Labor Day weekend

This weekend Brennan and Austin came into town to visit us. Austin's birthday is this upcoming week and he decided he wanted to come spend time with us for his birthday. They came in late Friday night and we sat around and talked for a bit before we went to bed.

Saturday we made plans to go the the Eastern Idaho State Fair Rodeo. It wasn't until later in the evening so we decided to go see Brennan's grandparents that live here in Rexburg. Her grandma is so fun to talk to. We sat and chatted with her and listened to her plan the piano for us for a good hour or two. She has three pianos in one of the rooms upstairs with more downstairs.

The boys went out shooting beforehand and met us at her grandparents house to set a minnow net. They used the minnows they caught to catch fish which worked because they caught some woppers!

We headed down to the fair and walked around for a bit before the rodeo started. There was tons of booths, shows, and they had a petting zoo. There was a bull there that was absolutely huge! The interesting thing was how docile he was.

 He almost has the face of a lion a little bit.

 We had to lift this board picture up to even be able to put our faces in it!

 After we got some terribly overpriced hamburgers, we got to our seats for the bull riding championships. It was a little non-climatic considering the name of the event. I think the whole time there were only three or four people that even stayed on long enough to get a score.

There was one rider that made the event a little exciting. He was riding one of the biggest bulls I've seen at a rodeo. He had been riding only a few seconds when he got flipped off and I'm pretty sure he got stomped on. The rodeo clowns got the bull away from him, but he was out cold and was down for a good ten minutes. The eventually got an ambulance and took him away. The rest of the show was fairly injury free.

All he was wanting the whole day was a funnel cake and he finally got one!

Sunday was fairly relaxed. We went to church, came home and had some lunch. The boys went down to Brennan's grandparents house and Brennan, Lainey and I stayed here and watched a couple movies. 

We were sitting there after the movie had finished when all of a sudden Lainey started crawling! Not only was I there when she was born, but also the first time she crawled. I love the fact that I'm there during big moments! 

The rest of the night we played a nice game of poker where Ethan came out victorious. We finally called it a night and they left the next morning. We're so happy they came up to visit and spend time together. We can't wait until next time!