Galveston County Fair Cook-off

For the past few years the Hubby's office sponsors a cook-off team and each year we try to go see them at the Galveston County Fair. This year we were supposed to go on Friday night but with me getting back into town late after being out of town for a week and another torrential downpour we opted to stay home. However, Saturday we decided to go out to the fair with the little guy and have some fun.

We walked around and looked at all the cooking team booths, checked out the fair for a little bit. Maddox threw around of darts and got a bright orange dog.

Then we headed back to the cooking tents. By this point they had cranked up the music and after eating a couple cup cakes and bread the little guy started to feel the beat. He danced his little heart out.



He even got a lady to ask him to slow dance. He was a little shy at first but then he decided to take for a spin around the dance floor.

After we left the tents the little guy wanted to do a couple of rides, so we bought a few tickets. He was a real trooper and climbed the BIG slide only for us to see once he got to the top there was no one there to help him out like the last time he went. So Hubby climbed up and they both slid down together. After the slide he took a trip through the fun house and then we called it a night.

Rain Rain Go Away

That is how we all felt last Saturday when a quick trip to the mall before my week out of town turned into an all day event. I have been needing to go get my watch fixed for ages. I had it down on my list for that day. Hubby wanted to go pick up some new shoes so we all went to the mall. We got all of our stuff done pretty quickly but on the way out of the mall it started to rain.

I didn't think it would be a big deal but it dumped buckets of water quickly. We were on the I-45 feeder road headed home and the water was rising fast. Normally we would have taken the hubby's truck but little guy was asleep in the backseat when we headed to the mall so we took my car. I being the nervous nelly that I am got a little worried when I could feel the water under the car. We decided to pull of the road and wait for the water to go down.... not knowing this storm would last FOREVER! The little guy fell asleep again so that was good news. The bad news we had to wait 3.5 hours for the water to go down enough to be passable. There were about 10 other cars waiting with us. One guy got impatient, left too soon and flooded out his car. Making everyone else waiting even more patient. Little guy woke up during our wait and asked if we were there yet! We all got a good laugh out of that. Can I just tell you 3 people stuck in a non-moving car, with no radio, no a/c, and the windows up in the rain for that long really gets old after awhile. Even though I was a nervous wreck the little guy was pretty good for a 3.5 year old in that situation.

We finally got out of the parking lot and back to near the house. All the entrances to our subdivision were totally flooded over. People were parked on the sides of each of the roads. We hadn't eaten in awhile so we decided to go grab dinner and hopefully the water would go down and we could get to the house. We had a yummy dinner at the Fish Place. After dinner we found the roads still covered so we decided to go check out the hubby's office. We made it there just fine. Spent a couple of hours there cleaning up a little water that had gotten in and printing off my boarding pass for the next morning to Alabama.

We headed home for a 3rd time. This time the water was still over the roads but we decided to leave the car with the others and walk home. We walked about 2 blocks to the house around the cul-de-sac behind our house. It was 10:30pm when we finally made it home. What a crazy day!! I finally was able to move the car into the driveway about 2am and there was still water on the roads the next morning.

Easter 2009

The mad Easter rush has begun. The school party and egg hunt. Which involved a dozen plastic eggs stuffed with something other than chocolate or peanut butter that is individually wrapped and the last minute buying of treats for the party I wasn't told about. The eggs were stuffed with Starburst chews and rub on tatoos. The peeps, cookies and fruit snacks were purchased at the Target down the road for the party. Then we move on to the planning for the annual whirlwind trip back to Louisiana. This includes the dying of the eggs to be pocked in Eunice.
The trip to the attic to obtain the plastic eggs for the Kid & Dogs Egg Hunt. The planning for the family meals.

The Shoot Out

Uncle Randy and Aunt Debbie came to town this week for their 3 month visit to the Doctor. We love having them come and stay with us, especially little guy. He thinks Uncle Randy is the BOMB. He gets so excited showing off when they come to visit. This trip was no exception. He showed him his toys, told him about his movies, and they even shook their booties and had a shoot out. I hope you enjoy this video of them playing shoot em up!

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First Weekend In April

This was one busy weekend! Granny came in to vist, we went to the Space Race, Ran into Miss Genna at McAllister's and then went to the beach.