State Fair of Texas Oct 2008

I am trying to catch up on my posts.

We headed to the State Fair this year with my parents. The boys and I had not been to the Fair in 4 years and my parent's had never been. We had some passes from school for the boys and luckily met a someone on the train who gave us free passes for the adults! We thought "yay we saved a little money" little did we know what we were in for once we got to the fair. So we decided to take the Dart train to the fair. The boys were so excited.


At the Train Station


Waiting for the train

We finally got there and decided to get on the skyway first. We were on a mission to find the Famous Corn Dogs.

Mom with the boys on the Skyway

Once we got off the skyway, we were in front of Big Tex. You can't go to the fair and not get a picture with Big Tex LOL


We then found the corn dogs and they were awesome!!! After we finished eating we looked at the cars they had on display. They boys loved getting into the Hummer and several of the other cars. While we were on the skyway, they saw all the rides so we made our way to the rides stopping at different areas along the way. We found the petting zoo and could not believe the animals they had in there. Here a few we saw..


An adorable baby Giraffe


Baby Goats


A baby Zebra

The boys had enough of the animals and were begging to go on the rides. The boys have not been on many rides so we weren't sure which ones they would like. They found a few though..


As they were coming around, Austin was holding on for dear life. But he told us that he LOVED IT!!


Cole rode on this one by himself. He said he felt like he was flying.


Austin rode on this one by himself - literally there was no one else on it but him. He still had fun though.

The last ride we all rode on together. We went on the Big Ferris Wheel. We were up so high and were able to see the Dallas Skyline and all of the fair.


Waiting in line for the Ferris Wheel


View of the fair


The Dallas Skyline

We were exhausted, broke and ready to go home. Mom and I decided we would go next year but we would make sure to save up a lot of money first LOL!!

Air Show at Alliance Airport

This year we decided to head over to the Air Show. This happens every year and we were so excited about going. So we all loaded up in the car to head over. While waiting in line to park, the jets were flying over head and were so loud. The boys could not contain their excitement. We finally got parked and headed to the gates. The planes were still flying the whole time and we had to stop and look every few steps. Once we got in the gates there were several planes for us to look at up close. The boys were in awe.






Our future pilot?




The Jets at the end were so amazing. They put on an hour show. We can't wait to go back next year!!

Walking home from school

We had some really beautiful days so I decided to walk to school to pick up the boys. It is about a 15 min walk to and from. Of course the boys weren't too excited about walking home LOL Charlie sure liked it though. One day I decided to take the camera and got a few shots of our beautiful neighborhood.


This is the creek that runs behind our house.


Cole so excited about walking home


Cole walking Charlie


AJ running ahead

We had such a nice time walking home and we are looking forward to doing it again once it warms up.