September

We kicked September off with the Eastern Idaho State Fair.

We don't go every year, but Taylor decided it was a year for us to go.

While looking at some of the small animals, someone was kind enough to give us their partially used cup of feed. Hudson had so much fun trying to feed the goats.

He thought it was so funny to have the goats lick his hands as they were getting the food.

Ella preferred to admire them from afar.

They had the cutest little play area for little kids filled with different farm themed toys.

Hudson was a big fan of the corn and tractors.

Ella more just stood there and looked around haha.

We decided to let Hudson go on some rides so we could get an idea of what he would be like at Disneyland.

I think Ella only got to ride one or two rides because she didn't meet the height requirement for most.

She was getting pretty bored and tired of being in the stroller by the time Hudson had used up all of the tickets we had bought.

After the rides we walked around a bit more, and wandered over to the animals.

We were amazed when we looked in the stroller to find Ella asleep.

She never ever slept anywhere other than her crib.

It was a miracle even for her to fall asleep in the car.

After walking around a little more so she would get a decent nap in, we called it quits and headed home to get out of the hot sun.

Both of the kids decided to help Taylor while he was checking the van for something to do with the hitch we would be putting on it before our trip to Disneyland.

And by we I of course mean Taylor would be putting on..

Apparently, Ella's way of helping was a quick snuggle.

We needed to run to the store one night, and when I went to unload Ella from her car seat she had spit up a little bit.

Not a ton, but it stunk so bad like throw up which was super random considering she was well passed her spit up days, and normal spit up doesn't stink like throw up.

We cleaned her up the best we could, left her shirt on top of the van while we went in the store (we didn't want it to stink up the van while we were inside), and went in to buy our shirtless baby a new shirt so we could get our errands done.

I'm convinced it was all a part of a gross plan of hers to get us to buy her a new shirt.

All summer long we had been meaning to take the kids to Rigby lake.

Just about all of summer had passed us by when we finally made it happen.

Hudson LOVED the sand and could have spent hours and hours playing in it.

Ella was unsure of the sand at first, but she did like hanging out in the sport umbrella with me on a blanket.

She eventually ventured out and played a bit too.

Hudson could have spent hours and hours there playing in the sand.

After a while though Taylor and I were hungry so we started to clean up and head home.

Hudson was so sad to have to leave.

It made me contemplate getting a sandbox in the backyard.

I only contemplated it for 5 seconds because the answer is still no.

Rigby lake is definitely on our list of must do more often for next summer.

I have no idea why the picture of Ella was taken, but we went out for breakfast at Abracadabras one morning.

If you live anywhere near Idaho Falls you and haven't eaten there yet, you need to!

Afterwards, we went to the zoo.

Taylor didn't get to go with us too often, but the kids definitely loved it when he did.

If only this tractor kept a log of the amount of hours it's been ran..

Every day alllll summer long you could find Hudson cruising around the yard on it.

Taylor put Ella on it one day with Hudson, and she loved it just as much as Hudson did.

I took the kids to ijump one day, and shortly after we got their I checked find friends and noticed that Aunt Bekah was on her way to Idaho Falls and was only a couple of minutes away.

We talked her into jumping with us, and Hudson was obviously thrilled :)

We squeezed in some refinishing projects before the weather started to get cold.

The pallet flag ends up needing to be redone every year because the sprinklers hit it.

We finished our kitchen table last year, but we were never in love with how the finish of the top turned out because of the gel stain.

We figured we might as well make it right, so we sanded/stripped the top of the table and the chairs off and did it again with normal wood stain.

Taylor's parents also gave us a bench that they were done using, so we refinished that to match out table. You can kind of see the before of the bench in the picture with Taylor above.