Friday, October 10, 2008

Ode to Fall Festival week

What a lovely week its been. I shall summarize the happy events of this week for you in this bulleted list (mostly for Libby) in a semi-chronological order starting with Monday.

  • Monday off work
  • Did not clean house as planned
  • Did not do laundry as planned
  • Fall Festival for lunch with Elijah, Mom, and Jacob
  • make fun of Jacob for giant disgusting hickey on his neck! sick!
  • Run in to some old friends
  • find out high school bff had baby girl. don't know her name yet.
  • Ate smoked chicken sandwich from festival
  • Gave Elijah his first pronto pup
  • play date with Michelle and Allison
  • Tuesday off work
  • walk in park with Carla, Kim and kids
  • nice talk with Carla after walk
  • Did not clean house as planned.
  • Did not do laundry as planned.
  • spend rest of day at Grandma's house
  • Pizza King Stromboli for lunch
  • Wednesday afternoon off work
  • Did not clean house as planned.
  • Did not do laundry as planned.
  • sausage burger from festival for breakfast
  • lunch at Grandma's house - steak, shrimp, baked potatoes, salad - YUM!
  • feed Elijah his first taste of steak - he loved it!
  • shop for birthday gifts - fun!
  • work all day Thursday, but...
  • long lunch at festival with Mom, Elijah, Grandma, Grandpa, Keith, Paula, and Gracie
  • Ate the following: corn on cob, 1/2 steak sandwich, cheese sticks
  • gave Elijah 1/2 steak sandwich
  • watch Gracie go on rides... consequently feel nauseated
  • enjoy watching Elijah squeal with delight at the choo-choo train
  • meet up with Michelle, Allison, Carrie, Ellison, and Manny at Fall Festival after work
  • watch Manny eat the following: sausage burger, corn on cob, corn fritters, Stromboli, half cheesecake-on-a-stick
  • work 2 hours Friday morning
  • take Elijah on his first trip to the zoo - ever. With Grandma and Grandpa, Keith, Paula, Gracie, Aunt Michelle and Zoe.
  • get tired from walking up all those crazy hills!
  • put Elijah down spiral slide (first slide experience)
  • watch shocked look on Elijah's face after landing at bottom of slide! (Keith caught him)
  • take a zillion pictures
  • watch Elijah mesmerized by giraffes and tiger
  • back to work at 12:30
  • eat pork chop sandwich and fried green beans for lunch from festival
  • spend evening at Mom's house with family
  • Elijah crashes at 7:00 - out like a light!
Gosh, I'm seeing a pattern here: Most of what I do is eat. disturbing. And now, please enjoy some photos of aforementioned events. Thank you.
We'll start with some from the zoo today...


Gracie Ashlyn Jones - 2 and 1/2 yrs

Gracie and her pappy (my uncle Keith)

Zoe and her Momma (my aunt Michelle)

Elijah and me

Watching the otters from a tunnel







Elijah's 2nd annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival!

Here we are last year this time...

first ever pronto pup!

Miss Gracie - the rockstar!

the Grandmas!

1 comment:

C said...

Sounds like a wonderful week:-) Can't wait til next year.

On a side note...baby's name is Rebekkah.