Sunday, September 20, 2009

A sure sign of fall....

As I was shaving my legs in the kitchen sink yesterday (yup - you read that right... let's just say that there's been delays in replacing my sewer line and anything but the shortest of showers with the drain barely open are O-U-T... wouldn't necessarily recommend the kitchen sink shaving method...too many nicks and getting down off the counter when you've only partially rinsed off the soap is a little tricky!) I was thinking that it really is fall - but how do you know when fall really arrives? For me there's a couple of things - first the State Fair. My friend Lisa and I went this week where I experienced my first funnel cake (I'm a fan in case you were wondering!). A few pictures from the fair:

Good to know that manure isn't garbage...

my favorite shirt there said: "lots of ANDS, lots of IFS and whole lot of BUTTS" - so a few here to share!
The younger generation of farmers were showing their pigs while we were there - I totally want a pig like this one so I can name it Neopolitan (now there's a good reason to have a pig, huh?)
It was a real hoot to watch these kids trying to show their pigs - or in true "Salsa-fashion" - perhaps the pigs were showing the kids?!
Another sure sign of fall - the first home BYU football game - unfortunately this was the highlight of Saturday's game - the band before the kick-off, that is unless you happen to be a Florida State fan... one can only hope that wasn't a sign of things to come!

I also look forward the leaves changing (hasn't started yet!)... I'm sure there's other sure signs of fall, but I haven't encountered them yet this year!!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Family, Soccer, Birthdays, Etc...

OK... big weekend - Deb and Sara both flew in and Kirk and Luci and the boys also came up. Kirk left us Saturday morning to go to the BYU-Oklahoma football game (way to go Cougs!!), while us girls and J-man went to the World Cup qualifying game at Rio Tinto Stadium - the US men's soccer team vs. El Salvador - it was AWESOME!!!
J-man with aunt Deb - he now has a new nickname - LoveBug (I'm sure he'll love that one later!)
LoveBug with aunties Deb and Sara
So close to the action... so AWESOME (in case you couldn't guess, I had a great time...)
Luci, grumpy LoveBug, me, Sara and Deb
Kind of a blurry picture of Z-boy, who was saying "Cheese" for this picture. Z-boy also has a new nickname - 40%, a reference to the 40% of 18 month olds who are bigger than him according to his doctor at his 18 month checkup... that's pretty hard to believe...

On Sunday we had all of our Robinson aunts and cousins Carolyn, April and April's kids over.
who knew Mr. Potato Head was so cool?
Kirk and Deb with Carol and Doris
The four Aunties - Doris, Alice, Carol and Marge
And the four siblings... Kirk was a good sport to put up with all the estrogen!
LoveBug showing us how to get down!
And Happy Birthday Kirk... count all 32 candles on that cake!! Highly recommend Maggie Moo's ice cream cakes - this one was de-lish-us!
Kirk, Sara and Deb checking out Sara's matches... signed up yet Deb?!! Yeah, me neither...

Monday we went to SugarHouse park for a picnic and playground time - can I just say that I LOVE the fall - we had just absolutely gorgeous weather this weekend, but the nights are cool enough to sleep... LOVE it LOVE it LOVE it...
Brotherly love??
LoveBug decided that we should go miniature golfing - so we went to the place we had gone over Easter weekend, and well... that obviously didn't work out so well for us!!
Finally made it to a very busy course and hey!! LoveBug - the ball is going the wrong way!!

The only draw back to the weekend?? the flooded basement... love the big old trees that line the streets of my neighborhood, but not looking forward to paying for a new sewer line... eek. Thanks for coming everyone - it was a FANTASTIC weekend!