George goes to Indianapolis

Here in Vincennes, we have a wonderful monument called George Rogers Clark Memorial...

Its beautiful to see in person. It sits next to the Wabash River....

Our local paper has been issuing this little wooden cut out of the memorial...AKA George. Encouraging people to take him on their travels...

So we decided to take George to the state fair....

Pictured left to right:

Steven Decker, Brenda Blocher, Bobbi Decker, Chad Phegley, Ashley Blocher(holding George) , Jerry Blocher, Chloe Decker, Darlene Decker, Rex Decker and "lil rammie"..

The Combine

Daddy and Chloe

Daddy looks for his John Deere key to see if it will unlock the door.. oddly enough it did...

Chloe and her daddy play on the combine that daddy can only wish to own....

I dont know if its close enough to see the price tag...but the combine alone is $389,000 and the corn head that is attached at the front is $81,549....$81,549 just to pick corn....

Who ever said farming was cheap? Can you believe that for $500,000 you could harvest your corn in this beautiful combine...As Rex and I was discussing, that doesn't included the Grain head which is used to harvest wheat and soybeans.
Of course I would love to have it...look it has a seat for me and chloe....haha (daddy can ride in the tractors...)

Little Farmer Chloe

We stopped of at the little farmers play yard..

Chloe is a little farmer in the making.....

Chloe feeds the cows

Then the pigs

Then cousin Ashley helps Chloe harvest some apples

The Chloe and Mommy milk a cow

Then Chloe goes for a ride on the tractor....of course we had to pick out the green one...I couldnt get her to get on the pretty pink one...haha

Chloe's ride

Chloe rode around the fair in style....her pretty red wagon....her grandma decker made her a nice little john deere pillow for it...which came in handy when it was nap time...

Chloe standing proud and pretty with her wagon..

Indiana State Fair

Sunday, August 16th, the Decker's and Blocher's loaded up and headed north to Indianapolis, IN...

Well I should say Chloe and I loaded up with Mamaw and Papa Blocher and Cousin Ashley, while daddy and Chad(aka Pedro) loaded up all the tack and our sheep....Sunday we spent the mid-morning traveling, Chloe traveled very well. Chloe and cuz Ashie(as chloe says) and Mamaw spent most of the trip watching DVDs, while I drove part of the way and Papa took over before arriving close to Indy...Im such a nervous driver now that Chloe is here...It used to never bother me to drive in the bigger cities...But I guess being a mommy changes a lot of things.....

When we arrived to Indy we mainly spent the day hanging around the hotel...In years before Chloe, Rex and I would just stay in the sheep barn...while mom and dad stayed in the hotel....

Monday we arrived early to the fair grounds....we spent most of the day in Pioneer Village(which is where you can see how things were done in the earlier years) the DNR building Chloe loved to see all the different kinds of fish found in the state... Tuesday we spent the morning preparing for the Oxford Open Show... Our poor lil ram didnt want to come clean we washed, washed, and washed him again.... and he was still very yellow....after it was all said and done we showed and then showed again, and ended up with second place in open show and second in Indiana born class....two second place ribbons was great!!! After the show and everything settled we wondered back out on to the grounds and showed Chloe all the animals... we had fun but its always nice to return home....

here is our wonderful yearling ram aka lil rammie