Texas State Fair

We had sooo much fun at the Texas State Fair last weekend with our friends Ryan and Alicia. Drew turned into a 9 year old as soon as he saw the ferris wheel! Here's our handsome man scoping things out and trying to figure out where we had taken him.

Here he is playing with Ryan...

..and me eating with Alicia! Let's be honest, the fair is all about the good naughty food. And especially this fair...they fry everything! Snickers have been my favorite thing lately and this one was fried! They also had fried butter this year but we passed on that one.

Check out the giant turkey leg that was as big as my head! It was so good!

We had to work on this thing together and still couldn't finish it.

Drew had more fun on this ride than Kade did...he came rolling around towards the end and had kicked Kaden out and hopped on the horse to get a few rides in for himself. What a fun night!

And another great night was going to the Zac Brown Band concert. They are our new favy right now and the concert was awesome!

Birthday Parties

Happy Birthday Caitlyn and Abby!

We had a great time at our friends house celebrating the birthdays of their two girls.

Kade loved running around and playing with all their new toys!

Another fun birthday for our buddy Emma! Kade loved this place and we had a great time with everybody.

And why not just throw in a pic of the first poop in the bathtub. It was disgusting but so funny when Kade turned around, saw his duke and freaked out! I think he thought it was alive and climbed out of the tub as fast as he could!

We Love Visitors!

We've been so lucky to have some really fun peeps come out to see us here in Dallas over the last few months! Our first visitor was my sister Kristine who came for a whole month! It was great to have her and we appreciate all her help while she was here.

Aunt Julie and Uncle Elliott came out for the weekend of the big BYU game at the new Cowboys stadium. Julie always spoils Kade and brought him a fun little barn with little animals that go inside but Kade couldn't help try it out for himself.

We had to hit up the mall for a bit and here's Kade chillin in the little kids play area. Could he be anymore comfortable in his own skin?

Not so much a BYU fan myself but we had a great time going to the game. It was really cool even from the very top row!

Drew was in heaven just checkin out the new Cowboys stadium!

We went back again a few days later to check out a highschool football game. There was a team there from Utah but I can't remember who it was!

I was sooo sad when they left...this smile was a little forced if you can't tell. Thanks so much for coming guys!

Drew hit up Houston the next weekend with his bestest buddies Brooks, Abe, and Garrett. Despite the looks on their faces here I think they had a good time.

Okay...maybe a little too much of a good time!

What a proud fan!

Brooks and Abe came back up to Dallas for another day so Kade and I were glad we got to see them for a bit. Here we are in Dallas at a pretty good mexican restaurant. Kade was all over the place and I was glad to have these two to keep him entertained.

Abe is seriously so cute with Kade and you can see Kade has taken quite a liking to him!

We also went and checked out the area where JFK was assasinated. Drew's doing his best to reenact the scene from the grassy knoll!

We're so thankful for Drew's great buddies and it was so fun to see them!

Then we got to have Uncle Seany out the next weekend!

Sean and Drew hit up some fun games, we ate some good Texas barbecue and got to see our nephew Corbin while Sean was here. It was such a fun weekend and Kade had a great time bonding with his uncle!

The next week my favorite asian, April, came up from Houston with her cute friend, Shauna, for the weekend! It was sooo fun to have some girl time...especially with these girls!

We ate a lot of food, watched movies, and girl talked it up. Kade bawled his eyes out when they left!

Kade's Favorite Activities

We pretty much don't go anywhere that doesn't have stuff for Kade to climb on unless we bring an arsenal of distractions. So we've found some activities that he absolutely loves since it's either too hot or raining for us to be able to spend much time at the playground.

Kade loves The Little Gym and has learned some new moves he's pretty excited about. And it's been a great way to get to know other moms with kids the same age.

There's a Mom N Tots group at the rec center too that's super cheap and Kade loves it. He sleeps so good on these days!

Kade Pics

These are from about 5 months ago but I wanted to post some of our favorite pics we had taken of Kade:

Texas Times!

Here are a few moments from the last few months down here in Irving, Texas!

I got a little sick when I first got here and my sisters sent this sweet cookie with frosting that actually says "you need frosting" on it! Kade and I ate half the cookie within about 30 minutes!

I thought this was funny...Kade fell asleep and only then did I notice he had a fruit snack stuck under his chubby neck!

Kade is really starting to like to color...he's totally a lefty!

This moment seriously brought me to tears! So I put an old post of the Blue Rhino that Kaden has been obsessed with since he was a little baby. The nasty thing had been chewed on, was missing an eye, and would get all sorts of crap stuck in it no matter how much I washed it but he loved it. I brought it to the airport with us when we were flying out here to Texas and when I got on the plane, the Blue Rhino was MIA. I panicked and realized we must have dropped it just outside the gate. So I took off back up the ramp and started looking around. I got my head ripped off by the staff and was escorted back on the plane. I was holding back the tears! The Blue Rhino was gone forever! After we'd been here for a few weeks, Drew said he had a surprise coming in the mail. It was a smaller replica of the Blue Rhino! But Kade was so excited and really doesn't know the difference. Drew didn't know it was so much smaller so he ordered a bigger one too and now Kade has a mom and baby blue rhino that he is obsessed with. They are both on their way to looking as ragged and germ infested as the last one!

We also got to have our nephews come stay for a night and play video games with Drew! Kade was loving them!

This was the probably the geekiest day of my life...we went to some video game event and Drew was stoked out of his mind! But my little sis was here and we still had a good time!

We needed a second car and Kade had a great time doing a little car shopping!

The last week or so we've had some crazy rain storms! It's actually been really fun for the most part...good thing we're on the third floor!

And my favorite thing in the whole world to do...go to a good concert! Drew got us tickets to the Brad Paisley concert in Dallas. It was sooo fun! It poured that night and we went home soaking wet!

I love this...Kade has learned how to pray and this is how he tries to fold his chubby arms! And such a serious look on his face!