today my mom took me & serena to the utah state fair {opening day and $2 admission!!}. if you have never been to the state fair, i highly recommend it! i had never been before and it was so fun! like 100x better than any county fair i've ever been to. we didn't do any rides, but there were a lot and they looked way fun. i would like to go back at night and do rides sometime.

we mostly walked around, looked at the animals, ate navajo tacos and funnel cakes, looked at all of the fun booths, etc. my favorite was looking at all of the fine arts that were entered into the contests. uhhh-mazing. i need to take up quilting. and sewing. and knitting. and seriously WHO KNEW there were so many categories to enter under!!??? scrapbooking? canning? porcelain dolls? you name it, there was a prize for it.

but BAD NEWS to anyone going to see the butter cow. it tipped over last night :( we saw what was left. hopefully the artist puts it back together.

anyway, it was a hot hot hot day and we were soooo exhausted after. serena was so lethargic the whole time because it was so blasted hot. she didn't really care about the animals, but i loved them :) thanks for taking us, mom!!!!!

nine things i love on nine nine oh nine.

1. my funny husband. and this picture of our bowling feet.

2. grandmas who love to babysit serena.

3. texting my friends about pregnancy + babies.

4. baby shower annoucements on my door pretty much every day.

5. sitting at my old desk. {i miss these two screens!}

6. showering and getting ready with the house all to myself.

7. a $5 off coupon for formula in the mail.

8. finding my classy classical tunes mix that was lost in depths of sean's car.

9. a nice cold fountain drink with the good kind of ice {the little crunchy chewable kind!}.

happy birthday, annette.

name the color/s and i'll make you your very own.

{when you have a baby and quit working, you'll resort to homemade gifts, too!}

whatnot.

1. serena is very much enjoying her {borrowed!} exersaucer these days. she was so over the swing.
2. we enjoyed the long weekend, though we didn't do much worth mentioning. i wonder if our friends and family members will be offended that i said hanging out with them isn't worth mentioning? :)
3. choir starts up tomorrow. i'm getting so excited!
4. happy happy birthday, annette! too bad you are puking your guts out. :(
5. goodbye summer, and good riddance! no. acutally it's been quite a lovely summer, i am just very ready for fall. cool weather. fall leaves. halloween. disneyland. thanksgiving. scarves. jackets. and all of that fun fall stuff.
6. i finally got a letter back from my pen pal! check your mail this time, girl! sheesh!
7. i'm loving all the posts on the book blog. way to go book worms!
8. wow this is a lame post. i should end it.
9. i had better make it to at least number 10.
10. ♥ ariel

you all got on my blog today to be grossed out, right? good.

check out this wicked sliver sean got in his finger! notice that it's already partly pulled out. it went down almost all the way to his cuticle. AND there was acutally another one right next to it that went about halfway down, but i didn't get the camera quick enough. and not a tear from sean. what a man, huh? he now understands why the chinese use the bamboo-chutes-under-the-fingernails method of torture. he would have given up any top secret info he had {or made some up} to make it stop!

also, do you say splinter or sliver?

sean says splinter. i say sliver.