Last Random Summer Post

We took Sienna to a Frisbee Dog Challenge a little while ago.  We may have been the only ones there without a dog, but Sienna absolutely LOVED seeing all the dogs.

Waiting for the competition to start:

Meeting a new friend

We (by we I mostly mean Nick) have being doing various projects around the house.  Nick and Sienna went to Home Depot together and picked up all the materials to make a board that Sienna can now hang all her art work from.  She even got to pick out the paint color and help paint it.  In case you were wondering she calls this color purplely, purple, purple purp.

Daddy used the rest of the paint to paint her dresser drawers which turned into a bit of a project.  We are so glad and thankful that we have such a handy guy around here. 

Spirit of Boise Night Glow

 We went to the Spirit of Boise Balloon Festival again this year!  It is a really cool, free family friendly event and this year was just as good as last year.  We showed up early to get a good viewing spot amongst the big crowd and while we waited we played games, mostly the hand slapping game:

 Daddy even got us ice cream!

We hung out by the Coca Cola Balloon and they played the song Happy while all the little ones danced along.

Waiting for it to get dark so we could watch the Balloons glow

 Some of our favorite pictures of the hot air balloons!

Sienna was pretty tired by the time it was over this year so we decided that next year we will probably go to one of the early morning lift offs instead of the glow and get some breakfast together afterward.  I'm excited to experience this fun event in a new way next year!

Western Idaho Fair

We tried out the Western Idaho Fair this year.  It was definitely no California State Fair, but it was the perfect size for our family.  After three hours we had seen everything we wanted, Sienna was spent and my pregnant self was more than happy to be done.  I loved that there was tons of fun things for kids through out the fair including a fun puzzle that when you finished not only did you get a stamp,but also a smaller puzzle to take home.

Sienna dug through dirt in the agricultural center and found all sorts of treasure (marbles)!

Daddy and Sienna enjoying the horses...

...and the very mischievous goats! 

Future Farmer?

I kind of felt like a giant potato at this point with my big belly. :)

 Nick was so excited when he saw that not only did they have a working iron lung machine, but that he could actually try it out. (Seriously, only a respiratory therapist...)   

While Daddy was in the iron lung machine, Sienna and I got our faces painted, played a tossing game and enjoyed free otter pops.

 

 

We also ate corn dogs and funnel cake, drank the best lemonade, saw lots of other animals, visited the vendor booths and rode the Ferris Wheel.  We will definitely have to go again next year.

Our New Home!

On August 8th we finally signed paperwork and closed on our brand new home!  We were even lucky enough to get the keys that same day, which is fairly uncommon despite what all of those shows on TV show you.  We are loving our new house even with the few hiccups we have experience along the way.  We are so grateful for our friend and realtor, Janie, who helped us and stood up for us through out the whole process.

 

  

  

  

 

  We are slowly getting things into place and are excited to eventually bring Shelby home and welcome some much anticipated visitors in November!

A Fun Visit!

All the way back at the beginning of August our friends came up from California to come and visit us!  We absolutely adore the Volp family and we were so happy that they were able to make the trip to see us, especially Sienna.  Sienna loves their son so much she calls him her cousin.  Here are some of our adventures in no particular order:

  We visited the temple...

We threw rocks in the river...

 We played at the Settler's Park (aka the Pirate park)...

Saw the races at the Meridian Speedway...

and ate giant shaved ices...twice!

We also visited the Boise Depot, went on a candy hunt, ate delicious burgers and were able to show off our new house.  

I'm a little sad that we only have one picture with the grown ups, but so happy that we were able to spend a few days with some of our favorite people.  We are already looking forward to when we can see each other again.