Hot Air Balloon Festival (sans Balloons)

We joined some fun friends at the "Hot Air Balloon" Festival at Historic Long Branch. This is the 5th or 6th time we have been to this particular festival and we have NEVER seen a balloon. We understand that the weather has to be just right for the balloons to launch, but we have decided after multiple years of this that they should change the name to just plain old festival. It is fun without the balloons and Reese really loved the pumpkins and hay bale maze. Another lovely fall day.

Reese - 10 Months

Reese turned 10 months the end of September. She is at such a fun and funny stage. Here are some things about her this month:

* She is a screamer. And we hope its a quick phase. She screams and screeches about everything, all of the time. It certainly gets our attention

* Her hair is growing a lot and getting lighter and longer every day.

* She LOVES yogurt, bananas and cheese. and will sometimes try something else.

* She crawls fast and pulls up and cruises around the furniture.

* She has a funny little laugh and loves to play.

Fall Festivals

October was full of fun fall festivals. Like most years, we kicked off the festivals with the Waterford Fair (mama's favorite). It was a beautiful warm day and we enjoyed just hanging out in the lovely little town.

1st Birthday Parties

The end of September marked the beginning of several months of 1 year old birthday parties. The first was Weston, Reese's first new friend and we have had 2 or so a month for the rest of the fall. All of the babies in our mom's group are within 3 months of each other in age and so we are constantly celebrating. It has been so much fun. Pictured below is Lacey and Reese with Kenzie and Weston at his party.

Catching Up

The next few posts will be catching up on the last couple of months of 2011 so that we can start again with the new year and try to keep current. Don't miss some fun ones like Halloween, Birthday party and the Holidays.

Another Stadium

While in Atlanta, we also went to a Braves game. That is 3 stadiums for Reese this season - a pretty great start. She was more interested in reading her book or drinking Grandpod's water, but still, she was there.

Go Aggies

Labor Day weekend we went to Atlanta to see Chris' sister. The reason we went that weekend was because my Utah State Aggies were playing Colleen's alma matter - Auburn and Auburn is only a couple of hours away. The OD's have followed Auburn football for years, even traveling to bowl games, so we made it into a family vacation. It was a HUGE deal for the Aggies to play there - they were the National Champs last year. We were expecting the possibility that USU could lose bad, but instead....they almost won!! They were ahead the whole time, putting up big points all game. It was sad to lose in the last minutes, but SO much fun to be there. There were hardly any Aggies (maybe 50 total) in the stands, so we cheered extra loud. And yes...I sang the Scottsman after every touchdown. Reese was especially cute decked out in her Aggie gear.