trading them both in for a BIG FLUFFY UNICORN!! ( spoken like the girl from despicable me!) We ended the night with some yummy food and treats and trying to stay warm while we waiting for the firework show!.... Sadly Madison's FISH Phillip Died 6.15.11 at 12:15 pm

Grace had nothing to do with the death of Phillip

Strawberry Days: This one is definitely our favorite carnival of the summer we look forward to it the most! Wednesday night we attended the RODEO with Jenna and Morgan. Which was super fun because my step brother Trevor roped in it. Sadly his calf came untied AND he broke the barrier so it added a lot of time to his score! Thursday we took my little sister Brianna to the Carnival my mom was really nervous because she didn't know how she would do. She did great and had a lot of fun! She even rode the dragon roller coaster, she did say it was really scary after.. i will take her word for it! Since Madison's fish had died she wanted to win herself a new one. Brianna won herself a fish before Madison did!! ( Nate ended up winning Madison's for her) They both ended up going home with an arm full of prizes and a big smile on their face. Friday my Dad set up his Angry Octopus bounce game in the Ace Hardware parking lot there wasn't much of a crowd so Nate was able to spend lots of time warring out his energy. Saturday we had the Jensen Family Reunion at Big Bear Park during the day Nate had fun with all of the other family members playing baseball and football, while all the girl sat and caught up with each other. After the Reunion we wanted to take his brothers to strawberry days since they hadn't been yet and it was the last day! They didn't want to do much so it was a pretty short trip! But Nate did do the Baseball Beer Bottle game one last time ( he did it every day)  He won Michael a Boxing Gorilla and the night before he had won me a BIG FLUFFY UNICORN! We walked through the boutiques one last time and since it was the evening on the last day EVERYTHING was on sale it was awesome i got all the things i wanted for a quarter of what i was going to pay the first day!

As you can tell we enjoy the summer carnivals and MOST of all the RODEOS. Trevor will be at the Lehi one next week and we are definitely going to support!