A Very Rainy Birthday!

Carson and Avery had a fun "cowboy" birthday party this year, though it didn't go quite how mommy planned it. This year I decided we were going to make things easy and have their party somewhere else. I booked the Owen's Spring Creek Farm for their party. They have a cute petting zoo area where the kids can feed the animals and a hay ride. I was really excited about having the party there and of course it poured down rain all day long the day of their party. So sad. We ended up moving the party to our house. The kids had no idea and didn't realize that we changed their party last minute, they only cared about seeing their friends and blowing out their birthday candles. So it all worked out!

Here's my cute little cowboy and cowgirl!

Thanks to my sweet husband and mother in law we were able to pull it all together Saturday morning, and I think everything turned out pretty cute!

I turned my dining room table into a "decorate your cowboy hat" station.

The kids loved decorating their hats!

My attempt at a group picture in their cute cowboy hats!

Uncle Ryan and Aunt TT

Eating some lunch. Carson and Avery were so excited they got to have their own Dr. Pepper's.

Carson and Avery love their DD!

I made some makeshift hayrides on our patio with our wagons.

I had a few takers!

Not quite the same as a real hayride, but it worked!

Carson and Avery had been looking forward to blowing out their birthday candles for about a month. We'd been to several birthday parties during the month of September, and they were so excited that they would be the ones to blow out the candles today!! They weren't shy at all while people were singing happy birthday to them, they loved it!!

Yum!

We finished up the birthday party with a little playtime out in the rain!

And some present opening!

The rain boots and umbrellas Shane and I got them turned out to be very fitting presents for this rainy birthday!

Happy Birthday to my sweet three year olds!!

The Fair 2012

We love the State Fair of Texas!! We look forward to it every year and this year we got to take DD with us. We continued Carson and Avery's "birthday week" celebration by going to the fair on opening day which was the day before their birthday. Shane took the day off and we headed to the fair Friday morning. I wasn't sure what to expect on opening day, but it turned out to be a great day to go. We got there shortly after it opened and it wasn't crowded at all! We had so much fun.

We hit up all of our favorite spots. First was the Children's Medical Center petting zoo

I love his reaction to the animals eating out of his hand, it is precious!!

He couldn't believe the goat took the whole cup out of his hand

Then we headed over to the "little hands on the farm"

They were finally old enough this year to really participate, it was so cute!

Of course, we couldn't go to the Fair without getting mommy's favorite, Fletcher's corny dogs!!

And some cotton candy!

Daddy got to have his fun too!

We let the kids play one of the games this year.

They loved it!

And they got to pick out these really cute, and super annoying horns as their prizes.

We finished out our day with a few rides in the midway.

They absolutely loved it and would have stayed there all day if we would have let them.

Here they are on the four wheelers

The race cars 

And the motorcycles

My sweet girl!

See you next year Big Tex!

The Dallas Zoo

Last week was Carson and Avery's "birthday week." Their birthday was on a Saturday this year so we had a whole week to celebrate leading up to the big day! We started out the week with a trip to the zoo with MiMi. On Monday's you get a discount on your zoo admission if you ride the Dart Rail, so we thought we'd give it a try. It was great!! So easy and so much cheaper then driving and paying for parking. We got on the train right at George Bush and it took us straight to the zoo without having to change trains. It was about a 50min ride, which I was a little nervous about, but they did great!! Carson was so excited to ride the train. It however wasn't quite what Avery had in mind, she kept saying, "Where's the big red train? This is a bus." Ha

It was a hot day at the zoo, but the kids had so much fun!

We saw the penguins

Lions

My favorite, the giraffes

Waiting the feed the giraffes, they weren't too interested in eating that morning

We finally got them to eat our lettuce

A cheetah (I think)

Elephants, zebras, and more giraffes

Avery impersonating the monkey's

I love this turtle statue

My sweet babies!! They do love each other (sometimes)!

Carson passed out within 5 minutes of the train ride home, he was exhausted!!

Not this girl, she talked the whole way back, and tried on some of MiMi's lipstick!

We had a fun day at the zoo!!