This past weekend, my family and I had the opportunity to attend the annual Day of the Cowboy festival. I had never heard of this festivity prior to this year and I have to admit, I’m a little bummed to just learn about it now, but thankful I did because I think we will plan on going out every year now!

Aaron Friedman from the Gold Canyon Resort had a fantastic feast fit for a cowboy, gunfights, vendors, bounce houses for the kids and fireworks to top off the night! (You can see some of my favorite pictures from that night on my
from the weekend!)

I think one of my kids’ favorite parts of the festival (apart from the bounce houses that they bounced in for hours) was the Mohawk Flooring (the world’s largest flooring manufacturer) booth who allowed my children to purposely make a mess on their SmartStrand stain resistant carpet! (Not only did my kids love making the mess – what kid wouldn’t, but I was thrilled that I didn’t have to clean it!)

Mohawk Flooring was at the festival showing off their SmartStrand carpet (that can also be made into a rug if you have hard wood flooring!)

While I was talking with the wonderful people from Mohawk Flooring and learning about SmartStrand carpeting, the kids were helping make a mess of the flooring!

(The image on the left is the dirty carpet that my kids helped make dirty and the image on the right is an image I borrowed from Mohawk Flooring’s
from when they cleaned that dirty carpet.)

They even allowed the kids to dirty up their own little piece of carpet that they then cleaned with a water bottle!

The kids got blue Powerade with extra blue dye, soy sauce and red wine:

Buddy of course thought it was great that he was given permission to make a mess on the carpet while I stood back and was quite skeptical of this coming clean with just water. (I swear, if I hadn’t seen it for myself, I wouldn’t believe it for myself!)

Just water took out all the mess that Buddy made! I couldn’t believe it!

I was sold at that point, but then the cutest gal from Mohawk Flooring shared with me the story of the rhino (because with a crazy dog in the house, I need to know that this carpet will withstand the dog’s craziness).

For two weeks, they placed SmartStrand flooring in a rhino enclosure and let the rhino live on the carpet. For two weeks! Using hot water, they were able to remove the stains and the carpet looked as though it were just installed!

I further learned that SmartStrand carpet is a soft carpeting (I can attest to soft since I was able to touch it) made in part from actual corn! And when you spill (well, not you, but the kids, right?) you can get the stain out with just water! (Of course, some stains require a little more effort than just water, but still, this carpet is made to eliminate stains!)

Additionally, SmartStrand has permanent stain and soil resistance that will never wear off unlike scotch guarding or using other topically applied treatments that wear off over time.

I am in awe and can’t figure out why every house is not equipped with this magic carpet!? As a mom of three kids who has 2 cats and a dog, I am in dire need of this carpeting. I need a break from the hands and knees scrubbing with chemicals to remove the food stains, crayon, marker, and mud from the dog.

Needless to say, I am thoroughly impressed with Mohawk Flooring and will be entering their
to win a 6 by 9 rug for my mother in law and am working on a budget to replace our living room carpet with Mohawk Flooring because frankly, after seeing it with my own eyes, I am now their biggest fan!