Texas State Fair

Taylor and I picked up the kids early from school on Friday afternoon and headed to Dallas to the Texas State Fair.  It was the last weekend to go.  We ate yummy Fletcher corn dogs, nachos, cotton candy, ice cream but no fried s'mores, or fried cheesecake.  Wish I could have tried them. 

 

 We visited Betsy the cow for Bordon Milk products.  The prettiest cow you've ever seen.

 We went to a doberman dog show.  They did lots of tricks.  It was cute.  Callie loved it. 

 We visited all the animals.  Baby zebras.

 They were so mean and boy do they bite.  I saw it in action.  He about took this kids hand off. 

 Taylor being brave.  That's his hand.

 The kids loved this place.  They provide aprains and baskets and you get to plant seeds, feed sheep, milk cows, and water pretend trees. 

 Callie milking a pretend cow.  There was also a simiulation to see what it actually feels like for the cow to be milked. 

 Callie being a dork! I think she felt to old.

 This is real!  Crazy how it looks.  Taylor says there is a mirror somewhere to make this illusion. 

 Waiting for Kelly Pickler

 When she walked out I was like, "who is that!"  She shaved her head for her friend who has cancer.  She still looked great.  We only stayed for 3 songs.  The kids were exhausted.

Our first visitors to our new home!

My sister, Britney, 2 of her 3 kids, and my mom came to visit on conference weekend.  It was great they could come even just for a few days. 

 

 We happened to have our hair done the same way.  We went to the grocery store and we lots of stares and questions about us being twins.  Like when we were young. 

 We enjoyed some mother/daughter shopping and a fun little ride for the kids.

 Britney's baby, Dallin is 11 months old.  He is the cutest thing ever.  Callie was a great babysitter.  We couldn't stop kissing him. 

 Cousins playing at the park.  It was a perfect, fall, crisp day. 

 Sydney and Paige having fun in the bath.  They are 8 months apart but Syndey looks like she's 4 and Paige 2 not almost 3. 

Even Preston wanted a play mate in the tub.  He just wanted a boy, he didn't care how old.

 At home depot every 1st Saturday of the month they have a kid craft available.  They made fire trucks and painted them.  Paige picked purple.

 Dallin and me hanging out.

 All the cousins early in the morning.

We all went to Callie and Preston's soccer games.  We froze to death.  Of course I forgot Paige's coat. 

Pumpkin Patch

I met my sister-in-law at the Flowermound Pumpkin patch on a Tuesday a couple weeks ago.  We went on a hay ride and took pictures with fun characters.  It actually cooled down a lot and we wore sweaters. 

 

 Jumping on a cute pumpkin bounce house.

 

Paige and her cousin Kierra.

 

 Paige loves Mickey Mouse. 

BNSF Family day

 Every September BNSF has a Family day in the back of the campus.  They have tents with food, crafts for the kids, raffle tickets, and train displays.  It is a lot of fun.  We showed up early and the kids were able to do all the fun activites without waiting in line.  We had lots of yummy dilly bars from Dairy Queen and hot dogs, chips, and bbq sandwiches.  A fun Day!

 This is the first thing Callie did.  Preston was not interested.  She enjoyed it. 

 Go Callie!

 Then the guy in the orange needed an adult to go on the other trampoline and no one was willing too.  I said I would be up for it.  It was really fun and it was free, so why not!  The guy even taught me how to do a back flip.  Taylor of course didn't get it on camera.  But it was cool to say I did a flip. 

 Callie thought it was neat that we were doing it together. 

 This year they had a small zip line.  Preston waited in line with Taylor and Callie and found out he couldn't ride with his Daddy.   He was out.  Callie did great and wasn't scared until she hit the wall at the end.  But it was padded and no big deal. 

 There she goes. 

 Lots of different bounce house's too. 

 They dressed up in BNSF gear and were able to move cranes with a remote control and knock over cones. 

Preston moving the crane to knock over the cone. He did really good.

 

 Callie's turn.  The man helping let Callie take control.  She had a harder time knocking over the cone. 

 

 Onto crafts.  They painted wooden trains with sharpie paint pens.  Not messy and the kids sat there for an hour.  They didn't want to leave. 

A miniature train city.  A lot of work to set this up.