Carving Pumpkins

Since Halloween is just a few days away, we decided we should get the pumpkins carved.


Paige did an excellent job digging all the guts out. She thought it was very fun but a little "gross".


They turned out very cute. We have a cat, a vampire and a regular jack-ol-lantern.

Kansas Speedway

Josh and I made our trip to Kansas for the Nascar race.

On the way down Saturday, we stopped through Des Moines for some "family time". We finally got to meet our new niece, Kyla. She's adorable! After we left Brian and Sarah's house, we met Charles, Alyse and Ella for lunch at Carlos O'Kelleys. We had a great lunch with them.

We went for supper at Smokehouse Barbeque in Independence, MO. http://www.smokehousebbq.com/ It was so good. Our motel was only about 6 miles from where we stayed on vacation so Josh knew his way around the area pretty well.

On Sunday morning we were up bright and early to head to the track. We thought the traffic would be alot worse than it was, but we were so early I think we missed the biggest part of it. We had plenty of time to hit all the merchandise trailers for t-shirts.

I stood in line about 45 minutes to meet and get an autograph from Jeremy Mayfield, my favorite driver. (no comments from any Nascar fans on here, I already know how everyone feels about him) Of course, Josh and I realized about an hour from home that we had forgotten the camera, DAMN!! Oh well, I got one on my phone.

The race had 2 rain delays but we had a great time anyway. I'm really glad we went.

We made it to Nebraska City, NE before Josh was too tired to drive any further. We were still about 3 hours from home.

We finally made it home about 2 today. What an exhausting (but fun ) weekend. We've talked about making this our yearly anniversary trip.