Nothin' Quite Like...

A good ol' farmer's market!! When we heard the local farmer's market had some of the best Filipino food around we were all over it! Nicholas served his mission over in the Philippines, and looks for any opportunity to enjoy some of the wonderful food he loved there. It is tricky to find! Before we could even get to Nic's food, we spotted the snow cones and just had to have one...

That's the way. Lots of syrup buddy...

Finally we made it to this little joint...

There it is... in all it's glory. Nic was very impressed, and was in heaven as he scarfed down his entire plate.

Me on the other hand could not resist my beloved asiago cheese bread. I get it every time! I think I had devoured at least half of the loaf before we even hit the road. Mmm... I could go for some right now.

Obviously there were loads of fresh produce. Rylie was loving it! Ironically, we ended up buying some fresh corn from a farm that is located right down the street from us. Hmm, I guess we could have saved ourselves a trip to the market, but it wouldn't have been near as much fun!

Parker's highlight of the day (besides the snow cone) was watching these bees hard at work. He thought it was about the coolest thing ever, and I don't disagree. Nothin' quite like fresh honey right off the comb either! We returned home with some fresh corn, bread, raspberries, full tummies, smiles on our faces, and a bar of organic handmade carrot spice soap (I am addicted to organic soap right now-it's our fav). Very fallish! I smelled it all the way home!!

Our Trip to the Candy Factory

We kept ourselves on the hop this summer, trying to squeeze every last ounce of fun we possibly could out of the time we were given. In the end it was a great success, and I am sorry to continue going on and on about summer when it is clearly fall!! Bear with me, I am almost caught up. In some of our summer adventures we visited the Sweet's Candy Factory. They give free tours of their facility, and it was very interesting to see how some of my favorite candies are made.

We had the most interesting experience as we drove down to the candy factory. My dad had insisted on sending us with his trusty GPS, since none of us had ever been there or had any idea how to get there. He entered the address and sent us on our way. We were caravaning, my mom and Cassie in the front, me, and then Candace. As we reached our exit we got off and started driving down the streets of SL. Everything looked to be a normal route as we made our way around, until... we turned into a residential area. Hhmm... I thought, but continued following. After all, maybe this huge candy factory is located right in the heart of a small quiet neighborhood? Pretty soon, we made a complete square around one of the neighborhood blocks. Okay, this was definitely questionable. We all just continued on our journey as the clock was ticking closer and closer to our tour time. Finally we made it out of the neighborhood and onto the main city street that we had seriously already driven down (in the opposite direction). Now we were headed back out of town. All of a sudden Cassie and my mom turn into a little apartment complex and pulled into one of the parking spots. As we all filed in to park, we were laughing hysterically. At that point we realized we were definitely lost, and definitely going to miss our grandiose tour of the candy factory. Bummer!! As we sat there deliberating on what to do next, and making calls to find out just where we went wrong, a lady walked out of her apartment. She politely asked us if we could move our vehicles so she could get hers out. We were just about to jump back into our cars and leave when she asked, "Is everything okay?" I replied, "Yes, we are just lost. We were trying to get to the Sweet's Candy Factory." To which she smiled and said, "Well, that's where we're headed, you can just follow us!" We all loaded up, and were off- once again on our way. We finally got there!! Yay! (I think someone was watching out for us that day:)

We got to go through the next tour, with our new found friends. I wish so much I had them in our picture. Here is my mom and sisters, and all the kiddos with our stylish blue hair nets on...

They give you lots of yummy samples throughout the tour, and at the end they have this cute little candy shop that you can buy up candy to your heart's desire!!
Parker really wanted some of this awesome rock candy!
And later that night he was a huge help to his daddy in mowing the lawn... Pretty darn cute if you ask me. Just can't get enough of that little stinker!!

Fun in the Sun

Every summer we have loads of fun swimming at Mimi & Papa's pool. Here are a few pics from our fun in the sun!!

Kaden was doing so good swimming without any help.

Cannon Bomb!!

Goggle Buddies

One of my new favorite pool side snacks... salmon, cream cheese, and capers, on crackers. Weird? Maybe, but oh so yummy!!

Attractive, I know.

There were many a popsicle enjoyed in that there pool...

And lots of quality time spent together...

Until next year...

A Night at the Park

One summer night we hadn't much on the agenda, so we made special plans to meet up with Gramy & Papa, and some of our great cousins for a night at the park. Good times were had by all...

For the big... and the small...
For the handsome...

and the curious...

For the playful...

on the playground...

For big girls on potty breaks...

and dare-devil sliders...

For the brave...

or maybe, not so brave...

For the Mama's...

and the thirsty...

For the practice...

and precious baby boy...

Yes, we were having so much fun we just couldn't stop. So we just had to have our fun-lovin' cousins over for an awesome sleepover party!!

They were running through the sprinklers bright and early...

We made ebleskivers for breakfast... so yummy!

The girls played dress-up, while the boys were engulfed in Lego's...

I feel so blessed to have such a great family, and for all of the fun memories we have made, and will continue to make over the years. Thanks guys for yet another great memory!!