Welcome to our Friday Top Five! If you are new to our Friday Top Five blog series, hop over to the very first one, Part 1 to start! It will help you understand our Friday Top Five and the fun we like to share here!
- As we talked about in our blog earlier this week about our Fall Break plans as a family, we spent the first half of our week up in the beautiful mountains of Show Low. When we learned Erica’s parents were moving back to Arizona, and then found out that they would be living in Show Low – we were crazy excited!! Having a weekend escape in the mountains was ideal for all of us, and since they live in Jon’s favorite hunting unit, he was literally in disbelief at the news! We took the kids up for a long weekend to spend some time with Erica’s parents and enjoyed the crisp mountain air! Jon also got a kick out of scaring the kids with Erica’s dad’s bear rug!! One highlight of our time together was an evening drive on the back country dirt roads. We left just before sunset with the goal of showing Brody and Paislee some of the wildlife. Jon had taken them out earlier in the day and they saw some wild turkeys! The evening trip got even better as we came across a beautiful buck with three friendly doe hanging around him! The deer were literally walking across the road in front of us and took time to pause and check us out while we showed the kids! On our way back, we came across a young bull elk with three cows and a yearling! They also hung around long enough for the kids to see them up close! It was a perfect way to end our time together in the mountains!
- We also found out this week that our amazing friends from the Northwest are buying tickets to come for a visit at the end of October! These two are some of the ‘forever friends’ we made during our two years in Washington, and we couldn’t be looking forward to our time together any more than we are now! As fun as Amber and Mikey are, we are sure to have some fun blog stories come out of their week here with us!
- On Thursday we kept the fall break fun going by taking Brody and Paislee to the zoo with friends! They are currently featuring life sized dinosaurs and both Brody and Paislee LOVE dinosaurs, so it was the perfect time to go! They got to spend some time with Erica while Jon worked and met up with their sweet friends Bentley, Nash, and baby Elliot, who Paislee dies over every time we are together!
- Guys, we made a HUGE win this week. This might seem silly to you, but to us it resulted in multiple high-fives in the parking lot! We successfully walked out of Costco with everything we walked in for (and more) for less than $100!!!! We don’t know how, but it happened! We always feel like no matter how little we need at Costco, it’s always $100 or more at the register. We literally got four items a few weeks ago and walked out wondering how in the world we spent $129?! So when we loaded up our cart-full into the trunk – we went full Top Gun with the walking top-to-bottom high five action!
- Fall TV is here!! Reality – we don’t have time to keep up with all of the shows we love 🙁 BUT, we do our best to squeeze them in when we can. We are so excited for the second season of This Is Us and Designated Survivor! We cry all the way through This Is Us, and Erica checks her phone to distract herself in the tense moments of Designated Survivor! We are also watching the 100,000,000th season of Survivor, because Erica is a life long fan who has never missed a season, and Jon is married to Erica.
What shows are you excited about? Let us know in the comments section below! We’d love to hear from you!
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