Summer winding down...

LASER TAG!!

The girl's team!

After Bess' viewing we were all ready to go out and do something fun and decided laser tag was a perfect option. Mareesa, Ashley (Ry's sister), Brekka (Kaid's girlfriend), Kaz (Ash's boyfriend), Kaid, Ry and I all played; the boys killed us, but only because Kaid cheated, he would hold our guns down and just shoot our vest until he had to recharge his bullets. We had a great time!! Sorry the picture is so blurry it was the fog.

BESS' FUNERAL

The service was one of the nicest ones i have ever been to, many happy memories were shared and the great accomplishments of my great-grandmother were relived. She was such a wonderful person, the other side is so lucky to have her and all of her amazing talent. We will miss and remember her!

I love this pic, don't have i have the cutest siblings?!

My cute grandparents!

On our way to the cemetery.

This is the lid to Bess' concrete box that the casket goes it (i forget what it's called), i thought it was really pretty though.

FINALLY:
Ry and I have been looking for new furniture for our living room for a while now and finally found some!!

Us driving to Logan to pick it up!

The chair and ottoman, cute huh?

The couch, so much nicer than our old one!

The love seat, obviously already getting some lovin:-)

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

I always get so excited when the fair comes because i know fall is just around the corner. For Labor Day weekend Ry, Mareesa and I went up to Idaho Falls to see the Titanic exhibit at the Museum of Idaho, it was amazing!! I was sad that we couldn't take any pictures, i tried, but Ry got grumpy and there were lots of museum workers walking around. I was obsessed with learning about the Titanic when i was young and it was amazing to see actual artifacts that have been retrieved from the resting place of the amazing ship. At the beginning of the tour you got a ticket with an actual person who was on the ship with short bio and at the end you find out if you lived or died, Ween lived and Ry and I both died (my wife lived, i don't know why they didn't give you gender specific tickets). They had a chandelier from the first class dining room, it was still so beautiful; there were dining plates that were found in perfect rows because the wooden drawer that held them rotted away on the ocean floor, they had leather wallets and really cool old money, they even had port hole windows with the signature star that they had extracted. I was just blown away by how well some of the artifacts had been preserved. Did you know that in today's money it would cost $78,000 for a first class room!?! It really was a beautiful ship and i'm so glad we got to see the exhibit before it left.
After we finished our Titanic tour we headed down to Blackfoot for the Idaho State fair. We went through all the commercial buildings, saw all the animals, contemplated purchasing a pinball machine (we played for hours and i'm sure we will eventually cave), bought some super nice pans all made in the USA, and of course ate lots of really yummy, unhealthy food that you can only get once a year at the fair! Our food choices this year included: tiger ears, indian tacos, fried cheese curds dipped in ranch, home made curly fries, ice cream, scone nuggets dipped in honey butter, cheeseburgers, cotton candy, and i think that about covers it. I know what you are thinking, how in the world did we eat all of that, we went up to the fair three times while it was here.

Happy with our night at the fair...

So we wasted $10 trying to win $50 at this little stand. This is a bike that steers opposite and the goal was to ride it 15 feet, only to the orange line. Ry and i both tried, i thought, it's a straight shot it shouldn't be that hard, right!? WRONG! It was so stinkin hard, needless to say neither of us made it and we got three tries each and came out ten bucks short.

This would have been a better picture, but i was standing in the middle of the street trying to stop traffic to get it, didn't work out so well, but you get the idea.