{"id":1095,"date":"2014-09-23T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2014-09-23T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:04:51","slug":"my-first-4-h-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2014\/09\/my-first-4-h-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"My First 4-H Fair!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year my sister and I participated in the 4-H for the first year, so the upcoming fair was our first as well.\u00a0 The 4-H fair events started Friday, August 1, 2014, when a dance was held on the fairgrounds.\u00a0 I went to the dance with my two friends, Alex and Seth, and it was actually my first dance.\u00a0 My friends and I only danced to three songs, all line dances, because to my surprise no one else really danced.\u00a0 The next day was fair set-up but neither of my friends were able to attend.\u00a0 I was very busy in the four hours we were there and there was a lot to do. I helped to clean out the judge’s booth for the horse show, I helped to set up the pavilion for the tractors to go under, set-up the tractor pulling pad, and set-up part of the cow area in one of the barns.\u00a0 I also got to talk to my new friend Brianna which made the set-up more fun.\u00a0 It was raining out most of the time so needless to say the weather wasn’t nice but I still had fun.<\/p>\n

The next week on Wednesday and Thursday I had to drop off my two tractors, and my other 4-H projects.\u00a0 On Friday the 4-H fair started.\u00a0 After 10 o’clock I was judged on my two tractors.\u00a0 The way the judging worked was the judge would come and go person by person and talk to you about the work you did on your project and you would show him each step you did.\u00a0 My Ariens Tractor got 3rd place in the display of parts class and my Husqvarna Tractor got 2nd place in the reconditioned engine class.\u00a0 My other 4-H projects were judged the day before.\u00a0 I got first for a wooden bench I made, a candle holder and a cutting board and second for a wooden sign.\u00a0 I also got second for one of my drawings and my glass collection, three seconds and three thirds for photography, and a third for a wooden ornament and jewelry.\u00a0 I didn’t realize how much I entered until we started packing things up for the fair!\u00a0 There also was an obstacle course competition and anyone in the Piston Pushers could compete.\u00a0 I thought I did really well but I didn’t place because they only give ribbons out to the top four spots.\u00a0 It was still a lot of fun though.<\/p>\n

For the rest of the fair I just hung out with my friends Seth and Brianna who were also 4-Hers.\u00a0 With Seth I mostly just talked to him since we don’t see each other a lot anymore and spent a lot of Friday with him so it was nice getting to just hang out with him; I also paired up with him for the senior Olympics though.\u00a0 Then I did the parking booth and watched the tractor pull, which Seth was involved in, with Brianna and then we just hung out for most of Saturday and Sunday, including watching our sisters do the junior Olympics.\u00a0 Also on Saturday my sister Rachel, Brianna, her sister Madison and I played Frisbee tag before the Olympics it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 I was being chased the whole time because Madison was out to get me and then they all teamed up to get me, which they eventually succeeded in doing.\u00a0 Having friends also involved in the fair made it a lot more fun!<\/p>\n

Then the only other event I was involved in for the rest of the fair was when I participated in the 4-H senior olympics on Saturday night.\u00a0 First there was a wheel-barrel race which my team lost because we had the older kids (not to mention our team had a flat tire on our wheel barrel).\u00a0 The person I was pushing was my friend Seth and it was so hard to push him especially because we were in an arena filled with shavings!\u00a0 The next competition was a watermelon toss.\u00a0 The teams had to pass a watermelon greased in olive oil under their legs to the person behind them and the watermelon had to make it all the way down the line for a team to win; my team won by a hair.\u00a0 The next contest was an egg contest.\u00a0 You couldn’t touch the egg with your hands so it was extremely difficult.\u00a0 At first my team tried holding with our neck and passing it to next person who would try and grab it with their neck but that didn’t work so we put it in a hat and had to bite down on the hat and pass it to the next person.\u00a0 It was kind of nasty but it worked except that we dropped the egg when we almost won and the other team stole our idea and they won.\u00a0 The last contests of the night were two tug of wars.\u00a0 In the first one, anyone who wanted to could join in.\u00a0 That was fun but my team once again lost.\u00a0 The second tug of war was boys vs. girls.\u00a0 The girls had the distinct advantage because there was basically two times as many girls as boys and we were winning until they started pulling us so that some of the boys started getting knocked down in the front and we would have lost if it wasn’t for our anchor, which was the older and bigger kids, and Seth and I were with them.\u00a0 We all counted to three and our team all pulled at once and that big tug caused a lot of the girls to fall so we won shortly after.\u00a0 After that my family and I went home but it had been a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Sunday was a slow day and it went by really quickly.\u00a0 We were sad for it to be over because it was so much fun; can’t wait for next year’s fair, and hopefully it is just as fun.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>

Me With The Judge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Receiving<\/a>

Receiving My Ribbons<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My Friend Seth Competing In The Obstacle Course<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Me<\/a>

Me Competing In The Obstacle Course<\/p><\/div>\n

\"On<\/a>

On My Tractor<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rachel<\/a>

Rachel, Her Friend Madison And My Mom At The Lemonade Booth<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My Friend Brianna Judging The Alpaca Borrowing Class<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seth<\/a>

Seth Competing In The Tractor Pull<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seth<\/a>

Seth On His Tractor Next To Our Club Leader Mr. Hoffman<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seth<\/a>

Seth In the 2nd Round Of The Tractor Pull<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My Wooden Bench<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My “Peace” Sign, Cutting Board, And Wooden Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My Sister Rachel And My Friend Brianna<\/p><\/div>\n

\"IMG_3837\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>

Getting Chased<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rachel,<\/a>

Rachel, Madison, Brianna and Me Playing Frisbee Tag<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Me<\/a>

Me Pushing My Friend Seth In The Senior Olympics Wheel Barrel Race<\/p><\/div>\n

\"IMG_4018\"<\/a>\"IMG_4040\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tug<\/a>

Tug Of War!<\/p><\/div>\n

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