Catchin' Up: Fair & More

I have completely skipped over our first week with Andrew home, so I'm going to backtrack and catch you up.

Last Saturday we went with my fam to the Tulsa State Fair.

Pony rides are a must!

Carousel!  

Speed Racer

They were laughing so hard on this one.  =)

Bumper Cars!

I think everyone enjoyed this one.

Fair food this year, I was focused on 2 things. 

#1- Fried Pickle Spears

#2- BBQ Parfait

I got both and was beyond satisfied!

Cotton Candy!!

Hadley was so excited about doing the jumpy thing this year.  And she was able to do a flip pretty easily this time.

Wrapping up the day with corndogs and a dance party!

Hadley has picked up some Elvis moves, that I've never seen.  Love it!!

Monday night our friends offered to watch the Hads, while Andrew and I had a date night.

Caz's Chowhouse for dinner and Cheesecake Factory for dessert!

Wednesday we got to see Oliver again and he is looking a lot like his big sister.

Park date after school on Thursday.

 Starbucks treat at Barnes and Noble, while daddy checked out a study book for Step 3.

Bonus: We were there for story time!

Then... Christmas Stew for dinner!!!

As you can tell we've been thoroughly enjoying having Andrew home.  He was supposed to be leaving again today for another rotation, but due to the government shutdown and this being an Air Force rotation, his orders are on hold till further notice.

While we will keep enjoying our time with him the lack of paycheck may not be enjoyed.  =/

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Weekend Update {Tulsa State Fair}

FRIDAY

Jolene and Ryan and their little fam came in that night.  We made a very tasty cheese fondue. (You can find the recipe HERE.)

Look at Little Miss.  She's got a smirk going, almost a smile.

Sleep-Over!!!!!

Hadley's room was maxed out.

SATURDAY

My parents and brother came in that morning before we headed to the fair.

Me and the brosef on our way to breakfast.

Tally's of course.

After walking through the stables to see the horses Hadley hitched a ride from daddy.

Then we watched some equestrian riding.  Hadley kept pointing at horses saying, "I want that one."

My date for the day.  =)

*Pony Rides*

Sweetness

Mimi, got her Paige fix for the day.

Hadley has been talking for weeks about the Ferris Wheel, so it was the first of the rides.

Waiting in line for the Tilt-a-Whirl, precious!

This ride was never ending.  I seriously think the guy forgot about them for a while.

Andrew was reunited with his Disney World riding buddy and tried out this ride.

Pap-pa won the kids a toy throwing the darts.

*Carousel*

*Food Break*

Jonathan throughout the day enjoyed fried oreos and fried PB&J.  I tried both and although you could taste yourself dying a little they were pretty good.

Fried pickles were also amongst the food as well as the talked about BBQ Parfait.  

(From Bottom: Baked Beans, mashed potatoes, pulled pork, BBQ sauce layered x3)

The kiddos got to do this cool bungee cord jumpy thing.  Hadley even pulled off a flip, sadly I didn't get a picture. =(

Hadley and Andrew both won prizes at the hammers.  Man, I have a strong little family.

Mimi got Hadley a fair prize, a princess cowboy hat.

Burning the last of our ride tickets.

After we used the last of our tickets we enjoyed the car show.

Hadley was in need of going home and we (me, Andrew & Jonathan) were in need of a good walk.  We decided walking back to the house would be a good idea. Definitely beats fair traffic.

We made it back just in time to miss the rain!!

Till next year!

After the kids went to bed we enjoyed some quiet time with homemade hot coco. Ahh....

SUNDAY

We have been talking for years (literally since we moved here) about redoing our classroom at church.  Well, the day has come.  Today during our normal class time we had a work day and finished the painting, woohoo!  We had lots of hard workers, I love our class!!

This will be a short week for me as I will be heading to Searcy on Wednesday in preparation for my trip to San Diego.  I can't believe it's already here!!

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