Fairly good week!

thank god for deep fried battered bacon on a stick with chocolate!

The weekend before the weekend before Halloween seems to be just as busy as the weekend before Halloween.  And that is good because there are a lot of fun things to do.  Although, my family seems to be on "cram as much crap into your week" spree, which again, is good, but can be a little difficult.

kids petting a cow.  no really, i took a picture of it.

We made our yearly trip to the state fair where we walked through the livestock barns and looked for the prize blue ribbon bird.  We didn't find her, but we did find, some calves that had been born earlier that day.  We made sure to eat lots of junk food.  We don't really get much outside our box as far as food goes, but we still manage to feel EXTREMELY thirsty from all of the salt and grease.

baby calves

There were lots of cool rides that I am thankful that Peanut is too small to ride.  She wanted to ride on the "fun" ones.  Fun = spinning upside down.  It also seems that fun also means free fall, which I am NOT a fan of.  I dread the day that she is big enough for these rides, but mostly, I dread the day she realizes we have been fibbing about how old you have to be to ride them, which I plan to do until I no longer can.

two handsome men

yep, that is what we do for the camera.

"Let's ride the monster truck.  It is a vehicle"

We also had the school's carnival the next night. It was super fun.  Again, the kids had junk food.  I honestly think Peanut ate nachos for two nights in a row.  And not proper nachos, but the ones with the cheese made from petrol.  yuck!!  The school carnival was fun.  The kids are at a great age where they can just run around with minimal involvement from us.  BabyP has a tendency to stay pretty close, but Peanut loves to run with her friends.

Something that has occurred to me more and more as she gets older is that I don't really have a lot of knowledge of what goes on in her life.  I am pretty involved, but random kids come up to her and hug her.  It is so strange because I have NO IDEA where she knows these kids from.  It is a strange thing to have this little baby whose poops you count to having this little girl who has a completely different world from yours.  I thought I would have at least 10 years before I felt like this.

She was so proud of her mom Tattoo.

Lastly, we had the annual pumpkin carving party.  There are two parties that I really look forward to each year, and they both occur right around Halloween.  I never really figured myself to be a Halloween person, but it looks like I may officially be turning that way!

ohhh scary!