Fair Pageant

R in his cowboy gear!!

A along with the other winners of her pageant.

Again, I must point out how much taller A is than all the other girls her age!

I thought she looked very grown up and beautiful!!!

Our local county fair was this last week, and they always have a fair pageant as part of the festivities...so of course A and R were entered in it!! I was in the pageant when I was about T's age, and I tried to get her to do it, but she very quickly told me "No Way!". So we entered A and R. R's was a "western wear" theme...he wore Wranglers and Ropers and all that good stuff! He had a "Tough Enough To Wear Pink" Wrangler shirt...part of the proceeds go to breast cancer research, which I thought was great! A's theme was just "Sunday dress". The pageant was supposed to be on Wednesday, but because of bad weather it was postponed until Saturday. That meant we had two pageants and R's birthday party on the same day!!!! It was total chaos!!! But, it was fun even though R didn't place in this one. A didn't place, but she won "audience favorite", so she was thrilled! Her exact words were "There were like 10,000 people in the audience and only like 11 judges, so it's more important what the audience thinks anyway!" (In reality there might have been 150 people in the audience and there were 3 judges, but it's neat to hear how it looked to her!)