Late August

I'm doing great at documenting my life in relevant time on this blog. (Sarcasm)

Mid to late August was really busy! Like really, really busy. In mid August Molly and I ran in the Be The Match 5K, which benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We wore our Farmer Strong t-shirts in memory of Zach. We were the only people there that we saw in his shirts, so hopefully next year we can get together a group of people from home to come and run in this as well. 

#zf11

 Bowie is just a hoot every day. I started follwing this girl on snapchat that draws really awesome pictures using her cat. I tried a few time and this is about as fancy as I could get. :)

Bowie likes cake pops.

 The weekend before I went to Lima I attended a conference in Washington DC for the fraternity I advise. Molly paid for her flight there and stayed with our older sister and nieces. We went a day early and we were able to take the girls out for a day of fun for their birthdays.

We went to a working farm that had a lot of animals. It was fun to be there, but also funny because we overheard so many people say things like "are those chickens or turkeys?" or "look at those cows!" when they were looking at a herd of sheep. -_- I was lucky enough to grow up knowing about farm animals and agriculture, even though I by no means know everything (not even close), but it's still just crazy to me that people don't know the difference between a cow and a sheep!

There was a mommy and daddy peacock and 6 babies! This is the daddy!

The girls posing with the sheep!

After the farm we had lunch at Chick-fil-a and the girls played on the playground after their lunch was gone. Then we went to a pottery painting place. Charley loves dinosaurs, so she painted a dinosaur and emery painted three little figurines. Molly and I each did a coffee mug. **Note for the future: don't get something that will take longer to paint than what the kids are painting.

The fraternity conference was great. I learned a lot and it was really helpful to take with advisors from other chapters. That Saturday night, one of our alumni members who lives in DC got the OSU reps (and Molly) tickets to the Nationals game. I'd never been to a Nationals game before, so that was fun!

Selfie in our seats.

Behind home plate after the win!

After the game we drove around DC to see some of the sights. We went to the Capital and then parked by the Lincoln Memorial and walked to the Korean War Memorial and the MLK statue. I'd never done a night tour of DC, so it was cool to see some of the sights all lit up.

#nailedit

Closer

Our conference was at the National 4-H Center, so my room had these cute decorations!

Little people, take 2

A few days after we got back from DC, Molly and I went to Louisville for the Kentucky State Fair for her job.  A company her company does business with sponsored a concert and we staffed the give away stand. Video projects that she worked on also were played throughout the evening and right before Easton Corbin sang, so that was cool.

Great sponsor t-shirt colors.

Reese up on the big screen.

Easton majored in agriculture, I work in agriculture, perfect match!

Post concert stadium photo (I love stadiums!)

 After the concert, we got to meet him as "concert sponsors". I ditched my neon shirt in favor of my floral one. I didn't want to look like a traffic controller the first time he met me.

<3

Labor Day weekend I went home for a few days to relax with the family. One night we were bored and feeling a little restless, so Molly, Tyler and I took a trip to the new Rural King store in the next town. And we took a selfie with a deer in a deer stand. Is it hunting humans?

So that leaves us at the beginning of September!