Monday, October 26, 2009

Bob Evans Farm Festival

This was our 3rd year attending the Bob Evans Farm Festival.  My mom decided to come this year.  We went down Thursday and stayed until Sat night.  Unfortunately, it was not the best year, weather-wise to go.  It rained almost the entire weekend!  We still managed to have quite a bit of fun. 
Every year, our group of campers "The Redneck RV Club" gets bigger and bigger.  We are all family and friends!  It is such a great group.  We eat great and have loads of fun with each other.  The year we even had Tur-por-kin for dinner one night.  What is Tur-por-kin, you ask?  It is a pork loin, stuffed in a chicken, stuffed in a turkey.  Yum!
Our group also competes in the Bob Evans Contests.  Nate and I have competed every year, but never won.  This year, we actually won 3 contests between to the 2 of us.  I won the corn shelling contest, Nate won the egg toss contest with a friend, and Nate and I won the team cow chip tossing contest.  And yes, he was actually throwing dried cow poop and I had to catch it in a bucket and throw it back.  It was fun though. Hopefully next year, it will be better weather.

Busy Weekend Re-Cap

This weekend was crazy busy.  Here is a quick-ish recap.  We went to the Circleville Pumpkin Festival Thursday night with the Hunters.  Ate the following :pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin doughnuts, roasted corn, fresh rootbeer and cream soda and pulled pork sandwich.  Good food.  Saw some HUGE pumpkins and watched a few highschool marching bands.

 
Cool Collection of Pumpkins and Gourds.  Love the warts!

The 1st place winner was very close to breaking the world record!
Friday was a Costume Party.  Nate and I dressed up as the Publisher Clearing House Couple.  It was pretty fun and easy, as far as homemade costumes go.

Had fun making this big check...even has Ed McMahon's signature.
We had to leave the party early because I had won 8th row tickets on the radio to the Zac Brown Band concert.  We were so excited...we really like their music.  Now, we LOVE their music.  It was such a good concert.  They put on a great, harmonized show.  And get this, we even got to meet the whole band after wards and get all their autographs.  Way cool, down-to-earth guys!

 
He was saying "cheese" just for me!
 
Saturday was going to be a stay-at-home, watch-the-game, clean-out -the-garage day.  The May's invited us last minute to come to the game for free instead, and we really couldn't turn down a Buckeye game.  Even though it was pretty cold and windy, it was a great game and we really had fun being there.



Even after all the activity, we still managed to come home and clean out the garage for the next 4 hours!  We got rid of so much stuff and now we have room for both the pop-up camper AND my Jeep!  So excited about that.
Sunday was just as busy as the previous few days.  Church, Choir Practice, Home Teachers, Visiting Teachers, Dinner and games with the Hunters and then a visit to his dad who is in a re-hab center for double-knee surgery.  No Sunday Nap for us this week!
I love this time of year.  There is always so much going on.  If you made it through all that, congrats!