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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

State Fair 2012

This past weekend, my parents came up for a visit and to make their 1st trip to the State Fair of Texas.

We got there shortly after they opened and the first thing we noticed, was that Grace spit up sometime on the way there. Yikes! It was bad enough that we didn't notice, but we also didn't have a spare outfit because the kids had been playing with the diaper bag earlier that week and pulled all the clothes out. Oops!

So we cleaned her up the best we could and headed inside. We headed to the Little Hands on the Farm area. The kids both really liked it and had fun riding the tractors around. They spent their "money" and we got them shirts (mainly so we could get Grace out of her stinky shirt).


The Farmers

"Cheese"

Tommy driving the tractor

Grace taking her turn


Farmer Grace

Tommy and Grandma getting a carrot


After that, we hit up the barnyard area. The kids loved looking at all the animals and Tommy even fed a few of them.

We didn't really get any of the new fried food this year and instead opted for the traditional fair food.

Tommy and Grace dancing to the live band

Tommy helping push Grace around

The kids with Grandma and Grandpa


Since we wanted to ride a couple rides and they were on the other side of the fair, we all rode the Sky Ride over. My parents kept the kids occupied while Tom and I rode one roller coaster (called the Crazy Mouse). It was crazy! Tommy ended up riding the monster trucks with Tom and the bumper cars with me. He was being a little wussy on the bumper cars and didn't want me to hit anyone - haha. Grace rode the little dolphin boats with me and she loved it.

Tommy and Tom driving

Grace loved the ride

Tommy got upset after this - I wasn't allowed to hit anyone

On the way home from the fair that afternoon, Grace had another accident. Poor baby - I don't know what was up with that.

Other than Grace being sick, we all had a great day at the fair.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Date Weekend

A couple weekends ago, my parents kept the kids and Tom and I made the most of it.

Friday night, Tom and I went to Choctaw for a little gambling. For the first time in a while, I actually won some money and covered most of Tom's loss - haha!

Saturday afternoon, we decided to go to Landon Winery in downtown McKinney for a little wine and some people watching. It was fun (and a little hot).




That night, Tom surprise me by taking me out to dinner at Silver Fox. Yum!



Great weekend.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Grapefest 2012

A couple of weekends ago, our friends Byron and Michelle (and their 2 girls) came for a visit and to keep up our tradition of going to Grapefest.

Tommy and Madison liked holding hands


We decided to split up the wine tastings again, with Michelle and I taking the first session and the guys taking the last. We do it that way, because the guys are able to get in a lot more drinking than us - not really sure how that works.
The girls


Tom and Byron kept the kids entertained watching live bands during their shift. The kids loved listening and dancing to the music.

Tom & Byron

During our shift, we fed the kids and took them to ride a few rides. Tommy and Madison had a blast riding rides and chasing after each other.

Face painting time - Tommy got a football

Grace got a heart

Tommy riding with Madison

Grace liked waving at them



Someone liked dancing


Grace sneaking Aubrey's water while she was sleeping

Tom being a goofball - or maybe I really was too heavy

Finally got him to take a normal picture

We ended up staying until 11:00 and finally decided to head home.

Here are a couple pictures from Friday night...

Grace wanted to hold the baby.

Tommy and Madison hanging out on the couch. Future Mr. & Mrs....hmm!


We ended up staying until 11:00 and finally decided to head home.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Singing and Jamming

Grace loves to sing - here she is singing "Baa,Baa Black Sheep"

She also likes "grooving" to the music


She's such a little cutie pie!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Busy, Busy, Busy

The last couple of weekends have been busy and I haven't had a chance to blog about them - so I'm combining a couple of things in this post.

The Sunday after Kylee's birthday party, we were invited to a suite at the Frisco RoughRiders game. It was still pretty hot outside, so it was nice to be able to go inside whenever we got too hot. Tommy and Grace also enjoyed running in and out the door and playing with the other kids.

Tommy and his finger watching the game

Grace enjoying a hot dog bun minus the hot dog


Tom posing with the mascot 

One of the many in and out moments with Grace



Mommy and Gracie

Tommy and Daddy

Tommy flirting with Mia while eating his cotton candy

Tommy running the bases after the game (he tried to sneak in a 2nd time - but they caught him)

Last Saturday, Chris and Chuck invited us over to their house for grilled "Make Your Own" pizza. Tommy and Charlie had a grand time and Grace loved playing with all of Charlie's toys (and boy does he have a lot).

The boys staying away from Grace

She didn't care - she just played by herself

The boys fixing things

Rolling out the dough


Grace even took a turn rolling out the dough

Grace reading Elmo

Only good picture of the 3 of them