Alaska State Fair

Kyla on her pony ride!

So Big!

Kyla's first time having her face painted!

Pretty Unicorn

Checking it out...

So pretty

Kyla in the cute pink car before it broke down :(

Kyla on the Dumbo ride

Big Slide with Mommy

Big slide with Grandma!

WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Kyla riding in the helicopter

So much fun!

Kyla, Grandma and Daddy at the fair

Kyla and Daddy feeling the starfish in the Sea Life Center exhibit

Kyla in front of the sweet peas

Yummy snowcone

Kyla taking Dora for a walk

902 pound pumpkin


Giant Cabbage

Kyla taking a nap in the stroller

Kyla looking at the bunnies

Kyla looking at the baby chicks

Kyla petting baby chicks

Kyla having fun at the fair

Kyla in the pink car again

Second ride on Dumbo

Out for another helicopter ride

Kyla's second ride on the helicopter, SO MUCH FUN!!!

So Fun!

Kyla loved feeding the goats in the petting zoo

Kyla with the lambs

Cotton Candy!!!


Kyla had an absolute blast at the Alaska State fair! It was a beautiful, sunny and warm day, perfect fair weather! We were expecting rain so we dressed in warm clothes and brought rain clothes and instead ended up taking off layers and wishing we had sunglasses with us. This was the third year in a row that Kyla has been to the Alaska State Fair, but the first time that she has been able to go on the rides and really enjoy everything that is going on there. We ended up spending a full 8 hour day at the fair and it was so fun!

We first went and found the ponies and Kyla got to go on a pony ride, she had been talking about going on a pony ride for nearly a week! She had a great time on the pony rides and was even able to ride them without us being by her side since they had a harness belt on the saddle.

After her pony ride, we walked around to all of the booths and got Kyla's face painted. Kyla choose to have a unicorn painted on her face. She did really well sitting still as the lady painted her cheek. She started to cry a little but was fine once I got down by her and the lady gave her a mirror to watch her paint in. The unicorn turned out very cute and it lasted the entire day.

Next we headed to the rides!!! We did two shifts of rides, first before a nap and again after. She loved the rides! We took her on four different rides, all twice. She seemed so grown up going on the rides all by herself. She went on a flying dumbo ride, a helicopter ride, a car ride and a really big and fast slide. She loved each ride and did not want to get off them when they were over. The rides were pretty limited that she could go on, we pretended she was 36 inches tall so she could go on the ones she went on, Many of the rides they even had to be 42 inches tall to ride. Kyla was such a happy girl going on rides.

While Kyla took a nap in her stroller, Jon, my mom and I went and looked at all the stuff that Kyla would not have been too interested in like the arts and crafts, photography and giant vegetables.

After Kyla's nap we went and looked at all the farm animals. Kyla got to pet a baby bunny and baby chicks and loved it, they were so cute! She also went into the petting zoo and got to pet and feed goats, sheep, cows and pigs. We bought plenty of food to give them and Kyla did not want to leave. We also went into the Alaska Sealife Centers exhibit where she was able to touch starfish.

It was such a great day and it was so fun for her to get to do so many neat things in one day. And of course it would not be the fair without plenty of junk food! Kyla got to have a corndog, freshly made potato chips with cheese sauce, part of a snowcone, a little cotton candy and a m & m cookie! Jon also bought her a huge sucker to take home to have another day. Kyla saw a girl carrying a blow up Dora doll as we entered the fair, so we went and bought her one and she was so funny, she held the stick it came on and had Dora walking next to her.

It was so fun to see Kyla have such a great time at the fair and we look forward to another great fair day next year!