Friday night my fil came into town for business stuff on Monday. So Saturday, after a bit of a slow start, we headed out for the Montgomery county agricultural fair. I am such a sucker for ag fairs. I could spend all day looking at sheep, cows, chickens a rabbits. Regrettably, we did not make it to the chickens, but we did see the draft horse rescue horses. Oh my, what gorgeous horses. I love draft horses. We spent a good deal of time there, ate such fair delights as fried oreos and funnel cake and lemonade that SAYS fresh squeezed, but I really think is a mix with some lemons squeezed in it. The kids rode on all the kiddie rides and played games and won two fish. Rachael and Ariel got to ride the neighs.. Ariel got the fiesty pony that wanted to like gallop around the ring and wouldn't stop when it was time for the ride to stop. He was cute. A fun day was had by all.

This morning we went out to Algonkian park and went geocaching since ray's dad has a good handheld GPS. We only found one of the three caches. But it was a nice walk.. a long walk. We should have thought of all the walking they did yesterday before we walked like a mile into the woods. heh. I totally felt like we were in the middle of nowhere, but, as there is no such thing in northern virginia, we came across a park in the middle of the woods. Looking across the park, there is huge houses on 3 acre lots, almost obscured from view. Go figure. So the "sick of walking" girlies played at the park for a while and the boys went in search of the last cache. They didn't find it and we carried girlies the like 3/4 mile back. heh. Then we ate a snack and played some more at the BIG Algonkian park. Hit Costco for more coffee, which I am tempted to make now, and ate an early dinner at Buffalo Wing factory.

Then, poor Ariel. We came home, beat and just bummed around. I read the kids some books. Then Marcos stopped by and Trevor went outside. The girls went out, too. I was searching for mostquito srpay when I heard this scream from out front. Ariel had accidentally closed Ray's huge heavy truck doors on her fingers. OMG. Poor baby girl! Ugh. They swelled up huge and looked nasty and she was screaming and crying. Thankfully, I don't think they are broken. Not having insurance will keep you from rushing to the hospital. We put ice on them and I felt them all over. They are nasty swollen, but don't feel broken. And she can bent them. She is sleeping now, she was exhausted anyway. I felt bad for Ray's dad, too, who had been outside with them and he apologized for not being right there. But, it would have happened had I been there, too. We can't always been assisting our kids. They open the car doors and get things from the car all the time. So he shouldn't feel guilty. Ray should be home in a moment with some motrin to help with the swelling. I guess we will have to wake her up. I hate to have her nap and wake at 10pm.

Tomorrow we start out "school schedule". I'm trying to help them get into a new routine where they wake, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth and empty the dishwasher BEFORE doing anything else. Then we'll like take a morning walk or something to get into the routine of getting out some energy before heading to school. It will also get me into the 6:30am get a move on routine, since I have been working out in the morning, but sometimes getting up at 7am and not always showering right afterwards. So we'll see how that works out. heh.