Iowa State Fair

Most of us enjoyed a Pork Chop On-A-Stick

Jesse

Autumn

Sweet Potato Fries dipped in Maple Cream

Getting ready to ride the Crazy Mouse

Avery trying to get her seat belt fastened

Tilt-A-Whirl meets Roller Coaster...it was AWESOME!

Big Black the huge bull...3,404 lbs.

Avery & Autumn with the 5th biggest pumpkin

The famous Butter Cow

The Sky Scraper ride Kesha & Jesse rode

When Kesha was home for a visit in August we decided it would be fun to spend a day at the Iowa State Fair. We had a great time despite the fact that it rained off and on most of the day.

Auction Work Days

Sweeping off 30 years of dust

Simon, Levi, Jensen, Reid and Lane

All dusted, time for a scrubbing

1948 Frazer Manhattan

Can you believe it, Air Conditioning!

1951 Frazer

Reid and Lane hard at work

Simon and Levi

A one of a kind cast iron seat....can't wait to see what this sells for!

Another cast iron seat from a collection of 125 seats

Levi with some really big tools we discovered in the shop

My Dad, Dale Widmer, watching all the work getting done

Driving the Massey Ferguson

Jensen took lots of rides sitting on Grandpa's lap & steering

These two had way too much fun to call what we did work!!!

My Mom, Gerri Widmer and Reid loading up the truck

This doesn't look anything like my Maytag!

What a fun couple of days I had this week. Some of the kids and I spent 2 days helping my Mom & Dad get some work done in preparation for their upcoming auction Saturday, September 5. Levi & Lane Schrock joined us while Avery & Autumn stayed at their house. We got a lot done and had a lot of fun too, as you can tell by the pictures. If you would like to see more photos of items being auctioned click here.

David Cook Concert

The marquee outside of the Orpheum Theatre

How fun it was for Randy, Jensen and I to go to Sioux City to see David Cook in concert. Actually I think it was more fun for Jensen & I, but we were glad to have Randy along for the road trip. Jensen & I called in a lot of votes and were thrilled when David Cook won the title of American Idol for Season 7. It was an awesome concert! Now Jensen & I can hardly wait for September 1 to go to the American Idol concert in Minneapolis.

My Beautiful Daughter

These pictures were taken by Jensen's friend Alyssa Yoder. Jensen, Alyssa, Mikaela, Hope and Trudi spent most of the day on this photo shoot that spanned at least 3 if not 4 counties in southeastern Iowa. If Jensen had any dreams of being a model, this day ended that dream. She got her fill of smiling and being in front of the camera. I think all the hard work paid off in some very fun and creative pictures.