Off to the Fair

About a week and a half ago now the Johnson County Fair in Gardner, KS. Neal and I headed down there with some friends (Nick and Lauren and their boys) to wander around and see what all that is going on. While there they were they were having dirt bike races, so we could hear the motors revving up and smell the racing gas, oh how that brings back some awesome childhood memories going to the races and watching my dad race! Then we headed to see the ducks and the the rabbits.
 

A little while later we went over to the show arena where 4H was showing their sheep. They are sure into the showing. They keep them warm with snazzy t-shirts and nicely styled with black spray paint on their legs and some air spray so their newly styled hair would not move.



Then we saw a guy wielding a chain saw carving a log into the shape of an eagle. Next to that there were some of his other creations.


Before we left Neal had to go over to where they were selling homemade root beer and get some. But instead of getting root beer (Which I absolute do not like) he got cream soda. Yum home made soda!


And what do you need to wrap up an fair filed evening? Ice cream of course so we headed over to Sonic.

Some Good Ol' Antiquing

This weekend I decided to continue (well really start: I have had the idea in my head for some time I just needed to start executing) a decorating project that I have been working on. So I decided to go and look for antique picture frames and drag Neal along with me.

He was extremely thrilled to join me as you can tell.

Once at the antiques mall we walked up and down all the aisles. I was looking for picture frames. Neal was just playing with everything. The first thing that caught his eye was Star Wars memorabilia.

There were a ton of fun signs with witty sayings, lots of furniture and in general just a ton of random crap.
 
After several hours I found 2 frames that I really liked. One that I will put one of our wedding pictures in and the other I put a picture of Neal's Grandpa Abbott giving Neal his first hair cut.

I do have to say that my first real antiquing venture was a success. Now I just have to continue to keep my eyes open for some more antique frames so I can keep adding to my project.

My mid- mid-life crisis...

This last Wednesday I decided to make a huge change. I got a hair cut.







Not just any normal hair cut. This hair cut included an over 11 inch decrease in the length! First it was sectioned off into 4 pieces, rubber banded and then chopped off. Then off to get my newly chopped off hair shampooed. And once I had clean hair then it got its final cut. Then I head home... Once home Neal has his eyes closed and would not open them until I told him to. Once he opens them he has this huge grin on his face and the first words out of his mouth are 'Its weird' and then he just giggles! It was too funny. He was not the only one to have a great reaction. Ne-J did not even recognize me. When she first saw me the look on her face was like 'Who is this stranger in my house?'. Then after she smells me  and makes sure that it was me then she was really excited to see me. I do have to say that it is really nice to have such a drastic change with my hair.
And no worries I did not throw all that hair away, I am donating it all to Locks of Love where they make wigs for kids with cancer.

Its been a Hot one....

So over the last 3 or 4 weeks we have had temperatures everyday that were pushing 100 and higher with heat index temperatures of at least 4-6 degrees higher. This last week it finally hit its peak of 110 degrees, oh man it was hot. Then finally it dropped over 30 degrees and we had a high of 85. Hate to say this but its been nice when the temperature is in the low 90's.