Celebrating Banks 3 month old Mark

 We thought it would be very fitting, if we celebrated Banks's three month old mark by taking him right back to where he was (in the womb) three months ago.  On June 15th (just 2.5 days before he was born) we decided to go camping.  I really wanted to get in a camping trip before he was born.. so at 39 weeks we packed up and went up to the back side of Squaw Peak.  Which is exactly where we went here again...exactly 3 months later.  Banks didnt sleep too great, but we still had a great time.  I made some yummy  tin foil dinners...and we had delicious s'mores for dessert.  Luckily it didnt get as cold as I thought..but it still was a little chilly being the middle of September.  Good times!

 The fall colors of all the trees and leaves was BEAUTIFUL!  My camera doesn't do it justice.

 So after coming home Saturday morning from camping, Kelsey and Banks took a  nice long nap.  Then, doing what Hamiltons do best..we decided to head off to the Utah State Fair....pack it in!  We like to go go go...and do as many fun things in a weekend as we can.  We're proud to say Banks has not slowed us down much, and has managed to keep up :)  So we went with our friends Spencer and Maree and their two boys to the State Fair.  The following pictures are from there.

 This needs some explaining.  We heard from several people we had to stop by Jon's lemonade stand for the famous deep fried treats.  We said it sounded very strange but we love to try new things.  So, $5.00 later we had ourselves 5, deep-fried-artery- clogging-oreos.  I don't know if people talked it up too much or what...but we were very very disappointed.  Everyone said it was so awesome...from the deep fried twinkies...to the deep fried cheesecake/oreos/snickers.  Big thumbs down.  It tasted like the oreos were dipped in a corn-dog batter.  uuuck.  Oh well, we tried em.  Our friend tried the deep fried twinkie and didnt love it either. 

Now, here's something to get excited about.  Jeff got me for mothers day this awesome waffle maker.  Well, forgetting to spray the waffle maker, I was frustrated when I had to 'peel' my waffle from it.  But then!...a light bulb went on!  And I must say I'm quite proud of myself.  I took the two sides of the waffle (that I had to pry off the waffle maker) and decided to make a 'stuffed' waffle.  Now thats what I'm talking about!!  Jeff and I should have set up shop at the state fair!  And, on top of this looking delicious..I made the fresh cream into COCONUT fresh cream.  MMM-mmmm!  It was sooo good!

I can't wait for Banks to be old enough to ride a pony.  Do you think I could strap him into the baby Bjorn and take him for a ride now!?  "Look at all the cute ponies" I told Banks.  I said next year Mommy would let him ride!!