state fair of tx 2011

Today we went to The State Fair! It was fair day for multiple school districts, so that made it pretty crowded, but it was manageable! We normally take a day off of school and go during the week, but with Caden being in junior high it's hard for him to miss football, and he and I both have heard that the makeup work is horrendous! So, anyhow...today was our fair day. We skipped out on the Midway due to the crowds, and we did a few different things that we don't normally do. The one thing that I'm sad we missed out on was our annual Big Tex picture. We didn't come upon him til the end of the day, and we were all way too tired to have to fight the crowds to get a picture with him. Oh well....there's always next year!!

One of our first stops was The Food and Fiber Building. Here we saw Borden's Elsie the cow and her baby, we got free and ice cream, and we were each even given an Oak Tree sapling to plant!

We tested out a new golf ball, and got some nail art done on our fingernails!

We almost waited to see this cow be milked in a milking demo, but it was taking too long!

We enjoyed looking at all of the cool things that people entered into the creative arts contest! Carson LOVED all of the Lego stuff!

And the girls loved the more girly stuff!



We got to see the scene made from butter!

We got yummy snacks like chocolate covered strawberries...

and cotton candy

Carson and the girls posed for silly pictures...

Emmy chose chocolate covered strawberries too.

We went into The Hall of State and saw some really neat things, like the 1st margarita machine!!!

A replica of The Alamo, weapons from The Republic of TX days...


and we even saw Santa Anna's vest!!!

Cade had a funnel cake.

The kids played pianos!

We had a little bit of fun at the car show before we headed to a really late lunch at our favorite Chuy's on Knox-Henderson.


We walked down to Pottery Barn Kids after eating, and the girls spotted their favorite books!

What a great day!!! We love the state fair!!