Fair Day 2012 with the Family

This beautiful Sunday my family met up at the State Fair of Texas. Now if you have never been to the State Fair of Texas you are missing out! It's a really big deal! It's the only State Fair in the country to include a full blown auto show, there is the Cotton Bowl where the Red River Rivalry goes down between Texas and Oklahoma...this year Oklahoma won :( But anway, back to the greatness of the fair, it showcases "Birds of the World", has a gondola ride over the entire thing, a 212 foot ferris wheel (the largest in the North America), and a 52 foot tall Big Tex who unfortunately burned down a few days later, one day after his 60th birthday. We are just glad we got our family picture the day we did! Everything will be ok though because next year Big Tex will be back bigger and better than ever!

Here at the fair there are a TON of animal shows, including horse, dog, pig, bird and cows....the list could go on forever. There is also a petting zoo. Pictures from the day are scrambled throughout.

Petting zoo:




















Outside the auto show, this is where the water and laser show is:

Chance and I with Big Tex days before he burned :(

Chance and I on the biggest ride there at the fair. Stratosphere- 200 foot tall swing ride. Days later this very ride would get stuck up in the air almost at the top for over 2 hours because of lost power. I'd say we all went on the right weekend because we got to see Big Tex and rode the ride successfully!

Chance just adores Jax!

There was a really cool Chinese Lantern Exhibit!

In the cow showing area. So many cows and goats, and it smelt really good! Ha NOT!

Dr Pepper's energy drink- VENOM!

Family photo with Big Tex!

Boris the pig weighing in at a measly 1201 pounds! Holy cow...I mean holy pig!!

Ferris wheel at night from the Midway

Jax really liked Big Tex

A little joey at the petting zoo

Stratosphere at night

Stacey and Mandy on a ride in Midway during the day

Here are the foods we had while there:

Plus a friend bacon cinnamon roll! I was stuffed and exhausted.

Great weekend with an awesome family and awesome friends!

Top Golf with Bostonians

The next weekend our friend Matt from Boston, had one of his friends from Boston in town. Her name is Mackenzie and I just love her! We all decided on Top Golf since she had never done it before. When we arrived she said that they didn't have anything like this back home. I'm glad she liked it!

If you haven't been to Top Golf I suggest you get off the computer and go right now. It's seriously the most fun thing to do ever! At one point I hit the ball into the blockade thing on the ground in front of you and shot the ball behind me where all the people are standing...whoopsies!

Chance- The Professional




















Lindsey- The Crazy One

We stayed until dark so we could see it all lit up. Very cool!

Chance and Matt are so excited to be at Top Golf haha

Chance teaching me how to improve my swing....shouldn't I be giving him tips seeing as I won ;)

Chance, me, Mackenzie, and Matt

Mackenzie and I. Love her!

How many people does it take to get a ball out?
This is the thing I hit with my ball once

Sam is in town!

My good friend, Sam, who has lived in Houston for awhile now came in town this weekend. I was so excited to see her since it's been almost a year! The last time I saw her was when I went down to Houston for her birthday last mid-November.

We met a group of friends at BJs in Lewisville on Friday night.
Karina, Courtney and I were there first.
Karina and I are now both brunettes!

Our group :)

My bestie!

After dinner, Karina, Courtney and I went to Public House where Chance works to see him and hang out for a bit.

I'm so happy Sam is back in town even if it is for just two days. Saturday her and her boyfriend Jared, met Chance and I at my parents since the whole reason they were in town was for Jared's triathlon in Rockwall. Since it was at the harbor and so close to my parents house we stayed the night over there.

The next morning Sam and Jared went to the harbor very early and I went later around 8:30am. The roads were completely blocked since there were so many people on bicycles so I had to drive down back roads and neighborhoods to get to the next town just to get on the highway and come back down to the harbor. My mom was following me because she had to go to the airport that morning and was really pushing it since we had to drive so far out of the way!

Overall, Jared won FIRST PLACE for his guys division. Yay go Jared! It was really fun being up there and being immersed in that lifestyle with all those healthy people haha.

UNITED WAY

Today at work we were able to give back to UNITED WAY by donating and they catered a big lunch for us! This company is awesome.

Little did we know at the time but the U.S. was about to experience a lot of damage on the East Coast from Hurricane Sandy so I'm glad to know my donation is going to the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund! Chance's Uncles in NY actually were hit really bad. They were without electricity for about 2 weeks and when the generator ran out of fuel they had to walk to the gas station and wait in line for hours in hopes that by the time they got up to the pump that there was still gas left. They had some pretty bad damage to their house, pics below...

United Way out in our amphitheater at work

UPDATE: Kevin and Louie's house living room is now completed.
This room looks so comfy and that couch is to die for. I could see myself curled up on it with a good book, glass of vino and a fire going!