Getting in the Halloween Spirit

Last week Brad was out of town. Friday we decided to bake him some Halloween cookies. Landry had also been invited to a Halloween craft party at our neighbors house. Landry was excited about being included by the "big girls". It was an all around fun Friday: Daddy was coming home, we baked Halloween cookies and hung out with friends.

The dough is made and the cookie cutters are ready...

now it's time to roll the dough out.






Here's the roller Mommy.





Tah Dah. We later iced the cookies with orange icing as we ate them. Landry even put white, black and orange sprinkles on some. Then we went next door.





Mirror ball, pumpkins, cookies, chocolate milk and decorating first initials. Landry decorated her L with purple sparkly and tiger material.






Blowing bubbles just like the big girls.





One of the girls found a neat looking bug in the sand.

There was a little playing in the sand.





Last but not least Saturday morning we tested out our fog machine.

Texas State Fair 2010

Yesterday was perfect for going to the state fair. Brad was able to take off early from work and the weather was in the mid 70's. This weekend is the last weekend so off we went!

The first thing we did was see Mother Goose.

Landry was kind of into the rhymes.




After Mother Goose we went to the rabbit house. There were all kinds of rabbits. Landry informed us that this rabbit was the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.

These brown rabbits were the biggest rabbits we've ever seen.

They took up their cage from one side to the other. Look at the other rabbits in their cages compared to these rabbits.

Cute little fluffy rabbit. Landry couldn't resist feeling the fur. We managed to get out of the rabbit house without Landry asking for a rabbit even once.

It was super neat to see, feed and pet a giraffe.

We were able to get very close.

This reminded me of "Hook 'em horns".

Landry wanted to feed not the goats, this goat in particular. The goat didn't mind.

As mentioned in the post before this one, naptime follows lunch. Landry is telling Brad to be quiet, it's naptime.

She wasn't so sure about feeding or petting the one hump camel. I smile at her facial expression.

Moving on to the alpacas. They were kind of cute...minus all of the stuff in their hair.

I didn't catch the name of this type of goat. There may not be a specific name for them. They had 3 horns. This one had 4.

3 horns.

Brad and Landry made friends with this one...

he wasn't scared of us at all.

She wanted her picture taken here yet wouldn't let me take her picture with some of the animals. Go figure.

Farming at the fair. This was neat. It required using our imagnation; the food and animals weren't real. We watered peach trees then took a peach. We fed the chickens and took an egg. We planted seeds and took a vegetable. We fed the cows and took a carton of milk. We fed the sheep and took some wool. Lastly we went to the farmer's market to sell our goods. Landry earned a "dollar" for her hard work which she spent it on some Cheetos.

Howdy folks. Hope you enjoyed the farm. Farming made us hungry and it rightly so. It was supper time. We got our supper and headed for the pig races where we could sit down and eat with a little entertainment.

We finally made it to the cars. Well, some of the cars.

Someone must have just cut Landry off in traffic.

She sees someone she knows (not really)




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Brad had had them before. Landry and I tasting Dippin Dots for the first time. They were yummy. We enjoyed them while waiting on the parade.

The "princesses" in the parade.

The stilt walkers had cool costumes.

One of the floats.

Another stilt walker.

I asked her if she was having fun.

A self taken family photo before the hydrotechinics started.

The pig races.

Surprise! We're in Mississippi

Thursday October 7th Landry and I left for Mississippi upon hearing that my dad, Poppa, would be having triple bypass surgery that Monday. I thought it would cheer him up to spend time with Landry. Unfortunately Brad was unable to make the trip with us. This meant I had to be super smart about traveling the 8 hours with just Landry and myself. We left Texas Thursday and drove as far as West Monroe, Louisiana. Some of our good friends welcomed us to stay with them. We woke up Friday morning and were back on the road by 8. We arrived in Clarksdale right at lunch so we picked Poppa up and went to The Lunchbox. It was very tasty. After lunch we went back to Poppa and Nanna's so Landry could take a nap.

Saturday morning: breakfast at McDonalds (except for Poppa, he's been trying to watch what he eats).

Saturday afternoon we surprised Gran and Laylay. They had no idea we were in town.

Saturday night we had supper at The Stone Pony. The pizza and salad were so good! Landry has taken a liking to salads.

Nanna, Skip, Poppa, me and Landry. Can you tell how into this picture Landry is?

Sunday morning we said our goodbyes to Nanna...




and Poppa.

Before leaving Sunday we had lunch, BYB of course, with Gran and Laylay at Laylay's house. Naturally after lunch it's nap time so Landry made sure Gran took her nap.

We truly enjoyed our trip to MS.

We're praying that everything goes well with Poppa's surgery.

Happy 3rd Birhtday Landry!

The weekend of October 2 we had Landry's 3rd birthday party. It was nice having friends and family at our house to celebrate what have been 3 amazing years. Landry is and continues to be such a blessing in our lives and a true gift from God. Can you believe she's 3 years old now?! Planning for this party started a while back. Landry wanted a Hello Kitty party. I was great with that theme- it's very easy to make Hello Kitty anything...or so I thought. The cake was a little trouble. Everything else was perfect. The party wasn't Hello Kitty overkill, there were pops of H.K. here and there. Landry's birthday party was third times a charm!

The cake at 11:00 the night before. I wanted to cry. Landry's wonderful daddy went to Wal-Mart and bought another box of cake mix. He stayed up and made her cake. Yay Daddy!

I woke up the next morning, made icing and iced the cake. Brad and I make a pretty good team. I can't take credit for the black, yellow and hot pink icing. The nice people at Kroger decorated the cake on the spot that morning.

One of our very crafty friends, Tamaron, made custom white chocolate lollipops just for Landry. Thank you Tamaron.

The sweets table.

Pizza anyone? See the pop of Hello Kitty below the clock? It says "You can never have too many friends".

Strawberry cupcakes with homemade buttercream icing.

A quick family picture before singing Happy Birthday to the birthday girl.

Lighting the candle...

Landry listening to about 50 people singing Happy Birthday to her.

Blow the candle out and make a wish!

Yay!

Aunt Bug and Uncle Duhduh made it to the party. Jack is taking a break from bouncing.

It's safe to say the bounce castle was a hit with the kids.

The girls must have run the boys out.

Landry's school friend Eden and Dustin.

Bouncy, bouncy.

Friends enjoying the beautiful weather.

There are some of the boys! Gavin and Tyler taking turns on the scooter.

Yay Katie!

Megan, Katie and Tyler.

Emmy smiling for the camera.

Caitlin getting ready to leave.

Gavin giving the birthday girl a hug.

Eden thinking about having another cupcake.

Party girl Ellie.

Tyler's turn to give Landry a hug.

There was plenty of food and fun thanks to everyone. Thank you Laure for making the yummy Crunchy Asian salad, Robin for making the cheese dish and Tamaron for making lollipops. We continued eating these the rest of the weekend. Thank you to everyone that ate pizza so that we weren't left with a week's worth of pizza. Thank you to all, whether you were here or not, for making Landry's birthday party such a special occasion!