nc state fair 2012.

Yeah, I'm taking you back a couple of months here.

This was in October. The 2012 NC State Fair.

Me and Rebecca took the boys one Thursday morning. We were both off of work and thought it wouldn't be too crowded during the week. The boys had a great time.

Deuce loved watching the trains.

After visiting all of the livestock, we ran into a talking school bus.

The bus was super cool and it talked to the boys.

They were amazed.

Next as we were walking through all of the food, I heard some motown music playing in the distance. I knew Deuce would love it so we ventured in that direction. Once they started playing Ain't Too Proud to Beg Deuce was begging me to get out of his stroller. So I let him and he didn't think twice about walking up the aisle to the front of the stage.

You can see that he put on quite the show with his dance moves.

After a few minutes, Chase went right on up there with him.

We let them dance away until they started kicking the mums up there by the stage.

Yeah, then it was time to go.

We stopped to grab some food.

Then we headed to the Toddler Zone to let them check out some rides.

They loved the train that probably moved at about .02 mph. Seriously it was slower than a turtle but they loved it.

To say they were worn out is an understatement. They both fell asleep pretty much before we got out of the parking lot.

NC State Fair 2011.

We took Deuce to his first ever NC State Fair on the first Saturday that it was open. We had gone to the Carolina game earlier in the day and had decided that since we were already in Chapel Hill, we might as well head a little further down the road to Raleigh to the annual fair. My sister's house is about 2 miles away from the fairgrounds so we scooped her up and headed to dinner before venturing to the fair. I only brought in my phone so the pics are pretty crappy.

Deuce was slightly overwhelmed with all of the bright lights, enormous crowd and high flying rides. He was so good though. He didn't motion to get out of his stroller one time and he didn't whine or cry about wanting anything. He was just laid back and enjoying the ride.

Last year we took him to the Central Carolina Fair in Greensboro but it is much smaller and there are no really big rides. Plus he was only about 4 or 5 months old then so I'm sure his sight wasn't nearly as developed. The lines at the State Fair were so long (like at least a 45 minute wait) so TJ selected the rides he wanted to go on based on the length of the line. Deuce just sat by the side and waved and watched.

While TJ was running through a couple of fun houses I took Deuce over to see the mini horses. He loved them, just like at Nana's.

Right before we left we found a spot to watch the nightly fireworks show. The fair puts on a great fireworks display every night that lights up the sky. We loved it. My sister doesn't love it booming right over her house every night, scaring the poo out of her dog though.

He made sure TJ didn't miss a thing.

After we hiked 15 miles back to the car we had a long drive home. And after a day of football, family & fair...we had two tired boys.