The South Carolina State Fair

The South Carolina State Fair took place last week, so we decided we had to attend. We ordered our tickets online and decided to go after work on Wednesday. Here we are on the way out stopping to take a picture.

Here is Aaron being silly...he claims he is going to hack into my blog account and remove this picture, but I say if he is going to be difficult when trying to take pictures - the end product is fair game. It was a self portrait so poor Kendall was accidentally cut out :(

We visited the many barns and ate a ton (nachos, corn dogs, elephant ears, french fries, candy, pizza, and Mountain Dew). Here is Kendall on the scale in the ag barn. Not sure if you can tell, but she tipped the scales at 22 pounds!

Here is Kendall admiring the chickens. In her hat, we thought these two had a strange resemblance.

On Thursday our old friend Brooks surprised us with a visit to Columbia. We went out to dinner on Thursday night and then all attended a baby shower on Friday night for one of Aaron's coworkers. They will welcome their first baby girl, Madelyn in mid-December. It was a Halloween shower. As you can see he went as the cook and she and Madelyn went at the cupcake.
The hosts went all out with the food and decorations. Here is a profile of the cake...a pregnant mummy. So cute!
Here are the hosts - a nun and Rubik's cube.

I refurbished my old girl scout badge, Kendall went as a strawberry (but, quickly lost her costume as it got really hot), Aunt Erin went as June Cleaver, Brooks as a rocker, and Aaron was a poor sport and didn't dress up at all. We played silly games and Erin was the winner - guessing the size of Heather's belly.

Brooks won the other contest, by drinking the punch out of the bottle quickest.

On Saturday and Sunday we took in football - as usual. I also attempted to buy a rain barrel on Saturday morning, but wasn't willing to wait in the huge line! However, my great friend Megan, who was helping at the event, offered to buy one for me and even dropped it off on her way home. I was also able to meet an old friend who was in town for the weekend for coffee this morning. It was really nice to catch up with her.

Mom, Dad, Gma Alice, Aunt Leighanne, and Peter will all arrive in Myrtle Beach tomorrow morning. We can't wait to see them! I've been busy cooking and cleaning so that we have lots of yummy treats and won't have to worry about anything else but having fun while they are here.