Friends, chuch callings, bumps, bruises and more...

Well this has the potential to be a long post, so brace yourself and consider grabbing a snack before you proceed. We had a great week and lots of fun of the Labor Day weekend. We started the week by having Mexican BBQ (our personal favorite) with some friends from Nebraska, Ashley Cleverly and Erin Lee and their kids. Ashley's parents live near Idaho Falls and Erin is in Wyoming just a few hours from here. It was so great to have some friends in the area and get to catch up. We haven't exactly made new friends in the area and had almost forgotten what it was like to "hang out", so it was very exciting to have them here. And on Friday, my dear sweet husband was kind enough to stay home with Kinley and I had a shopping night with Ashley and her mom...very, very fun, and great to enjoy some adult conversation.

Then for the weekend, it was of course the kick off to college football, hurray! I guess it actually started with an inury plagued premier by Rich's Utes (tear tear). We spent Saturday cleaning and watching quite a bit of football. Even Kinley got into the action. She wore some red pants to root on the Huskers, and she even went all out clapping with the crowd. However, most of the teams received applause from Kinley, she just claps when she hear clapping.

On to Sunday. The day started out with Rich and I receiving church callings (even though nobody had our phone number). We were called to be Primary Workers and will be teaching the 5 year olds. You can't see my face, but it looks a bit like a deer caught in the headlights. This should be a fun challenge for us, neither of us have ever been in Primary before, but we're excited to teach the kids at church and some how juggle Kinley in there too. Then towards the end of church, Kinley was with her daddy and she fell (like she does all the time) and unfortunately she bumped her head and got her first bruise and goose-egg on her forehead. You can't tell from the picture, but it was a pretty big bump.



And finally, Monday. We decided to take a trip to the Pocatello zoo. Consider us extremely disappointed. The zoo was fairly small, though compared to the Omaha zoo, it didn't really stand much of a chance. The cages looked lovely, they just all happened to be missing their animals. We did see some grizzly bears and some big horn sheep, 2 elk, 2 buffaloes, and some birds. The grizzly bears looked more depresesd than any animal I have ever seen. They did manage to scare Kinley to death though...I guess suicidal grizzly bears have that effect on a kid. We managed to walk the entire zoo in about 45 minutes, but it was a pretty good work out, very hilly. Now this weekend, we are off to visit the grandparents in Utah and are sure to have another enjoyable weekend. Go Huskers and Cougars (and a small go Utes for Rich)!!!