A Fair Weekend

We had a busy and fun weekend. Friday night was Carter's school fair and we had a really fun time. We had dinner and then cotton candy:
{I want to blow this pic up and frame it my house somewhere!}

Played games:

Played on the playground:

The kids also participated in some relays and bounced in the bouncer a few times. Carter spent a good portion of the night running around with his friends. It was super fun and we love being part of the school community this year.

On Saturday after our Primary Program practice and Carter's soccer game we headed to the NM State Fair for a few hours. The kids had a wonderful time. We rode a few rides:




Saw the baby animals:

Played at Old McDonald's Farm:{After redoing her hair about 10 times, I finally just let her pull it out. Sorry about the mohawk, oh, and the icecream covered baby. We fit right in at the fair LOL}



This kids area was so much fun. There were also tractor rides, cow roping, produce gathering, a corn maze and a few other fun things. We spent A LOT of our time here. We also ate lots of yummy fair food including about 5 lbs. of delicious curly fries (no joke) and a gooey, melty, delicious deep fried Snickers (among other things). It was a fun, exhausting and very dirty day at the fair.

We have LOTS of other fun fall activities planned so stay tuned. My friend Melissa inspired me to post twice a week so that is my new goal (plus catching up on all my friends' neglected blogs!)

Dixon Apple Farm

Earlier this week I heard about an apple farm between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and we decided to go bright and early on Saturday. It is only open to the public for four weeks a year and the place was swamped with buyers. The farm grows a special variety of apple called the champagne and it is one of the yummiest apple's I've ever eaten! We bought about 25 lbs. of apples so I've got some serious cooking/baking to do! Here are a few pictures from our morning:

A sampling of the apples:

This picture of the youngest yahoo seriously cracks me up. She's at SUCH a fun age right now and has become such a little picture hog:
Climbing and climbing the apple trees:

Enjoyed way too many of the most delicious homemade apple fritters ever:

She gnawed and gnawed on this apple the entire morning at the farm and most of the way home too:

Heading home {and looking straight into the sun...ah well}:It was such a fun morning and one of my favorite FALL traditions! I made the most to die for apple cobbler tonight with some of our apples and will post the recipe in the next few days!

Hello beautiful....

where have you been all my life?!?

And thank you Zappos for the *nearly* instant gratification.

{Be back soon with a more meaningful update... or not}

The Weekend

It was a grand weekend all around. A few months ago a few of Allen's college roommates decided to go the BYU v. Oklahoma football game in Dallas. Al decided to go with them and also met up with his brother Steve. Needless to say, they had a fabulous time together. Was that a game or what?! We were watching from home and could not believe that the Cougs pulled it off!! Here are a few pics from his weekend:

Al said the Oklahoma fans were really cool and a lot of them came up after the game to take pictures with them and their signs. One of Al's roommate's even made it into one of the OK newspapers. Other than the game there was apparently a lot of eating out, attending the Friday night coach Mendenhall football fireside, career discussions and NOT talking about their wives/families (I asked Al how the wives/families were and his reply was, "I have no idea, we didn't really talk about you guys." Nice.)

My weekend was unexpectedly fabulous as well. On Friday afternoon at about 3:00 there was a knock at my front door. I assumed it would be one of the neighbors wanting to play with Makenna. Imagine my delighted surprise to see my mom and dad standing there instead!!! I had no idea they were even coming! I was completely blown away and it took me awhile to even process the fact that they were here! We had a great time together and mostly just hung out and played. We ate out a couple times, went to the movies, had my uncle over for dinner, etc. It was so fun and relaxing!

At Chick-fil-A yesterday where we got a free sandwich for wearing paraphernalia from our favorite sports team. The place was packed and there were quite a few Cougar fans there. Amazing how a BYU shirt can immediately bond people together (outside of Utah, I suppose).




Anyway, it was a great weekend! A big thanks to my parents for coming and making it so fun and memorable for me too!