Mormon Synchronized Swim Team

Donelle sent this you-tube link. I LOVE it!!

The Gardners Take on the State Fair!

This year we decided to enter items into the State Fair. Since we had potential ribbons we also decide to go to the State Fair. We have only gone twice since Cole and I have been married these last 16 years. Jason and Nick barley remember the last time. The Hendricksons got us some free passes and therefor Cole was more aped to go. Nana and PopPop decided to come meet us to see what we won and to hang out with the grand kids. We had such a good time and I think the kids are hooked.

 
Trevor, Ryan and Erik trying their hands out on milking a fake cow.

 
Erik and Ryan on the freaking expensive bumper boat ride.

 
Erik on a mom-canical bull ride.

 
Erik on the way home. He finally won this ugly orange shark. It only cost $10 to win. Not bad considering the $10 corn dogs.

More State Fair Wins.

My friend Kelly has had her children put items into the state fair for years. She has tried to get our family to do it as well. This year she and her mother finally convinced us. Kelly's mother, Mary Ellen, was in charge of the craft section this year. We had so much fun making and putting together our items to take. We won some ribbons and had a great experience. We are definitely hooked now and have come up with a game plan for next year.

 
I won 1st on my "101 things I love about you". Thanks to Donelle for the idea and push to make this. I even got a special ribbon for it. I also won 1st for my salsa!

 
I had Alene put her decoupage craft in and she won 2nd place!

 
This is Kelly's daughter Nicole. She made this fabulous quilt and won 1st.

 
We worked on a quilt to demo how to do it. The boys were not happy but they tried. I don't think we were really qualified to demo this.

State Fair Winners!

The boys were especially proud of their winning projects and were Cole and I.

 
Jason won 1st place in print making and 3rd in collections. He put in our Disney pins.

 
Trevor won 3rd for his snickerdoodles. He got HM for his tote bag and for a decoupage craft.

 
Ryan won 1st for his molasses cookies and HM for his ceramic pig.

 
Nick won 2nd for his Australian magnetics and he suppose to be in the Spam contest Oct. 25th.

This "media fast" was not my idea!

Our loving primary has asked all the kids to do a media fast this week as conference is this weekend. Nixing T.V., videos games, music, you get the idea.I was not too excited for this and decided to just half my kids T.V. watching and no video games. Cole is even listening to the Book of Mormon on CD in the car as he takes the kids to school.
(I know, I was surprised too!) I thought this was a nice compromise. Well it seems this fast was meant for me.
So this week my "real" computer is dead and is in Cole's capable hands to fix it, eventually. So now all ipod music, all my pictures, ect is on that. So I haven't been blog hopping or anything else but only able to check my e-mail. (I'm on Cole's work laptop) Also my phone died this week and so no cell phone when I'm out or texts and the likes. I had no idea how much I am tied to these two things. So, I'm doing this media fast however unwillingly.
Hope I'll be able to blog some pictures soon.