I Love Family, Friends, and Fall!

What a great weekend I had! It was filled with a bunch of "F's"! It consisted of lots of much needed Family time, amazing Friends, and beautiful Fall weather! Can you believe that it actually got up to 90 degrees in NW Iowa on 10/8!? That has to be a record ;)

Mark and I left for Fort Dodge when I got off work on Thursday afternoon and made it up there in pretty good time. We met up with my parents and chatted with them awhile before I made my depart from Mark(my parents "kidnapped" me and brought me back "home, home" while Mark stayed in Fort Dodge as he was in a wedding on Saturday!)

Friday my mom, dad, and I spent some quality time together just enjoying the beautiful day. My mom and I did our walk in the morning, then got ready for the day and was off to run some errands! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon shopping and getting in on some good bargains on such a nice afternoon. Friday night we grilled out and enjoyed the outdoors. I just love Fall :)

Before we knew it, it was Saturday and that meant time for them to bring me back to Fort Dodge to hang out with some of my favorite friends! When we got to Fort Dodge, we went to the Apple Orchard since it was such a gorgeous day and got some good apples!

 But more importantly, that is where I met Hayden James!!

Isn't he such a sweetie! He couldn't keep his eyes open! Ya know, the life of a baby is pretty rough, after all! :) We enjoyed hanging out with him for the afternoon/night!
We all met up at the Sports Page for supper and refreshments :)

Minus Mama Wendi and Hayden (Hayden was sleeping in his carrier and Wendi took the picture!)
After Mom and Dad made their departure to head back home, we just had to hit up the Darriette for some PUMPKIN ICE CREAM!!! (I don't care how full we were from supper, it was worth every minute of it!)

Darc and I shared a medium cone, we ate most of it! :)
We ended up spending our evening at a local bar/restaurant where we met up with many of our great, long lost, friends!

Here you have Me and my Bestie!!! I heart this girl. She is such a great role model and inspiration in my life.

Mark with some of his best guy friends! Jason, Kyle, Jason, and Loren

And last but not least, me and my Handsome Hunny after the wedding he was in that night.

All in all, it was a great weekend with family and friends!!! As always though, time just slips away way too fast :( We are already looking forward to our next trip up to Iowa!