My Familia

10/15/13

state fair {2013}

This year was the first time Robert and I had ever been to the fair together and the first time we had taken either of our kids! When we headed out we noticed that this little guy decided he wanted to join us! He literally made it all the way to Hutch (a good 40 minute drive on the highway!) we were impressed!!

The first stop was checking out the livestock. Pigs, sheep, goats, ducks, geese, horses, literally every farm animal! Including chickens -

Daddy did some animal showing back in the day and was having fun pointing out all the different types of chickens he used to own - who knew??

Elena was a pretty brave girl this year!! She even tried the high trampoline jump! She was scared at first but then loved it!

The we headed to the smaller rides. Technically Dom really wasn't big enough for this but the worker let us put him on the inside with Elena. He cried when it was time to get off!!

Elena had a ton of fun with all the rides.

Mommy did too! He he.

Elena even tried the darts!

and some big girl rides that I honestly thought she wouldn't want to ride! She surprised me with how brave she was!

Have you noticed how red our faces are in these pictures?? It was so incredibly hot. This was the temperature on the Grandstand!! What???

Dom was a trooper! And loved the lemonade!

and I finally convinced Elena to ride the water ride with me! She hated every second of it! But we cooled off - lol!

Robert let her get a fake tattoo that I was not too happy about, but she thought the butterfly on her foot was the coolest thing ever. I guess that tells you who the ''cool'' parent is! ;)

Dominic didn't ask for much this day but when he saw the giant inflatable bats he went nuts! So Robert hit up the baseball speed pitch game and won him one. ;)

Finally we decided the heat was enough and grabbed some ice cream and sno cones for the walk out. On the way out we decided to make one last stop at the Lego area. It was so cool!

With two hot and tired kids and two hot and tired parents, this is the best group shot we could get! :)

State Fair 2013 - done! (Hopefully next year it won't be 1,000 degrees when we go!)

10/7/13

Daddy's truck.

One day the kids and I stopped by Robert's work, and he just happened to be working on his big rig! Lets just say two little kids were in big truck heaven!! :)

So fun!!

Now Dom is even more obsessed with trucks!! ;)

10/4/13

Pre-K.

This little sweetie has a September birthday, just like her Mommy. What a great month! But do you know what is not great about this month? A September birthday means that she will not be 5 before school starts,which means she can't start Kindergarten until next year. :( Boo. Especially when she is beyond ready to go! She is so smart and has mastered everything up to and beyond kindergarten already. I was having a hard time with this but then decided to just let go and not worry about it and enjoy that I get to keep my "baby girl" around more for one more year.

She had some homework (which mommy might have forgotten until breakfast that morning! Nothing like starting the year off right, ha ha!) and it is so funny to see her answers and pictures to these ''pieces'' of Elena.

Pink made the cut for favorite color - big shocker there! Strawberries, pancakes and tortillas are the things she likes to eat most. Tic Tac Toe is what she decided she likes to play (I like how both x and o won in this game!). And when I grow up I want to be...yes, a pop star! :) Too funny! I know I will just love looking back on these one day!

and just like that she was off, no looking back!

Until I made her let me take a picture of course. :)

Here's to a fun new school year!!

10/1/13

labor day weekend, family fun

When labor day weekend rolled around this year we took some time to relax and enjoy being with family. The kids love jumping, wrestling and playing ''horsey'' with Daddy. :)