fair, football and festive fall fun

The state fair was here this week.  I don't love the fair, but the rest of the family does, so we go. 

Jason's cousin Josh loves the fair and gathered all the cousins before they got started and gave them each a substantial amount of money to make their rounds through the fair.  

Emmy's first stop was a turkey leg; her favorite.  

Bryce headed to the games and won ALL the prizes. 

The gang's all here (minus Ms. Brenda - Josh's husband).

I'd say they had a successful night spending an exorbitant amount of money!

We spent the afternoon in Blacksburg on Saturday.  

We hit the bookstore first so Bryce could get some Hokie merch and then we tossed the football on the drill field. 

Friends of ours gave us 6 tickets to the game.  We had hoped to bring Bryce's friend Charlie (his family gave us the tickets) but he ended up having baseball.  I ended up putting together a small tailgate for us and it was so fun.  

A night game!

Dreaming of the day he'll be here as a student.

I always love the marching band's fun formations.  They did the state of Virginia, HOKIES, and the VT logo.  

We hosted youth group tonight.  Our youth minister wanted to paint pumpkins, so I ran with the theme.  What better way to kick off October!  I had to post a close up of the "mummy dogs" because they were too cute. 

We have quite the artists.  

Last week was cloudy, cool and drizzly.  The sun finally came back this weekend and it warmed up and was delightful.  I'm not ready for cold weather.  Even if it is crip fall air.  I like summer better!