On The Go!

It felt like we were hardly home this past weekend.  Saturday morning we left home pretty early to get down to the Farmer's Market.  We had to drop my van off first to get some work done and while we were doing that it started pouring rain, which ruined our Farmer's Market plans.  We were going to meet my mom and the Cathcart's downtown too!  Bummer!  Instead we went carpet shopping to pass the time until the van was done.  We are in major need of new living room carpet...so, off to Lowe's it was.  When we were done there, it was still raining, so we hung out at the Cathcart's and played for awhile.  We had a quick lunch, got the van, and then headed home so sis could nap.  Once she got up, we all got ready and headed back to West Des Moines for Taste of Hope.  It's an annual party put on by our church, which is just amazing!  We went to church service first, which you could either do indoors or outdoors, then we ate some yummy grilled hot dogs and hamburgers before taking part in all the free festivities.  Indoors they had an arts and crafts room set up and outdoors they had tons of inflatables, face painting, petting zoo, funnel cakes, mini golf, etc.  It was great!  We took sis into the petting zoo so she could "feed" some goats and see some chickens and even a pig!  We didn't stick around for the fireworks, but I heard they were awesome!  Even though there are around 8,000 members of Hope, we always feel right at home.
Sunday we ventured over to Grimes to visit Grandma Emerson.  We haven't seen her in quite awhile, I know it was before Alexandria was crawling because I knew I hadn't been concerned about her getting into anything.  She has A LOT of nick knack items, which are so enticing to a mobile baby!  Grandma Emerson is doing very well and was happy to see us.  The rest of our day was spent doing yard work...oh how our yard needs SO much help!  That's a whole other topic of conversation.
As busy as we were this weekend, we didn't get many pics because I forgot the camera in the van when we went to church and since we had to park across the street, I wasn't going back for it.  I need to remember to leave it in the diaper bag at all times...cuz we can't forget that!

Can't have enough of these!!!

Priceless!!!

Like I said.