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A Day At {Bloomsbury Farm}

Skyler had a random Tuesday off of school....which NEVER EVER in the existence of Dental School happens. We were thrilled and decided we needed to do something fun! So we headed to this little farm {Bloomsbury Farm}. It was a perfect fall day, and there were only a couple of other people at the farm which made it even more perfect!

A day full of wandering through a corn maze, swinging on tires/horses, playing in a corn box, watching pig races, jumping on a giant balloon, feeding goats, racing petal go-carts, and tractor rides! Woah...I think that's it :)

It was a party for sure!

And I'm pretty sure Preston asked me multiple times if it was Saturday. Because that's usually the only explanation for Dad not being at school.

And just for fun here are some of the pigs names that we watched race.

Squealy Nelson, Hamma Montana and Paris Squealton. There were lots more that I don't remember. But we thought they were pretty clever.

Our {First} Family Campout

Skyler loves to camp and has been wanting to take the boys (and me) for a long time. The weather or our schedule never seemed to workout.

But we FINALLY went camping.

We drove out to some public land not to far from our house and found a pretty nice spot in the trees. Right across from a farmers field and right next to the river :)

The temperature was perfect, although it did sprinkle on us during the night and into the morning. Nothing we couldn't handle.

Skyler woke up bright and early and ventured out into the rain to cook us yummy omelets in a bag.

I know Skyler is hoping this is the first of many many more camping trips. He just wishes they were in the mountains and not in a farmers field :)

Iowa Football {For the family}

WE LOVE IOWA!

Really though...I love this place.

Have I said that enough?

You know what else we like? Iowa football. If you remember, I posted about going to a football game last year here. We thought that would be the only game we would get to go to while living here. Tickets aren't cheap. End of story.

Well, last Saturday Skyler woke up and checked his school email. The was a faculty member who sent out and email out at 6am saying they had a few FREE tickets to the game that day. She said she would be at the school until 10am come get them if you want them. WHAT??? Crazy right? It was 9:30 though. It takes at least 25min to get to the school, but we figured we would give it a shot. We bolted to the school thinking we either wouldn't make it in time, or she wouldn't have any tickets left. A few minutes later Skyler came back to the car with 4 ticket in his hand. AHHH we were so excited!

Another Iowa football game and this time with our boys!

Wesley LOVED IT! He was up cheering and shouting pretty much the whole time. Our seats ended up being right below the lady that gave us the tickets. I hope it was fun for her to see how much fun the boys were having. We took her a thank you card a few days later to make sure she knew how grateful we were.

The game was pretty slow. If I recall we were tied at half time, then down until the last quarter. With 7 minutes left in the game hundreds of people just got up and left. Iowa was losing and nothing seemed to be happening. All the sudden Iowa tied it up with 3 minutes left. The crowd started going crazy, which made Prest and Wes start getting excited too. Literally less than 1 minute left in the game we pulled ahead and WON IT! Great way to end the game.

Our {creepy} little Herky.

Check out the tailgaters. This is no joke. Every large parking lot in like a 5mile radius from the stadium is full of tailgaters...in huge RV's. They get there at like 8am and seriously party all day. Before the game, then they go to the game, then they go back and hang out after the game. This town has some strong school spirit. It's probably like that in other towns, but we have heard Iowa is pretty crazy when it comes to their football team....which we agree. It's slightly awesome to actually experience it.

We had such a fun time at the game and are very grateful for all of the incredibly nice people there are in this world. We were able to do something with our family we would have never been able to afford right now.

A {Quick} August Recap

We are just going to do one giant recap of the month of August in pictures.

Because I can't believe September is already half over.

We started off the month in Kansas City. Ryan went through the temple, so we all met in KC to go through with him (we all made it but Shane and Sadie). And for another related update....Ryan left more his mission 2 weeks ago. So crazy! So for any of you going to conference in Salt Lake this October, be on the lookout for him!!

We have this cute little park downtown that had these little old rides. It's such a cute place. So we finally took the boys for the first time and let them ride the rides.

Discovered bubble snakes. And how super cool they are.

Turned our water table in a sand box. Score! Seriously, how many ways can we use this table?...we love it!

Headed to the Iowa State Fair for our first time. I took like 5 pictures....boo. But it was fun! Lots of animals, food and fun! Although we aren't bigger eaters around here, so we didn't do much eating. And I'm probably the only person at the fair that packed a lunch for my family...hahaha. But we did get a strawberry funnel cake. It was yummy!