You'd Butter believe it.

Those of you who have been my friend for a while know of this secret joy in my life that only happens ever September. And anyone else who has been to the Utah State Fair and wandered over to the building in the far southeast corner and seen the Butter Cow and wondered who in the world sculpted that-- the answer is my mom. I'm so proud of her. She's been doing this for ten years and each year it gets better and better. This year her partner was our friend Matt McNaughtan (Leslie's husband) and he brings so much creativity and fun to the project (for more of his art you can look at his website: http://www.farmboymatt.com/). They've usually done just a life-sized sculpture of a normal looking cow just out of butter. This year they really took it to a new level putting all the farm animals up on hind legs and kick dancing. I love it.

We always go to the fair on the first Monday because they have an all you can eat Ice Cream tent. Yum. It's so great. They even get Aggie Ice Cream and the BYU Creamery and other great groups there (the year they get Cold Stone is the year I've died and gone to heaven).

A funny note-- around the butter cow are a bunch of other crafty things people have submitted to the fair on display. Do you notice anything strange? Like how EVERY entry has a blue "first place" ribbon? How many first places we givin out this year, people? A second funny (but cuter) note, next door is the fine arts building with everyone's sculptures and paintings on display. There was a fun sculpture of two little boys and this little girl about their height walked up and was talking to the two of them as if they were real. It was so cute. She stayed there forever and had a whole fun conversation with her new friends. I couldn't help but take her picture so I could exploit her adorableness on my blog.