Free Tickets Anyone?

Anytime someone offers us free tickets to a baseball game, it is only polite to accept the offer.

We spent a fun evening down in Idaho Falls with Richie and Linda grabbing a bite to eat and then hitting up a Chukars game.

I'm not sure how, but we ended up in the geriatrics sections and were the youngest people by about 40 or 50 years.

I have to admit though that they were some of the most entertaining and hilarious folks to people watch.

Annual Lamb Fry 2011

Pretty sure the Martinez family is the only people I know who hold a lamb fry every year.

What is a lamb fry you ask?

Well its where you sit around chatting with family, drink an ice cold soda from the cooler, and fill your plate with fried pieces of lamb, dutch oven potatoes, fresh green beans from the garden, homemade scones, corn on the cob, and zucchini brownies.

Yep....doesn't get a whole lot better than that.

(Mandy, Grandma Martinez, Me, Adri, and Marlayne)

It rained on our parade

But really.....

At the beginning of August, there was an International music and dance festival being held in Rexburg. They have a parade each year where the dancers from each country are showcased in a parade down main street. It was a little overcast when we got there....and then it started to sprinkle a little bit. But we figured if the parade was still going, we had better stay and show our support.

Show our support we did. It started down pouring within minutes, and there was no escape. We tried to last as long as we could but then it got really windy and the rain hurt as it pounded our faces and bare arms.

Finally they stopped sending the dancers down the street, so we thankfully jogged to our car for some much appreciated safety from the storm. But it was too late. By the time we got home, Brian and I were dripping wet....