Sunday, September 27, 2009

A Fantastic Day at The State Fair!

We spent our day at the State Fair of TX today. Today was opening Sunday, and the crowds weren't bad at all! It was a little hot, but all in all we had the perfect day!

Cade took this one of me and the little ones

Sam putting safety wristbands on the kiddos

traditional Big Tex photo

and again...so upset that Carson hid behind me...didn't even realize he was doing this! ugh!!

ready to have a fun day

car show!

Cade with the Transformer Camaro

Carson loves that the Transformer symbol was on the wheels!

racing remote control cars at the car show

watching dancers...the girls really got into this!

the dancers

posing with my guys!

playing in the yucky fountain

Sam and I...the State Fair was our first date...the day after we met October 18, 1997...here we are 12 years later, and we have gone each year since then...I think that's kind of cool! ;)

Cade was being a photographer for Mom and Dad, as the little ones played around us

watching the "Sham Wow" demonstration (the absorbent towels from the infomercials)

We were sold!!

the girls proud of our new "Sham Wows"

Sam in the new 360 "Z"

Cade and I sharing a caramel apple...not sure why I'm making the weird face!

getting sleepy midway though our adventure!

Food and Fiber Pavilion...my all time fave!

Cade and the TX Tech watermelon

Elsie was celebrating her b-day!

Carson petting the baby

Sam and his fair treat...a pickle...always healthy!! ;)

the dog show

watching the dog show

dog show

Car testing out a saddle

a GIANT pig!! He weighed 1,100 lbs.!

petting zoo...Emma and Carson


feeding the camel

heading to the midway....our last stop!

the kids chose to do the fun house...it was 50 tickets, or $25 for everyone to go...this proved to be the only "ride" they did!! So pricey!!

fun in the fun house!

the girls were a little nervous! They held tight to Daddy!!

the boys came out of the fun house covered in bubbles!

fun times!

Daddy and the girls

this looked kind of good to me, but I passed!

This was the "scary house" ride that I used to LOVE as a kid...exactly the same as it was 25 years ago! Nobody would go on it with me! :(

Our last stop was a game on the Midway that we didn't win! By this point the little ones were BEAT and all wanted to win a prize! However, no more $ was to be spent, so we quickly made an exit and ended our fun day at the fair! We'll be back next year!!

2 comments:

da momma said...

12 yrs?!?Goodness! Good job guys! Your family is precious! miss yall whit

Shawna Nicholson said...

Could have done without the nasty shot of the pig :) but other than that...looks like ya'll had a great time! :) We will be going sometime this year...during the week!
Also, I just noticed the comment about Cades party on my blog. Corbin has a soccer game at 4pm, so we won't be able to make the party. :( I already forfeited one game, so I can't do that to the boys again. I hope Car isn't too upset! Remind him that Corbin will be having a Ninja Turtle party on the 17th! :)