Lazy Labor Day

It doesn't happen often - but Kyle and I actually took advantage of a 3-day weekend to ... STAY AT HOME! That's right. We didn't travel for once. No road trips, no planes, no visitors ... we just stayed at home, enjoyed each others company and played around in Nortwest Arkansas.

For those that follow our blog regularly, you probably could have guessed that we hit up our local pizzeria, Gusano's, on Friday night. Nothing beats it. We plan to take on the 30 inch pizza challenge (they are now accepting teams) just so we can become part of their decor and get our picture on the wall. Only in America.

We took care of some homeowner duties (less than blogable,) took the boat out for a cruise (you've all seen it before) and cooked some good recipes (if only this thing was scratch and sniff.)

On the more exciting end of things, we celebrated our adopted state and rooted on the Razorbacks in their first game of the season.

Tailgating is universal and Kyle and I generally fit right in on game day ... but this time, I had to put in a little more effort. Football in the South is more of a fashion show for the ladies than I'm used to - they do their hair, wear heels and cute outfits and lots of bling. I even saw a few dresses! Quite a change from the midwestern beer-guzzling, ponytail and sweatshirt girls up North. I did my hair, put on a cute red tee and some bedazzled sandles and blended in pretty well, if I do say so myself.

We had some good seats, courtesy of our good friend, Greg, in the snazzy striped polo. Chaney and Greg are two of our best friends from the Gmills office down here and they happen to be locals (Greg from just west of Memphis, and Chaney from just across the border in OK) so they are good at making sure we soak in the Arkansas flavor.

In our nice view of the field, you can also see our nosebleed seats from the game we went to last year ... the very upper deck on the far left (where no one is sitting ... they know better.)

After the game, we caught a country concert by the Randy Rogers Band, from Oklahoma. Really good tunes, but even better t-shirts. Here I am after the show with my new threads.

"This Guy Digs the Randy Rogers Band"

We also took advantage of the non-100-degree weather and checked out the War Eagle Caverns. We took an hour long tour into the caves. I had to keep a close eye on Kyle ... somehow, he always ended up with the other kids exploring every corner each time we followed our tour guide into a new cavern. Here he is, contemplating darting through the opening to see where that light is coming from. When we add a mini-Kyle to the family, we'll have to keep him on a leash.

Apparently, this area of the country (and more specifically, these caves) are full of bats. I have to admit, they are actually kind of cute when they are sleeping. Had this guy let go of the ceiling and started flying around, I would have a much different opinion.



We're pretty talented with the arms length photo of ourselves ... Kyle holds it perfectly and we finally learned that we don't have to lean our heads to the middle to fit in the frame. We're even super cute in a deep dark cave, huh?!?

A perfect long-weekend at home ... farewell to the hot, humid days of Arkansas summer ... welcome football, cool(ER) weather, fall colors and all around our favorite season!