Fall Fun

Last week I took a couple of days off work as a treat for getting my website up.  (Check out www.american-ins.com for the new and improved American Insurance website that I have been working on like crazy for the past few months.)  I went to Idaho so I could maximize the amount of fun I could have in a few short days.

Thursday morning Tyler and Bryce took me shopping for M&M's, juice boxes and white bread.  We needed M&M's for the cookies we were going to make and juice boxes and Wonder Bread for a picnic with our friends from Boise.  Ashlee and Jaimie + kids came up to Mountain Home and we went to the Pumpkin Patch and the Bruneau Sand Dunes.  We climbed sky high on bales of hay, went for a tractor ride, and ate a lot of Oreos.  Perfect.

That night Ashlee and Sara introduced me to the Flatbread Community Pizza Oven.  So, so good.  I always feel like we should call ahead and warn the restaurant to expect a party of 3 with exceptionally loud and raucous laughter.  They figure it out pretty quickly though. 

I spent Friday with Tyler, Bryce and Tanner.  We made cookies at like 7:00 in the morning (because that's how long the boys could wait to get going) and had Unhappy Meals at the airplane park.  I say Unhappy Meals because the cheeseburgers I ordered didn't end up being PLAIN and 3 of the 4 of us had meltdowns over it.  Good thing Tanner is a good sport.  Thanks buddy!

Saturday I got to watch Tyler and Bryce play soccer.  This is their first season on a soccer team and I was very excited to watch the kiddos follow the ball in a slow-motion clump of kids.  I loved watching them try to do jumping jacks during warm-ups.  And, let's be honest, Bryce is just there for the oranges at half time and granola bars at the end of the game.  Probably the highlight of the game was when Tyler came over to the sidelines and started emptying the pockets of his coat of the 29 action hero toys he had stuffed in there.  The kid is a great runner though.  You would never had known he had half of the playroom weighing him down.

It was a great weekend.  Thanks to my Idaho friends and family for always making me feel welcome.