Busy Busy

I think it is about time for an update… we have been super busy lately so get ready for a super LONG post! A couple of weeks ago one of my good friends Alex got married in Idaho Falls so Conner and I went down for the wedding… and also for my little sister’s birthday! I went to my friends “bachelorette party” at Texas Rhodehouse and it was way fun for us to have a girls night out without the kids.

Here are Whit and I with the happy bride. :)
We helped Teresa celebrate her B-day by eating some of her cake.

She was chosen for homecoming royalty so on her B-day she got to ride in a corvette during the school’s homecoming parade.

We took Conner and my niece Kynzee to watch and they loved picking up (and immediately eating) all of the candy that was thrown at them.

Teresa also got to ride out onto the football field during halftime so we went to watch the high school game and it was lots of fun!

She also went to her Homecoming dance while we were there and she looked smokin hot!

We carved pumpkins with Conner and Kynz but Conner wasn’t too sure about touching the mushy stuff inside…

AND THEN two days after we got back from I.F. we flew down to Texas to visit some of our good friends Mandy and Andrew. Here we are on our LONG plane ride there..

Mandy was one of my first college roommates and she actually introduced Nathan and I so we have her to thank! Nathan and Andrew were mission buddies and we both started dating at the same time. We had sooo much fun there! We ate out… A LOT. There are so many good restaurants there and everywhere we ate was new to us. Mandy and I did a lot of shopping too. I actually had to buy a duffle bag to bring home all of the extra stuff that I bought! They have a little boy a few months older than Conner so it was fun for them play and entertain each other One day we went to the Texas State Fair. We took a train ride there…

I couldn’t believe how many random things that you could buy fried! They had fried butter, lemonade, peaches and cream, snickers, Oreos, margaritas, and tons more! Of course we had to try at least one fried thing so I got the fried peaches and cream and Nathan tired the fried snickers. Here is a super attractive picture of him eating it… :)

Conner and Austin fell asleep about ten minutes after we got there… I don’t know how because it was soo hot and super loud!

But when they woke up they loved the petting zoo. It was really neat because they had baby pigs and even a giraffe!

Some other things that we did…

We went to a really cool park that had a bunch of water features.

Conner kept trying to dive in.

We went to the stockyards and walked around. We saw a few horses that Conner mooed at. (Sometimes I think that he is really smart and sometimes I wonder...) :) And we rode a few of the quarter rides.

Kissin a cow...

We took the kids to a spray park. Conner was in heaven because he loves anything to do with water.

Conner getting sprayed in the face! :)

We went to a mall that had a carousel inside… we let the boys ride with the kids. I’m not a big fan of going around in circles.

We took the kids to a place that had lots of big bouncy toys. (I even got to play on them with him... I secretly really enjoyed the slide.) :)

AND we celebrated our 5 year anniversary while we were there so we spent a night in a hotel and went swimming the next morning!

We had a blast in Texas… thanks Mandy and Andrew! We love you guys!