The twelve days leading up to Labor Day–it’s finally State Fair time. Hurrah!

One of the cool competitions is to see which dairy-promoting maiden gets crowned Princess Kay of the Milky Way. She and all her court get their likenesses sculpted in real butter! I’m not kidding…check it out:

And you can’t have a state fair, at least not in an agricultural state, without the livestock. Isn’t this new born lamb cute?

And see Link talk to the animals (he is a Nebraskan, after all), like a modern-day Dr. Dolittle:

My sister and Link were such good sports, and I had to go and make them look like turkeys!